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seoegghead.com — 8 things you can do to improve the odds that your post will get dugg according to SEO Egghead.

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  • inactive, on 10/12/2007, -2/+39I don't know. I thought he missed the key elements. Think this title would make it to the front page? "BREAKING NEWS: APPLE IPOD WILL SYNC WITH UBUNTU POWERED WII"

    Apple, Ubuntu, Wii. Take your pick, it's that easy.
  • leonbev, on 10/12/2007, -1/+14#11: Submit an Apple product rumor. Bonus points if it has a shred of truth to it, but that isn't absolutely necessary for a successful front page submission.

    #12: Submit a negative story about Microsoft. Again, it doesn't need to be completely true to be successful. "Truthiness" is key, though.
  • combatchuck, on 10/12/2007, -1/+13AMAZING! APPLE IPOD WILL SYNC WITH UBUNTU POWERED WII! WITH PICTURES!
  • MaddDog, on 10/12/2007, -1/+12#9: Submit a story about Digg.

    This story only had 27 diggs when I posted this, and its guaranteed to hit the front page very soon.
  • inactive, on 10/12/2007, -1/+11As many times as it makes it to the front page.
  • maffiou, on 10/12/2007, -1/+10You're quite cynical about it all... I like that... kudos to you.
  • Gryffydd, on 10/12/2007, -1/+10Try to fit the word "Amazing" in there somewhere...
  • kbarrett, on 10/12/2007, -1/+9How many times will we have to read the same 'how to make it to the front page of Digg' article?
  • cmw72, on 10/12/2007, -1/+8"BREAKING NEWS: APPLE IPOD WILL SYNC WITH UBUNTU POWERED WII"

    You left out the part where Steven Colbert shows us how all this is possible.
  • bacon_skoda, on 10/12/2007, -0/+6what is the point of digg then? to get popular? the article should be the reason it gets up there. if it doesnt, then it's probably not interesting. If the point of digg is to get on the front page, then digg will start to suck (as it is already).
    Of course, if you point of digg is to get people to flood your google ad filled site, then yes, go all out. Because diggers love that stuff.
  • pbaehr, on 10/12/2007, -1/+7That reminds me. Spell check is another one.
  • kakalaky, on 10/12/2007, -1/+7EXCLUSIVE! BREAKING NEWS! AMAZING APPLE IPOD WILL USE AJAX TO SYNC WITH UBUNTU POWERED WII! STEPHEN COLBERT DEMONSTRATES PS3 KILLER WITH PICTURES!
  • Chigaimasu, on 10/12/2007, -1/+6Try this: Digg's Kevin Rose browses Digg with Firefox on his Ubuntu powered MacBook Pro while playing Halo 3 on a Hacked Wii! With Pictures!
  • GreenLantern33, on 10/12/2007, -2/+6Digg is not a game. It's a news site. The object is not to get everything that you can to the frontpage. It's to get the most interesting/relevant/critical stories to the front page.

    I'm reporting this as lame.
  • pumacub, on 10/12/2007, -1/+5Is it just me, or is this story pretty much about posting a link to your blog in order to promote it? And we know how much everyone loves that.
  • Avalontor, on 10/12/2007, -1/+4I draw the line at videos of 14 year olds.
  • porkstacker, on 10/12/2007, -1/+4I gave up on article submissions of mine ever making it to any pages. This goes back to the FARK.com days of the late 1990s. I don't have time to get caught up in all the politics of popularity and favouritism just to see an important article submission see the light of day. Life is too short to get caught up in all the *****.
  • Stonedonkey, on 10/12/2007, -1/+4From the article:

    "Sending some emails and bugging some friends to Digg you is not gaming the system. It's just savvy marketing."

    And it misses the point of the ***** website, which employs active Digg viewers to promote stories THEY think are interesting, rather than stories YOU want up there so you can get more traffic to your ***** website.

    It worsens the signal-to-noise ratio when you remove the natural determinant. It is inherently artificial -- and ***** annoying.
  • cprincipe, on 10/12/2007, -1/+4"Steve Colbert"
    "PS3 will give you herpes and cancer"
    "Laser Engraving"
  • xtr3m, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3There's no way of getting on the front page without getting around a dozen of 'friendly' diggs.
  • CoolSilver, on 10/12/2007, -2/+5Well thought out. Great advice for any digg submittion.
  • RonaldLewis, on 10/12/2007, -2/+5Probably not. GoDaddy is alright, and they've been good to me. However, the day I can afford my own pipes, I'm bringing everything in house. I just like it that way.
  • elroy, on 10/12/2007, -1/+4'AJAX' is a crowd favorite. It's tough on dirt.
  • MaddDog, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Unfortunately, its a definite requirement to get 10-20 friends to digg your submission. Usually there are over 4000 stories in the "upcoming" section - thats a lot of chaff to sift through if your story has less than 10 diggs.
  • inactive, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3Good point about Colbert. Especially if I could squeeze "PS3 killer" in the title, as well.
  • bigteebo, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2I thought all you needed to be on digg's front page was to be on a segment of the Daily Show. After all, EVERY Daily show segment gets on the front page.
  • TiMMY8765, on 10/12/2007, -2/+4EXCLUSIVE! BREAKING NEWS! APPLE IPOD WILL SYNC WITH UBUNTU POWERED WII! STEPHEN COLBERT DEMONSTRATES!
  • IEatHamburgers, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2Front page in barely eight hours. Maybe they know what they're talking about.
  • billpoly, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Personally, I've started to use Digg as a personal bookmarking system. If I want to keep track of new stories, I post it on Digg or digg a similar story. I couldn't give a rat's ass if other people digg the story or not. Digg and the community around it has gone down the tubes in a big way, so if I can use it as a tool for my own purposes then I'm going to do exactly that.

    Trolls, come out of your caves and start flaming.... NOW!
  • jefbob, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2"BREAKING NEWS: APPLE IPOD WILL SYNC WITH UBUNTU POWERED WII"

    I would probably revise it to read:

    "KEVIN ROSE BUYS APPLE IPOD THAT CAN SYNC WITH UBUNTU POWERED WII"
  • sremick, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2What you're missing is that comparing webhosts by bandwidth/storage/etc is a lot like comparing cars by # of doors, # of wheels, etc.

    Pair has a reputation for rock-solid performance and uptime. Their beefy FreeBSD servers handle high traffic without breaking a sweat, causing them to consistently top the various Netcraft stats.

    The budget hosts will advertise huge bandwidth/storage numbers but the fine print reveals that they have a lot of flexibility in suspending your account for abstract/arbitrary usage metrics beyond just that (things like CPU usage, negating your available bandwidth cap). And beyond that, it's the difference in your page coming up in 30ms under load vs. 30s, being able to get support in minutes/hours instead of days, talking to a knowledgable person in the USA vs. a temp hired yesterday working in another country, or even being able to talk on the phone to a human (who gives a damn about you) at all.

    Quality infrastructure and support come at a cost. Pair doesn't oversell as much as GoDaddy. That's where the difference in money is going.

    (Disclaimer: I am not a Pair customer or employee)
  • billpoly, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1You can report this as lame, and to a degree you'd be correct. However, what is really lame is that the article and every cynical comment about how Digg is NOT news is 100% on target. Digg = the new media???? I think not.
  • tsteele93, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1This was informative to me, and confirmed what I expected: You can't just find a good story, and post it on digg, and expect it to ever be seen by a soul. You have to game the system by using friends to boost your post.

    That said, I offer my WAY TO BURY A STORY SO NO ONE WILL SEE IT:

    Simple, digg it and don't tell anyone you dugg it. No one will ever see it. It will be self-buried at that bottom of the pile. I posted a digg with actual pictures of the President playing poker with Saddam and Osama and it was never seen because I didn't know twenty digg-friends to boost it up. Honest!
  • warfang, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1One of his points is pay more than $2.95 a month for hosting services to be able to take the load that digg brings. He links to www.pair.com. For 240GB transfer a month it costs $50/month, but at godaddy.com you get 250GB/month for only $4/month. You get a lot less in other features but you get the same transfer for way less. Am I missing something here?
  • gmillerd, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1Everyone knows that Diggers don't click ads. Though they do drive traffic spikes, other than hurting bandwidth thats about it.
  • Pattyo13, on 05/14/2009, -2/+2aren't you over your 75 character limit?
  • Sirengirl, on 10/12/2007, -0/+01. I like it
    2. like it
    3. like

    Palatable and effective. Shall I spread the word?
  • inactive, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1Actually there is only one method and its no matter what the story is, you put AJAX in the title and you're on the frontpage in at least 20 diggs.
  • nronhubbard, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1STEVEN COLBERT IS A PS3 KILLER! AJAX CLEANS UBUNTU'S APPLES! Wii IS THE NEW LINUX IPOD!
    now can i finally have a dug story...

    fyi, the popularity contest of big diggers must end. All submissions should be equal, based on popularity...but what if Diggers actually only care about this fluff....!!!
  • DontSayFanboy, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1I know! It's almost as if AJAX was a popular industry technology and this site is frequented by a lot of web developers. What we need around here is more unpopular articles that have no relevance to what people do every day. That's the ticket.
  • Dested, on 10/12/2007, -2/+2#14 Year old videos.
  • inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Is the author of the article an anti-cat bigot, or just a troll? Why the totally off-topic and gratuitous statement proclaiming that the author of the article hates all cats? :-( Maybe that's a sneaky troll ploy to get more comments on his article, and arouse controversy, so as to draw more page views to his blog! Lame-a-rama!
  • the_atomic_ned, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1Marked innacurate. Submitter has no Idea how to get to the front page.
  • Topher06, on 10/12/2007, -2/+18 ways, or is it 8 people to get you to Digg's front page.
    Furthering the conspiracy.
  • greggles, on 10/12/2007, -1/+0Except what's wrong with 3 Turds in a list with an exciting title?

    http://www.digg.com/tech_news/Top_3_Turds_In_A_LIst_With_an_Exciting_Title
  • HMTKSteve, on 10/12/2007, -2/+1Put exclamation marks on the end of your title.
  • Landtat, on 10/12/2007, -2/+1Hm. Spam to spam digg with. Nice instructional, but I'm totaly fecking tired of boring ass bloggers filling digg with ***** as it is, now you point the way on how to cheat to get noticed. LAME SPAM
  • dosle, on 10/12/2007, -1/+0Does "quality over quantity" not apply here?
  • richardiscool, on 10/12/2007, -3/+2#13: Steve Jobs
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