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WEB 2.0 TRAFFIC PART TOW
How To Use Digg To Generate An Avalanche Of Traffic To Your Site!
(Note: This section also identifies ways you can leverage the
massive traffic that Netscape generates)
(Home page of Digg.com)
First up, here’s the scoop on Digg:
By now, many of you would have heard about Digg, right? - The
free Web 2.0 social news service that continues to be the rage in the world
of social bookmarking, because of its simple yet amazingly powerful
strategy.
Digg’s policy is all about enabling its 510,000 + users
to submit and decide the top stories of the day, instead of having a newspaper editor
do the job. Readers ‘digg’ content they like and ‘bury’ news pieces they dislike.
The more ‘diggs’ a story accumulates, the more its ranking
will continue to grow. And the article that generates the highest rankings will
be featured on the home page for everyone to read.
To help users moderate the various posts that are made, and
also to help them deal with duplicates, spam and posts that are off topics, Digg
introduced the ‘bury’ feature.
If a news piece gets ‘buried’ many times, you’ll soon find it
pretty difficult to access it on the site, and instead, will need to view it
through the user profile of a person who has dugg the article.
What type of content can be dugg?
Well, at first, only articles on technology were tracked by
Digg, but today,
they’ve included the following categories too:
 Sports
World and
Business
Science
Videos
Gaming
Entertainment,
etc.
Additionally, you’ll find there are many sub-categories within
each main category. This makes it easy to find the articles you’re
looking for.
How can Digg bring me an avalanche of traffic?
Well, the secret lies in your posts. There are 2 ways in which
Digg can send a ton of visitors to your site:
1- When you provide useful and interesting content, most folks
will definitely take a few seconds to view your user profile.
That’s when they spot the link to your site.
And because you’ve already provided them with some great
content, they’re sure
to click through to your website to check out what else you’re
offering.
This means more exposure for your site, which can also mean more sales
for you!
2- Digg doesn’t host your article – they only provide the
title of your post and a brief description of it. The actual article will be
on your
website.
Now if your post happens to land a spot on the coveted Home
Page of Digg, chances are you’re going to get a lot of click- throughs. And
when folks arrive at your site and gain some sort of benefit from your
article, they’re bound to stay longer and explore it further!
So how do I submit an article to Digg?
First, you want to sign up for a user account. (Which by the
way, is free!) Next, you’ve got to submit your news piece to Digg. For those of you
aren’t familiar with the whole process, here’s how you do it:
You’ll receive
a prompt from the ‘submit’ screen, asking you to enter the web address of the article you plan to submit.
Thereafter,
you’ll need to enter the title and also a brief summary of the article.
Hint:
Most Digg users will want to view your
post based on how powerful and attractive your title and description are, so
make sure you pay some attention to this aspect of your article.
OK, once you’re
done with that, you want to pick and choose the appropriate category and sub-category for your post.
Finally, click
‘Submit Story.’ You will then see around 10 possible duplicates.
3- Simply confirm your content hasn’t been
dugg already and finalize your article submission. Your news story will then be
made available for all to read!
Many webmasters out there have quickly realized the value of
Digg, and are now using it to generate a massive amount of traffic to their
sites.
Have a stampede of traffic to your site using the combined
power of Digg and Netscape!
(Home Page of Netscape)
Lately, there’ve been a number of smart, savvy internet
marketers who’re actively utilizing the power of Digg and Netscape to drive a
flood of traffic to their sites. And now, you can too!
But just exactly how do you go about doing this?
Let’s break it down into easy steps, ok?
Submission
First off, while Digg is all about the number of votes you
get, Netscape focuses on time-based votes. To elaborate - if you generate a total of
8 votes in 8 minutes your story will probably be featured on the home page
of Netscape.
Now before I go into more details, let’s focus on Digg for a
couple minutes.....
Each time a Digg member submits a news piece you wrote,
Digg will display a link to your website’s article, and some brief info the member
submits. And, if fellow Digg readers happen to enjoy your piece, chances are
they too will dig it.
So the higher the diggs your article generates, the higher its
ranking will be……which translates into a larger readership for you!
Just imagine the traffic you’ll receive on an awesome article
– it could easily result in 5,000 + visitors. And more traffic = more
profits for you!
Here are 3 quick tips you can implement to have your stories
on the front pages of Digg and Netscape:
Write out lively
and catchy titles and descriptions for all of your articles, since they usually tend to outperform dull, insipid ones by a
great margin.
Posts that
contain useful, informative content that’s beneficial to readers (eg. How-to guides) attract a larger audience.
Since both Digg
and Netscape seek to promote current, up-to-date information, articles that describe stale events are generally
not received with much enthusiasm.
Comments
This strategy is one of the simplest and most profitable ways
to benefit from the massive traffic that Digg and Netscape constantly attract.
And yet, only a very few marketers are actually implementing the technique I’m
about to reveal to you. So listen up!
Hot Tip : If you want to
enhance your chances (and who doesn’t ),
to making it to the Home pages of these two sites, then you probably need to include
Digg and Netscape buttons in your news stories and RSS feeds.
Tell me, have you ever noticed that Netscape and Digg have
made available, a comment feature for readers to use?
And did you also know leaving meaningful comments that
contained subtle links to your website, can easily drive hundreds and sometimes
even thousands of traffic to your site - especially if the article you
commented on made it to the home page…..
Which leads us to…..
simple techniques that will help you maximize the potential
of profiting through comments made on Digg and Netscape:
Make sure you
comment on current topics of interest on Digg, as it’s sure to be read by many more readers.
Only include
links if you’re confident that folks will benefit by clicking through to your website.
Also, keep in
mind that you needn’t always comment on a post that’s related to your niche; sometimes, leaving useful comments on
topics that are completely different, can still result in a good
amount of traffic to your site. Just don’t go around spamming – make sure you
keep well away from it! Well, there you have it. Yet another Traffic Generation System
for you to implement and attract a boatload of targeted traffic to your
website!
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