With over 230 million anual visitors, digg is the largest social bookmarking - popularity
site on the net. Why does this matter? Because digg is an excellent way to drive
traffic to your site, providing that you offer interesting content, enough that
readers would digg your site.
How it Works
The goal is to make it to the front page of digg. To get there your site
needs enough diggs. Once, in the spot-light of making the front page, your site
will be shown to all the readers browsing the digg site. On the flip side any site can also be burried. The algorithm
that determines when a site is no longer interesting or burried enough is proprietary,
so bottom line, keep your content unique and interesting.
Although a site can be dugg without a direct link on the page to digg, you can help the
process by adding a digg link right on your page. This article has a live example below.
To add a similar link, create an account with digg, browse to the integrate
section of digg, then copy and paste the code onto your site.
The Digg Effect
Readers can digg any site, in which point they become dugg. A site that is dugg
attracts other readers to read and digg the site. The more the site is dugg, the
more readers it gets, which in turns drives more readers to digg the site. This
effect can create an unwanted result of actually slowing down the site and can even
crash the web server, or as the term goes "dugg to death".
Summary
Digg, along with several other social bookmarking sites are an excellent opportunity
for your site to gain some traffic. If you digg this article or any other on this site,
just digg it!