Making the best of Digg for your blog or website


When someone submits your blogpost or page to digg.com for the Digg community to start voting on it – how do you know that your story has been dugg by one or more than one person on digg.com so you can quickly take advantage of being possibly dugg by a lot more people and get free visitor traffic inflow. This would result in your story or post moving up digg ranks… earning you a potentially large influx of traffic known as the “digg effect”.

How does one get alerted so they can take advantage of this by quickly inserting a Digg this widget button next to your story or blog post – so other readers can easily be encouraged to digg it without leaving your site?

Here’s how you can prepare yourself…

The basic trick involves setting up a custom RSS feed that you will need to monitor regularly

  1. Goto the Digg Search page at www.digg.com/search
  2. Type your web domain address in the seach box and select “URL only”. Please see the image below to see what I mean.
  3. Then select “All Stories”, “Sort Newest First” and hit the Search button.

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Digg will provide a live RSS feed of these search results. You can see the RSS image button in the results and copy that link. Whenever a story from your blog or website hits digg irrespective of the number of diggs – it will become visible in this RSS feed.

Here’s what the RSSfeed link will look like -

http://www.digg.com/rss_search?search=www.successonline.in……

…..&area=all&type=url&section=all

Now, you can now either get this feed in your news reader or turn it into an email alert via RSSFwd or R-Mail to get an email as soon as you are Digg.com. So, next time you see a post of yours in this Digg feed – head over to your blog or the post and add a snippet of code as shown below – so your readers can also digg the story, thereby increasing your rank and potentially driving more traffic into your site.

<script type="text/javascript">
digg_url = 'DIGG_PERMALINK_URL';
</script>
<script src="http://digg.com/tools/diggthis.js" type="text/javascript"> </script>

Thats it!









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