Many people approach link baiting focused purely on getting front paged on Digg. It is however entirely possible to complete a successful link baiting campaign without getting the benefit of the Digg effect.
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Before you go offering Diggers and Stumblers to us, promissing riches in heavens above, maybe you should iterate a bit on what it is about.Would you recommend a business man to submit his business Website to a global social network for evaluation and critique?It could go either way heavens or hell.I am sure you heard of the expression, "Never trust the Greecs bearing gifts!"Well that is how I feel about social networks, unless you know what, who, and why it is better to stay away, go for your little niche where you can explain to others what your business is about.Or hire a social media consultant to guide you through the mind feeld of Diggers and help you not to fall. Someone who has a clout on the social media network and can Sphinn you in the benificial matter.But then a negative Sphinn can also be beneficial, go on Nuke me on Digg for Igor The Troll, I will fly hire than super sonic jet. And if you would go for one of my babies, I will Troll you for Life.Witnesses to this effect are everywhere!Good luck Digging and please do not Stumble..:)
>>Would you recommend a business man to submit his business Website to a global social network for evaluation and critique?Hell no! :) But then anyone that doesn’t spend a few minutes learning what these type of sites are about deserves the full wrath of the Digg crowd!
Thanks Matt. It is educational to learn what it is all about.Please tell us more being that you know about this world.
It’s funny, after reading Tamar’s post about Kevin Rose and this morning’s seomoz whiteboard fridays about traffic spikes and the effects these have on your SERP results (3rd video), I am more and more dubious about the benefits of digg. I see it more and more like Techmeme: a good place to get info and breaking news, but a network users like to game. This obviously decreases the value of the network, and I have heard many SEOs recently complain about increases in spam and duplicate content on those sites...
"In the 10 days since the article first hit the social networking sites we have picked up over 1,500 new links, from a mixture of niche industry sites, blogs," Not 1,500 unique links I reckon? I can’t imagine anything doing that number just from it initially being spread through StumbleUpon. And I’ve done my share of massive baits that gone viral simultaneously on Digg + Reddit + del.icio.us + SU + Propeller. Every hardcore linkbaiter knows the power of Digg and its ROI for links and social media attention snowballing...that’s why most of them spend time building accounts there. Not discounting the value of small niche networks... there are some which are great launching pads. Dzone is a good example of a news site that appears to have a close connection with del.icio.us.
I think Sphinn is a great place to get your SEO message out!What’s the product?
>>Not 1,500 unique links I reckon?Yep, 1500, I’ve had a site get 17,000 from a Digg front page, so it’s not such a leap of the imagination.https://siteexplorer.search.yahoo.com/advsearch?p=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.scrollovers.com&bwm=i&bwmf=a&bwms=p