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The New Digg & What It Means For SEO
Social Media News Source: http://searchengineland.com
Published: Sep 25, 2007 - 12:59 pm
Story Found By: chriswinfield 1706 Days ago
Category: Social Media
Neil gives an overview of what the new Digg changes mean for SEOs.  As he states ’We all want to get on the homepage of Digg because it can bring in thousands of links, but the recent changes made it both easier and harder to get stories promoted.’  Here’s why....
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from planetc1 1706 Days ago #
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Neils suggestion to "get a non-power user to submit" is a piece of cake but "get tons of power users to promote" is a bit harder. Nice summary.

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from chriswinfield 1706 Days ago #
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Hi planetc1 - it’s actually much easier then you would imagine. It’s all about networking, networking, networking...

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from AndyBeard 1706 Days ago #
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Hmm yeah but ... there are a whole load of top Diggers who I remember being mutual friends who no longer are.I have never been highly active on Digg, but then I haven’t exactly been abusing any relationship either and they know I am active on SU...

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from Guillaume 1706 Days ago #
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Hey Neil. I think that you are right in the sense that a lower account will require far less diggs to hit the homepage. On the other hand, we have noticed that it is far easier to get a story buried now, and if you hit the homepage with a weak account, the chances to get buried by top diggers are a lot higher (from what we’ve seen). Kinda like if you’d have partial immunity if your a top digger! On the other hand, if a top digger submits the story, and you can get enough votes for it (will be harder for sure), the chances to get buried, once it hits the homepage, seems to be lower (because a "respected" top digger won’t get his story buried by other top diggers, even if the story is not awesome).That’s just my 2 cents - I recommend you vary; submit with weak, average and strong digg users to find what fits the best for you - I suppose the vertical market have a big impact on the bury side as well, as we’ve had harder situations with different niches.

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from HarleyJane 1706 Days ago #
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They actually just fixed the limit to your ’Friends Recent Submissions’. It’s no longer the last 60 submissions, like the article states, I think now it’s unlimited... but that just changed this afternoon.

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from GotanRaider 1704 Days ago #
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I wrote a post about shouts yesterday that was submitted to Digg and made it to the front page. I thought it was going to be buried, given that my blog is about Black Hat SEO, but it didn’t.Anyways, the digg thread has close to 100 comments and you can see how Digg users are extremely pissed off at the Shout feature as it is obviously being abused by.... us, I guess.So be careful with using Shouts. I wouldn’t send a shout with a url to digg. I would only use shouts to engage with people. Kind of: "Hi, nice submission you made yesterday, good to be digging with you!" 

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from JakePM 1696 Days ago #
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Great post Neil.  I think that Shouts are a positive development; they add to the connectedness and transparency. And it is very interesting indeed how a non power account may take less diggs to reach HP, so long as it’s getting power account diggs.I also love how when a "bug" is called out - it gets fixed by Digg team (in some cases) ;-)

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