How to Get More Diggs and Why This Blogger Did Not

Social bookmarking can help your blog's rankings in so many ways. But I have come to believe that so many have tried how to get more Diggs and after doing it wrong have given up.

However, think about this: If Digg has 5 million users and the average number of posts, from the Digg top 100 to the user who no longer participates is 1 post per day, that is 5 million posts.

How can you possibly expect that Google will see your 1 link in Digg in 5 million others as a backlink to your site. In fact if you submit your site to Digg and no one else Diggs it, I have come to feel that is a negative indicator in Google’s eyes. The worst thing you can do is submit your Digg posts yourself and then get no Diggs.

One of my friends on Social Marketing Central wrote an article that went hot on the Internet. He got like 1500 visitors in a few days and 80 comments. The bad news is that he only got 18 Diggs. Now tell me this: Don’t you think that Google, that has access to the popularity of posts on Digg just like we do, would not see 1500 visitors and 18 Diggs a negative indicator of this blog and the blog post itself?

I can easily get 100 to 200 Diggs for any article I want in Digg in 2 days. I do that through my own strategies and participation.

So social bookmarking if done wrong can actually hurt you. Social marketing is about being social, so be social on social bookmarking sites, don’t just submit you own content and expect that this will bring you results.

Paris Hilton to Wed Benji

I ran across this Paris Hilton parody in one of my forums.

What amazed me was that an unranked new blog managed to rank at all under Paris Hilton in Google blogsearch and managed to stay #3 or #4 for 24 hours.

As far as I can tell this is a new blog and not themed with any Paris Hilton content previously. It amazes me how Google ranks left field blogs highly under highly searched terms like Paris Hilton.

Friend Connect to Connect all your Friends

Google may roll out Friend Connect sometime Monday. Don't be surprised if the link is not found, it was a 404 when I wrote this.

If it is going to look like MyBlogLog (it is) I an uninterested.

I will not be adding any thumbnails of my friends in a JavaScript widget to my side bar. Give me some real functionality and I may be interested.

Also the article, Friend Connect Connects What? Google to Connect Friends poses allot of questions we probably all have in the backs of our minds about real functionality.

John McGowan Sends World's Largest Shout! Digg Fans Go Crazy

OK, so you may know that I do not aggree with the way most people are on Digg just to either send "World's Larget Ball of Spit Found" type shouts all day long.

Well I just got sick of seeing this kind of crap in my inbox all day long so I decided to make a statement by submitting over 500 pages of the "World's Largest Digg" with over 500 links of absolute crap to Digg.

Another Digg user decided that that was so funny he decided to create the "World's Largest Digg Shout" and here it is.....

He is #1 on Google blogsearch for "Worlds Largest Shout."

Another Digg user, Ashmadai, has sent you a shout.

"Please Digg these and share them with your friends. All you need to do is copy the shout and paste it into your shouts and pass it on.

http://digg.com/odd_stuff/WORLD_S_LARGEST_ACCORDIAN

http://digg.com/odd_stuff/WORLD_S_LARGEST_AIRPORT_2

http://digg.com/odd_stuff/LARGEST_AMERICAN_CITY

http://digg.com/odd_stuff/THE_LARGEST_AMERICAN_STATE

http://digg.com/odd_stuff/WORLD_S_LARGEST_AMSUSEMENT_PARK

http://digg.com/odd_stuff/WORLD_S_LARGEST_APPLE

http://digg.com/odd_stuff/WORLD_S_LARGEST_ARMY

http://digg.com/odd_stuff/WORLD_S_LARGEST_SCORE_IN_ASTEROIDS

http://digg.com/odd_stuff/WORLD_S_LARGEST_ATOM

http://digg.com/odd_stuff/WORLD_S_LARGEST_AVALANCHE

http://digg.com/odd_stuff/WORLD_S_LARGEST_ANT_COLONY

http://digg.com/odd_stuff/WORLD_S_LARGEST_BABY_2

http://digg.com/odd_stuff/WORLD_S_LARGEST_BAGEL

http://digg.com/odd_stuff/WORLD_S_LARGEST_BALL_OF_PAINT_2

http://digg.com/odd_stuff/WORLD_S_LARGEST_BALL_OF_TWINE_2

http://digg.com/odd_stuff/WORLD_S_LARGEST_BALLET_CLASS

http://digg.com/odd_stuff/WORLD_S_LARGEST_BANANA

http://digg.com/odd_stuff/WORLD_S_LARGEST_BANKNOTE

http://digg.com/odd_stuff/WORLD_S_LARGEST_BAT_COLONY

http://digg.com/odd_stuff/WORLD_S_LARGEST_MLB_BATTING_AVERAGE

http://digg.com/odd_stuff/WORLD_S_LARGEST_BAY

http://digg.com/odd_stuff/WORLD_S_LARGEST_BEAR

http://digg.com/odd_stuff/WORLD_S_LARGEST_BEE

http://digg.com/odd_stuff/WORLD_S_LARGEST_BEER

http://digg.com/odd_stuff/WORLD_S_LARGEST_BEER_FEST

http://digg.com/odd_stuff/WORLD_S_LARGEST_BEER_FEST

http://digg.com/odd_stuff/WORLD_S_LARGEST_BICEPS

http://digg.com/odd_stuff/WORLD_S_LARGEST_BILLBOARD

http://digg.com/odd_stuff/WORLD_S_LARGEST_BOMB

http://digg.com/odd_stuff/WORLD_S_LARGEST_BOOK

http://digg.com/odd_stuff/WORLD_S_LARGEST_BOTTLE_OF_WINE_2

http://digg.com/odd_stuff/WORLD_S_LARGEST_BOWLING_ALLEY

http://digg.com/odd_stuff/WORLD_S_LARGEST_BRAIN

http://digg.com/odd_stuff/WORLD_S_LARGEST_BUBBLEGUM_BUBBLE

http://digg.com/odd_stuff/WORLD_S_LARGEST_BUILDING

http://digg.com/odd_stuff/WORLD_S_LARGEST_CARDBOARD_BOX

http://digg.com/odd_stuff/WORLD_S_LARGEST_CASINO

http://digg.com/odd_stuff/WORLD_S_LARGEST_CATFISH

http://digg.com/odd_stuff/WORLD_S_LARGEST_CATSUP_BOTTLE

http://digg.com/odd_stuff/WORLD_S_LARGEST_CAVE_CHAMBER

http://digg.com/odd_stuff/WORLD_S_LARGEST_CHEESE

http://digg.com/odd_stuff/WORLD_S_LARGEST_CHEESEBURGER_2

http://digg.com/odd_stuff/WORLD_S_LARGEST_CHURCH

http://digg.com/odd_stuff/WORLD_S_LARGEST_CITY

http://digg.com/odd_stuff/WORLD_S_LARGEST_CITY_SQUARE

http://digg.com/odd_stuff/WORLD_S_LARGEST_COLLEGE_FOOTBALL_STADIUM

http://digg.com/odd_stuff/NFL_S_LARGEST_COMEBACK

http://digg.com/odd_stuff/WORLD_S_LARGEST_CONTINENT

http://digg.com/odd_stuff/WORLD_S_LARGEST_COOKIE

http://digg.com/odd_stuff/WORLD_S_LARGEST_CRATER

http://digg.com/odd_stuff/WORLD_S_LARGEST_CROSSWORD_PUZZLE_2

http://digg.com/odd_stuff/WORLD_S_LARGEST_CROWD

http://digg.com/odd_stuff/WORLD_S_LARGEST_CRUISE_SHIP

http://digg.com/odd_stuff/WORLD_S_LARGEST_CUP_OF_COFFEE

http://digg.com/odd_stuff/WORLD_S_LARGEST_DAILY_NEWSPAPER

http://digg.com/odd_stuff/WORLD_S_LARGEST_DAM

http://digg.com/odd_stuff/WORLD_S_LARGEST_DECATHLON_SCORE

http://digg.com/odd_stuff/WORLD_S_LARGEST_DIAMOND

http://digg.com/odd_stuff/WORLD_S_LARGEST_DIRNDL_DRESS

http://digg.com/odd_stuff/WORLD_S_LARGEST_DOG_2

http://digg.com/odd_stuff/WORLD_S_LARGEST_DOME

http://digg.com/odd_stuff/WORLD_S_LARGEST_DONUT_2

http://digg.com/odd_stuff/WORLD_S_LARGEST_DOOR

http://digg.com/odd_stuff/WORLD_S_LARGEST_DRAIN_HOLE

http://digg.com/odd_stuff/WORLD_S_LARGEST_EARTHQUAKE

http://digg.com/odd_stuff/WORLD_S_LARGEST_EGG

http://digg.com/odd_stuff/WORLDS_LARGEST_EMPIRE

http://digg.com/odd_stuff/WORLD_S_LARGEST_EYES

http://digg.com/odd_stuff/WORLD_S_LARGEST_EYES"
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WORLD'S LARGEST EYES

What animal has the world's largest eyes?
The Atlantic giant squid lays claim to having the world's largest eyes which measure about 25 centimeters or 10 inches in diameter, about the size of a volleyball.

http://digg.com/odd_stuff/WORLD_S_LARGEST_EYES?OTC-em-sh1
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Now that is funny. He apparently couldn't fit all 500 links I submitted into the World's Largets Digg Shout but he sure tried!

How to Get More Diggs and Why not to Shout Your Own Digg Items

If you are trying to get more Diggs by shouting your own items you are killing your search engine rankings.

I just spent an entire week analyzing how to get more Diggs, not be a Digg spammer and why not to shout your own Digg items and it is very suprising what I found out.

I started out with a simple article on how to get a few more Diggs.

Then I began to see how submitting your own articles could hurt your search engine rankings. Also you should not be Digging your own items either. We all pretty much agree on that.

What I began to notice though is that when you shout items to your friends list Digg shows the items you shouted in your history tab, even though you are logged out. In other words, it is in your public profile for all to see.

This means it is in your profile where Google can see it too. If submitting your own articles over and over to Digg creates numerous entries in your public profile where search engine spiders can see them, why do numerous shouts all leading to the same URL not do the same thing?

In my testing, (and it was a deep test) I have a well supported theory that this is all true. I have chronicled the entire process with 20 different screen shots of what I have analyzed and it is all right here on my main blog.

How to get more diggs, a Digg privacy breach and why you should not be shouting your own Digg items.

Of course I welcome your comments here and on my main blog.

How to get More Diggs

How to get more Diggs is the concern of every Digg user.

But there is some concern on how to actully do this.

The social marketing blog at KeyWebData has been on fire lately analyzing exactly how Digg works and how not to appear to be spamming Digg by Google.

The number most inportant things Chris Lang has explained here are:

Do not submit your own items.

Do not Digg you own items.

And the number one concern is whether or not shouting your own items to your friends list hurts you Google ranking.

Read the full post on How to Get More Diggs and let me know what you think.

How Google Really Ranks Blogs

If you think you know how Google ranks blogs you are wrong unless your name is Andy Beard

Since RSS is such a part of blogging I think it would be wise to talk about how Google really ranks blogs and blog seo. Blogs are not static websites and Google does not rank them the same and rarely even lists them in what we call organic results. Google actually segregates blogs to Google Blogsearch.

There are 5 of 6 things that determine how your blog is ranked by Google.

The number of subscribers you have in Google Reader.

The number of blogrolls you are in and the quality of the blogs in those blogrolls.

How many times your Google search engine listing is clicked.

Social bookmarketing posts and the number of times you are Dugg ect.

The number of times your URL appears in conversations, think Gmail.

Google adds all this up and then decides how to rank your blog. If you are doing well in their eyes you will begin to appear in organic results.

I hope this article and the links above give you some insight into how Google looks at your blog.

= Chris Lang