Have You Been Dugg?
Author: Omaro Ailoch

For any Webmaster that keeps a keen eye on their site
analytics, and all the good ones do, it is always a pleasant
surprise to see a new and unexpected source of traffic. Until
recently, unless you owned a technology based website, it was
unlikely you would have seen Digg as one of those emerging
traffic sources. However, the whirlwind popularity of the
service has seen it delve into new depths and open its community
based website up to a much broader range of categories.

Digg has long been a phenomenon with websites in the technology
industry. A well written article can be submitted by anybody for
review, and other Diggers read and rate the article. The more
Diggs an article receives, the higher up the list of articles it
traverses. Reaching the front page for a topic can see a sluice
of traffic hit your site in a short space of time while the
coveted front page could virtually bring your hosting server
down single-handedly.

So, How Can A Website Take Advantage Of Being Dugg?

The first thing to do is to ensure that your site is properly
optimized to convert the visitors you receive. The Digg effect
will only normally be in full flow for a day or two so act
quickly if you haven't already optimized your content for
conversions.

In order to ride the wave a little further, you could add
social bookmarking buttons to the page that has been Dugg. There
are other popular social popularity sites such as Sphinn. Add
social bookmarking buttons as well. If your site has a lot of
good information that Diggers see when they visit, you could
gain a good number of regular visitors through your bookmarking.


Add a Digg button to your other pages. People interested in the
topic you have written about will navigate around the various
pages of your website to find more useful information. If they
have come from the Digg website then at least some of them will
be willing to click the Digg button on any other good articles.
You could greatly multiply the traffic you receive.

What If You Haven't Been Dugg?

Digg and other social sites have become massively popular. When
many people are looking for information on a specific topic they
will use these sites to find relevant articles. Write good
content that is appealing to readers, add social bookmarking and
distribution buttons to your pages, and get Digging yourself.

To some extent it goes against the values of the Digg site to
submit your own piece, but as long as you don't get carried away
and only submit it yourself once it can help to give your piece
the exposure it needs. Loyal readers of your website that also
use Digg will click the Digg button if they like your article
and so the popularity of your piece begins to grow.

Fresh articles with new ideas that are well written tend to get
Dugg more often than those that are nothing more than rehashed
information. Even adding a new slant on an old idea or adding
some controversy to an already popular topic can help to create
the stir that you need.

Digg It

Digg, along with other social websites, have become massively
popular with surfers. They present a convenient and simple way
to read useful information that is pertinent to a particular
topic. By having an article or page Dugg you could be riding
high on a wave of targeted traffic for several days. It's even
possible to Digg your own articles in the first place, although
we don't encourage abusing the Digg system.


About The Author: Omaro Ailoch is a senior software engineer,
an entrepreneur and the founder of OC IT Services
http://www.ocitservices.com a highly skilled California based
web development, design, and search engine optimization firm.