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Website In A Weekend recently had the article 7 More WordPress Plugins You Need To Take Your Site To The Next Level stolen outright, posted on another site without attribution. I found it from the pingback when it was posted on Digg. That was a clue: time to revive the moribund Digg account and get these articles posted.
First, I checked the Terms of Service to make sure posting your own articles was allowed. Here’s what I understood:
- It’s fine to submit your own stuff.
- It’s not fine to game the system.
Having a “Digg party” is probably out of bounds, especially when used to game your ranking up very high. Intense activity in a relatively small network of people is pretty easy to catch.
On the other hand, if your interest is to establish first publication, not get to the top page, it doesn’t look like the Terms of Service frown on that. If your friends subsequently Digg you up, well, you’re not responsible for their behavior. A small number of people digging a small number of articles isn’t going to trigger too much concern.
When doing research on topics, it’s smart to Digg the articles you like, or articles already listed. It costs you very little time, and helps authors get credit for the work they did. The authors can see who dugg their articles, and you may get the favor returned.
I read on someone’s marketing blog (can’t recall, will keep an eye out), that the typical Digg user isn’t a very good customer anyway. This marketer reported practically zero conversions from people referred in from Digg. So no need to spend much time on it. Contrary evidence welcome!
More information about Digg
Here’s a great article about Digg from Kristi Hine’s guest post on Social Media Examiner “A Comprehensive Guide to the New Digg.”
Justin Germino (Dragon Blogger) noted that the newly updated (August 2010) Digg now allows automated submissions using your blog’s RSS feed. Read more about it, and how to do it here: Auto Submit Blog Feed to Digg.
Never really used it, though I think I’ve signed up at some point. Didn’t even realise it timestamped; might be worth looking into then.
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Digg currently doesn’t seem to have much value.
But I’m not so sure for long term. It might turn out there’s some unexpected and measureable advantage for having a few hundred of your own links on Digg. I don’t know. Hard to say.
Ah well, if nothing else it’ll show how long my stuff’s been around (in case there are issues with people trying to rip it off). We’ll see.
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