A to Z Guide to Increasing Pageviews: D is for Digg

A to Z Guide to Increasing Pageviews: D is for Digg

These days it seems that increasing pageviews is all about social bookmarking, and about Digging content. If you are unfamiliar with Digg, use these instructions to find out how to use this social boomarking, and go and start Digging, and watch pageviews increase.

There are plenty of articles out there about how to fool, how to trick, and how to get to the front page of Digg. This is not one of them. This for the writer who wants to promote their content, increaes their pageviews, and needs a guide on how to get started.

Using Digg to Increase Pageviews

1. Sign up for an account at Digg (www.digg.com).

2. Profile - When filling out the profile be sure to make sure you are somewhat recognizable to your writing peers or your readership. It's perfectly acceptable at to submit your own articles, so you can use the same first name you use as your byline.

Also be sure to include a photo or icon, to make your profile look more personable and friendly.

3. Digg Your Own Articles

When an article gets published, submit it right away. Do not rely on someone else or hope that someone will do it for you. By Digging your article, it makes it easier for others to Digg it. Also go back and submit any articles that you have previously published, to create renewed interest and generate pageviews.

Submission Tips for Increasing Pageviews

1. Modify the headline to attract interest and pageviews. The headline used in the submission process does not have to be exactly the same as the actual article. There are times when certain phrases may have been used in an original article, like "Product Review" that make the headline awkward or too long.

Modify the headline to make it more readable and flow better.

A headline may actually be too long for the headline field. Be sure to check this when submitting articles. A headline may appear missing the last letter of a word, and it will need to be modified. The spellchecker will not notify you of this.

2. Make the Story Description Appealing

Write the story description so that the article will appeal to readers. In fact, make the description so interesting that they have to click on the article link and read the rest. Don't forget to spellcheck the description. Misspellings in the description will turn readers off from clicking on the link and reading the article.

3. Select the Right Topic

Digg allows you to select one topic, not multiple topics. Pick the topics that fits. If no topic comes close to being accurate for the article, you may not want to submit it to this site at all.

3. Similar Stories

When stories are submitted, you will see the "Submit a New Link - Are You Sure It's Not a Duplicate?" message. This seems to always come up. Some of these articles will be closely relate to the article you are submitting.

Read any that interest you, and digg them. By reading and digging articles with the similar topic as yours is a good way to not only find interesting articles, but also will get dugg back.

4. Find Your Friends

Next, find your friends on the site. find writing peers or other writers from a writing group.

Add them. Digg will warn you if you try to add too many friends at once. This can make it hard for people who try to dedicate a lump of time to their promotion time. It better serves the more frequent user.