Swapping diggs : an effective way to make it to the front page

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The traffic and the profits from Digg’s front page posts isn’t a secret to any of us, but its a fact that less than 5% of the blogs these days have achieved it atleast once in all these years, this is even after the top notch content they provide their readers with. Moreover blogs like Mashable and Techcrunch which are actually not even close to other small blogs in their niche when it comes to content,make it to the front page almost everyday. Yes an existing traffic base does matter when it comes to making it to the front page, but its not everything, as content has a key place too.

Recently I have started to see many small blogs grow to high levels with just the help of a few front page articles, most of them did have digg friendly posts, but still they had nothing which could take them to the front page that easily, when I started connecting with them personally I realized there secret, they kept swapping diggs with each other using multiple accounts, actually this was something which I was doing from a long time but at a smaller scale and for small sites such as Sphinn and Mixx and those like StumbleUpon and Twitter which didn’t take much effort and you don’t need a big network.

I used to do the same with a network of friends, but didn’t want to do it with Digg because my network was too small and could never get enough diggs to make it to the front page, but there success stories greatly motivated me to try and achieve this and to my surprise it wasn’t tough at all. If you’ve noticed the previous two posts have received a high number of Diggs compared to the others, but they didn’t make it to the front page because the type of content wasn’t really digg friendly, but now the only thing I need is the right content. In this post I’ve mentioned the best ways to find other diggers looking to self promote and organizing and mutually helping each other gain exposure.

Your blog comes first

The first place to find people ready for such business is your own blog, owning a blogging tips blog gave me a certain advantage as I could publicly tell people to connect with me if they are looking to exchange social media votes, but readers from other niche are not really favorable if you promote such stuff in front of them, but still you can promote your social profiles, as mostly other bloggers from your niche will try to connect with you.

This method isn’t really that accurate, but if you find a new friend immediately introduce yourself and see if he is planning to exchange votes with you. This is good because a few initial users are necessary to keep up with the next few steps, once you get the initial few, you can find others easily, moreover you yourself will start getting requests from others.

Other social sites

By other social sites, I mean Facebook, Linkedin or Twitter, I have also mentioned many times in my previous posts that always connect with other bloggers than your blogs readers, as its them who help you promote your site in the long run. After you’ve got a quiet a good list of friends, start off by sending them mails or writing on their walls that your willing to exchange social media votes with them, all will surely respond a few will be negative, but most will be positive.

As soon as you get them, try connecting with them on Gtalk if possible as its much more easier and then start following them on all of their social profiles. After the above two steps you’ll surely get a good number in your network, so you’ll start getting requests for diggs, and as soon as you make your next post make sure you ping them all.

Trade and expand

When you get a handful of people in your network start exchanging votes with them immediately and after you’ve built a trustable relationship try to convince them to introduce the people of his network to you and you do the same in return. Almost all will agree with this strategy as most of them are dying to build there networks.

If you successfully strike this with everyone, your sure to get enough people to have you on the front page, thats why I mentioned that this isn’t as tough as people really think. At times this may become very annoying because sometimes requests for votes keep popping up, remember that before getting you need to give.

If your ready to bear that single disadvantage, then I’m sure there is no other sort of problem that you may encounter, you’ll start getting huge amounts of diggs on all your posts.

Promote it on your profile

I have seen many Digg users who write this directly on their profiles stating that they are ready to exchange diggs and below they’ll list various ways one can get in touch with them. This is a wonderful way to promote yourself and if you do so you’ll instantly start witnessing requests, but you also stand a great chance of getting banned from Digg.

You will not get caught if your account is new, but once it comes under the limelight, that is if your submission makes it to the front page, then you’ll surely get banned. So my plan is to grow my network as much as possible by writing it initially, but when I feel I have built a network and ready to utilize it, I’ll remove that from there.

On to our readers

Till now this is the best way to promote your blog on Digg, if you really don’t want to spam you can start creating a powerful profile on Digg by making popular submissions of other articles which are of great quality and when you have the authority you can start submitting your own posts.

Using this method you don’t have to be worried about getting banned or anything because it has got little to do with your account and once your banned you can easily create another account. Your sure to have a tough time initially as you’ll have to spend a lot of time digging other’s posts, but you’ll sure have a powerful profile once you make it to the front page once or twice.

Among the others who are looking for such exchanges is myself, so if your looking for anything of such sort, please do connect with me on Facebook and I’ll surely exchange more than just diggs. If you have any opinions or suggestions on this post please feel free to comment below.

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