Using Social Media can be a disappointing experience. Especially with Digg.com. The Digg community has earned itself the reputation of being very strict with their submission guidelines. If they sense that you might spamming, they bury your post quicker than you would know and your whole account could be seized (deactivated) overnight.

Just do a search on Google, Yahoo, or MSN for banned by digg to see the magnitude of that issue.

Search Engine	Phrase	# of results
google.com (↑)	banned by digg	908,000
search.yahoo.com (↑)		16,000,000
search.live.com (↑) (MSN)		1,980,000

The numbers are quite impressive. You are out of luck, when you try to game Digg. Nevertheless, Digg as well as other Social Networking sites are important

• for attracting additional targeted traffic to your site
• and for getting high page rank links from the authority sites - the Social Bookmarking sites themselves.

Personally I was not too good with Digg last year, meaning I did not attract much attention among Digg users. StumbleUpon.com (↑) worked far better for me.

That's only 1 reason , why I can not take credit for any list of tips about how to be successful with digg. Another reason is that there is already such a list out on the Blog-o-sphere, and it has quite an impressive 4292 Diggs (as I write this). It received all those Diggs within 13 hours. Yes, I call that impressive.

If you are interested — and you should be — how to become popular on Digg, read the following article that explains all — the not dirty at all — tricks.

Top 10 Reasons Why This List Will Be Popular on Digg (↑)
on Mixed Market Arts (↑)

What is your opinion on Digg? Is it working for you. Lease your comment below.

Yours
John W. Furst

P.S.: It's good to be back. Welcome at my 1^st post of the year 2008.