A Complete Digg How-To - All the Digg Tips You'll Need

We will start with the basics. Digg is a social media website that allows its users to submit stories that they find interesting, and others to "digg" their story if they like it. If a particular story gets a high amount of digg's it does well.

If you really don't know what Digg is then I recommend that you check out their About Us page. I would also recommend checking out their tour.

After you sign up and invited your friends, you should start digging. Check out the main page first. Digg it up. It is great to have a good start.

After you get the hang of it start getting into the social part of digg. Start by updating your bio page and getting an avatar. If you have an image you are that much more likely to be noticed.

I personally will take you more seriously if you have an avatar instead of that black default image. Plus it gives some style. You should consider putting a picture of yourself as you avatar.

What is an Avatar - Well on digg and on many other sites when they refer to an avatar, they mean your logo or personal image.

Incorporate yourself as much as possible. Add your other pages like your myspace or squidoo links. Even you IM address if you want.

Okay, this is going to be hard for me to say. I have been around the block a couple times on digg and I found the only way to get on the front page.

You need friends.

Bamb, that is the great answer to the question of how to get on the front page of Digg. You need to have friends. The Quantity of friends you have is always good but the quality also counts.

If you want your submitted article to get noticed you need to give it as much PR as possible.

The first place people see it will be obvious; it will be seen in upcoming. Then your friends will see it on your profile as friend activity.

Then if they digg it, it will be seen by their friends and then they will digg it. Then the chain goes on.

That my friend is the only way your submitted article will find its face on the front page of Digg.

Starting to digg in the upcomming section is always a good thing to do. This is for two reasons. One: There could be some great article that you might be missing. Two: It will help you get some friends.

When you submit a story/picture/video it might be smart to add the people that dugg your story to your friends list. The reason is this: If they dugg the article that you just submitted their might be a good chance that they will like the other articles that you submitted as well.

Check out this chart:



It is a pie chart showing where the diggers are coming from. From this pie chart we can tell that Digg has more American Users then anything else.

More people go on the internet from 6to 9PM.

From these two sets of time, we can say that if you lived in a place that went by CST it would be smart to submit an article around 7PM-8PM so that it will be 6-7 in the west and 8-9 in the east. This way you will get more attention to your article even if you don't have many friends (on digg).

The Whole Day digger is something that I become when I have some extra time to my self (or a lot of time). What I do is just Digg, comment, and add friends. With this method, you will quickly develop your popularity on the site.

What you do is go onto a topic that you are interested in. Then go to upcoming and Digg the articles that appeal to you most. Then if you want, comment on the article. If you like it a lot, then add the person who submitted it as a friend.

You do this for an hour, two hours, three hours, then you will get loads of friends. Period.

Then afterwards, you will start to get fans. All you have to do is stay active. Not for hours like you started, but for a few minutes a day. The fans will come to you by finding you on their friends, friends list. Then you can add those fans as your friends.