Blow Up Website Promotion With Digg

Among the social bookmarking sites, Digg has the most number of users. Furthermore, it has been reported to be in the top 100 sites on the web in any category. In fact, a survey conducted by Compete.com turns out that digg.com attracted at least 236 million visitors yearly by 2008. Thus, considering the number of visitors that Digg has, an online business person or any website owner who is still not into social bookmarking using Digg is way behind in terms of online marketing and website promotion to create traffic for their sites.

Join Digg's huge community by creating an account. A user name and a password is all you need, which means that you get to enjoy Digg's services for free. Once you successfully become a Digg member, you get to submit news articles, videos, blog entries, funny pictures, etc. You also get to comment on other Digg users' submissions. Because your goal as an online marketer is to advertise your site and generate traffic for it, it is nothing but logical that the first story link that you are going to submit is your very own. Your should be to have your story link receive as many "diggs" as possible and to have it listed together with the other top submissions on Digg's front page. Once your story links get to the front page, expect a significant traffic for your site.

You can ask your friends and family to digg your story link, but the best way to receive diggs is by making your articles interesting and content-rich. A user would not bother to look into articles that neither entertain, interest, nor help them. Why bother go through a useless article when there are thousands to choose from? Yes, you are competing against thousands so bank on quality submission.

There is more exposure for your site if you join in the activities that are going around the Digg community. Digg and comment on other users' articles or stories, and you are making your own submissions more visible. Digg would have not called a social bookmarking site if you do not interact with the other users. When you have gained some friends, you can recommend to them your articles, hence, another promotion and traffic for your website.