Network to Beat Digg!

A while ago, I had an idea for a WP plug-in that allows specified people access to a private WP blog that contains details of stories to be dugg.

As I’m a member of numerous internet marketing forums, the idea was to network with a number of other forum members so we could digg our stories collectively. Because sometimes, an initial 20 or 30 votes may be just enough for an article to experience the snowball-effect and get on the front page if it’s creative, informative, and interesting.

It’s been noted many times that monetization of Digg traffic is extremely difficult. But, what’s important to me is the backlinks – the more the merrier. Front page stories can pick up a lot of links. And once you’ve got a site with a ton of links, you can easily abuse the trust that comes with those links – but that’s a future post!

So with this in mind I’m going to develop a WP plug-in/strategy that can be employed by webmasters to form Digg rings in order to get their stories dugg! You can share your thoughts about this idea by either commenting below or contacting me privately.

CL Smooth says:

July 25, 2007 at 12:33 am

Sounds like a good idea.

Nick says:

July 25, 2007 at 2:15 am

You’ll definitely want to devise a way to deal with the ‘direct to story’ linking. Digg has mentioned that they discount diggs that come from offsite pages as they are more likely to be spammy. If you could enforce your users to emulate ‘real digging’ (going through the categories on digg and ‘discovering’ the stories that way), then I think you’ll have much more success. I’d be interested in seeing how you implement such a plugin and how it compares to the current digg-gaming sites like subvert and profit.

wesley says:

July 25, 2007 at 6:54 am

What would be better is a firefox plugin that actually goes to digg.com/whatever/ first before going to the story page.

(automatically, in the background)

You could probably even make it to click automatically.

Ben Cruikshank says:

July 27, 2007 at 1:48 pm

This is a great idea, it really does seem like the initial 20 or so Diggs really sets things off properly. I’m definitely interested in participating in something like this.