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1. Importance of the Title and the Topic:- The title of the story must be eyecatching and tempting people to read it out. Perhaps the title is the single most important factor which leads to a person clicking the article and visiting the site. The second thing is the topic. If you write a 1000 words article on the topic “How is Diabetes Treated ?”, OR a 200 words on “Why is my company so great ?” it will probably never attract the interest of people. First thing is no one is going to read 1000 words on diabetes (a small fraction of digg users are suffering diabetes actually ) and probably no one will be interested to know why is your company so great. You need to write topics which immediately create a buzz in the eyes of the people and they are tempted to read it and after reading the first 50 words, they become so interested that they digg the story and read the other parts. Once few people dugg your story, it catches momentum, more people start digging it and within minutes it goes viral and turned into popular.
2. Keep the Content Short and Interesting :- No one would like to read a 1000 words article. People look for short informative, humorous and interesting pieces of content.
3. Numbered Lists are great :- It has been noticed that numbered lists work wonders on sites like digg.com. Interesting lists could be “10 Reasons you should eat a lot of choclates”, “17 Reasons why laptops are better than wives” , “15 Tricks to drive massive traffic to your website”, “101 Tips for successful blogging” etc. are found to hit the homepage instantly.
4. Your Digg Profile :- The single and the most important factor which carries 90% weight and is more important than all the above factors. Its is how strong your digg profile is. Okay take a bit time to read this piece from Rand Fishkin which says that Top 100 Digg Users Control 56% of Digg’s HomePage Content. Guess what ? it is true. If your digg profile is very strong, then you submit a story and and it instantly gets noticed by all famous digg users and undergoes a spontaneous reaction. So the next question is what does a strong profile mean and how to make your profile strong. Okay Christopher Finke has a list of top 100 digg users. Do have a quick look at the list and you will find what makes your profile strong. Its 5 things -
1. Number of stories submitted
2. Number of stories which became popular
3. Popularity Ratio which is the percentage of your submitted stories which became popular. Kevin Rose is the only person who has 100% popularity ratio. Means all the stories which he submitting went popular. Well for those who don’t know Kevin Rose is the founder - CEO if Digg :D
4. The number of stories you dugg
5. The number of distinct people who viewed your profile.
Out of these 5, point number 3 is the most important and point number 5 is least important. You can find all these numbers on your digg profile page right sidebar bottom.
Okay now the question arises is that, how do you build your profile very strong. The answer is simple, its social networking website so focus on the word social. Digg other’s popular stories, add good members to your friends list. Read and comment on other’s stories. Submit good stories to the site (Not necessarily from your own website). If you find a good story on on a big site like CNN, then submit it too. There are more chances that it will quickly make to front page. If it makes to the front page, people view your profile and you ass a friend increasing your credibility. If you follow these then after a few months, you will be able to make it to the top 50 digg users and then any story you submit will again undergo a spontaneous reaction providing you extreme high traffic on your fingertips.