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Using OBP to increase web traffic - Part II - Digg

Digg is a website made for people to discover and share content from anywhere on the Internet, by submitting links and stories, and voting and commenting on submitted links and stories, in a social and democratic spirit. Voting stories up and down is the site’s cornerstone function, respectively called digging and burying. Many stories get submitted every day, but only the most digged ones appear on the front page.

Digg’s popularity has prompted the creation of other social networking sites with a story submission and voting system.

Digg is obviously a great site to redirect free traffic to your site. I will show you in a subsequent post how you can use it to redirect free traffic. But for today i will show you how you can use digg to increase traffic to your site

Step 1 - Start An Account

If you haven’t got an account already click here. Plain obvious first step i feel silly for even saying it!

Step 2 - Fill out Your profile

This is an important step. When you fill out your profile you want to select the categories that only relate to your website. What i do is have an account specifically for my business interests and another for my personal use. The reason i have seperate accounts is so that the categories i am receiving are specific to my task at hand, which is to find blogs that are relevant that i can comment on so you get targeted free traffic

Digg will then start delivering to your profile a list of sites that have received the highest amount of diggs in their category.

Step 3 - Add some friends

As i said in my last post, by adding friends you will find sites that you will probably have never been able to create in your own mind. Digg doesn’t have a toolbar like stumbleupon, though users usually post via plugin that they have downloaded to their browsers. Alternatively they can click on links on a sites page or visit socialposter.com. So be clear in your mind about your niche and only add people that have an interest in your niche.

How do you find people that have similar interests to yours? Using your niche keywords, enter them into the search field provided .

With Digg, you can apply 3 advanced filters to your search, as well as include ‘buried’ sites, which are sites that users have perhaps not found so useful. I would encourage you to check buried sites because even though it has been buried, most likely is because the content perhaps didn’t meet the readers standard. I include it

Once the search results are returned, choose the site relevant to yours and click the yellow colored box like the one on the left. It will take you to a new page with a list of people who commented on it. Click on a person’s name and visit their page. Look at their content and decide whether the content they are ‘digging’ is relevant to you.

Digg also gives you an option to see ‘who dugg it’. Click on the tab to see a whole list of users that have dugg the site

There are alternate ways of finding friends like inviting them through email search etc but i believe the method above is the best, fastest, and most accurate way to find them

When you are done adding friends, Digg will feed your friends site to your profile. Simply click on the ‘friends activity’ button situated at the top of the site towards the right

Step 6 - Read my introductory post on this series cause we want to make an impact and don’t want to spam! Click here

Step 7 - Comment on relevant sites

Now you have three choices to choose when you are looking for sites to comment on. You can either do a keyword search, check your own profile page for the most dugg sites, or visit a friends profile to see what they are bookmarking! Either way, the goal here is to find sites that will increase the number of free traffic you get to your site

The final decision is yours, so choose the sites that are relevant, and remember this is an opportunity to show your an expert in this area so take your comment seriously and read my first post in this series.. and don’t forget to comment on them!

To your success

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