How Can Digg Help your Traffic?

Before we start discussing how Digg can help, if you don’t have a Digg account go ahead and signup and have a look around so that his section will make sense to you. If you are already a Digg expert, do feel free to contribute. It hardly takes 2 minutes to sign up at Digg. Many webmasters and SEO professionals use Digg to get links for their website and to get noticed by search engines faster.

Digg allows you to share an article or news item to the online community through its robust platform. There are thousands of Digg messages every hour. When you are sharing a news article the article’s title will be linked to your website or blog where you have the original article. So you make sure to keep your title catchy because that is what other Digg users get to see. Of course there will be a short description about the news article which explains briefly what the news article is about. First of all the title you select should be captivating and it should be containing the keywords that you think people will be using to search your news article. For example you want to share some weight loss article and say you want to link a unique article on “Cortisol Craving” then give a captivating title with cortisol craving in it if that is the keyword for which you would like to gain visibility. If you have an appropriate title for your web page or blog, then you would have created a very good contextual link for your website.

One of the problems here is that there is a very high flow of submissions every second your submission will be moving down by 10 to 15 counts so in no time your Digg item will be pushed down the line however, Google will still find you and will track your submission. When people use those keywords that are found in your Digg post you have a high chance of featuring in Google search. This result can be highly fluctuating and at times it may disappear very quickly if there is an over powering submission with the same keywords.

While choosing your Digg posts you must keep content that are not time bound. If you submit a post that is time sensitive say for instance a celebrities 23rd birthday, the post and the traffic to such a post is going to be short lived. On the other hand you will be able to get a steady traffic through Digg if you keep your post useful to the user irrespective of time factor. For example sharing an article on ‘Stress and Weight Loss’; people are bound to search for this item even after 10 years. Your Digg post may not feature after 10 years but the point that is being made here is clear.

So Digg does help you in getting a quality link for your site and at the same time it drives some decent traffic to your website.

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