Where to Filter those Friend Diggs
Digg’s got you down ’cause they banned all your accounts again? Well never fear, because a better method is here (oh man, that sounds cheesy).
Here’s the strategy you want to use when emailing friends and asking for a helpful Digg bump. First off, don’t send them the Digg URL in an email. The Digg crowd is very savvy and a dead giveaway of manipulation is a bunch of people digging a story when their first visit during a session came to a particular story page.
Instead, use this strategy – email your friends with a link to the story and have the Digg link embedded at the top of the page. Ask that they click that link, then Digg the story from there. It’s much more natural to have a bunch of visits coming from the piece, back to the Digg story, bumping up the votes than anything else.
As always, watch out for patterns – don’t have everyone Digg it all at once (though email checking times should dodge that) and send it to a geographically diverse group. If everyone’s IP address is in Boise, ID, the Digg editors are going to be suspicious. Don’t send it to too many folks (more than 5) who’ve never Dugg something before. You want nice, natural profiles of regular users contributing to your votes.
You really only need a bump of 10-20 folks before you stand out from the crowd enough to be considered by the wider Digg audience.
