Getting on Top of Digg can be a really challenging task. The beauty of Digg is that same IP can’t access multiple Digg accounts. So, one can’t design a bot to do this dirty task. Over the years several other social bookmaking services had emerged, many were clones of Digg, but none of them got as successful. This article will tell you some legal ways to increase your probability of getting on top of Digg.

Advantages of Being at the Top

What is the advantage of being at the top of Digg? Answer is pretty simple, traffic. More traffic means more revenues and more probability of getting in-links. It can take months for a quality article to show up on search engines, but with Digg things are different. You can instantly advertise you articles and if your article comes in the top list, even at the bottom, you get thousands of visitors!

What Type of Content to Write?

This is a pretty tough question to answer and in fact there is no hard and fast rule for this. Anyway, these are some ideas and tricks that will increase the success rate of your articles on Digg:

• Active social network: You should have a network of friends on Digg. A friend is more likely to Digg the content you submit. Some people make a group of hundreds of diggers to get on top!
  
• Write on hot issues: For example it’s the US election season so half of the Diggs are on election news. In holiday season you can write about topics related to holiday shopping and write product reviews.
  
• Attract a fan base: There are lots of “fans” in the world. For example apple has large fan base and writing articles about iPhone or iPod is most likely to succeed. You can also go for gaming fans by writing about Halo 3. You can also target Microsoft, Yahoo, and Google etc. You can even write about Paris Hilton or Britney Spears!
  
• Make you title attractive: Most people ignore this fact, but title is the first impression of the article. Many people dig an article having an attractive title. They even don’t bother to read it, or plan to read it afterwards.
  
• Make top lists: This is another interesting type of articles that get most digs. You can make top 10 lists like “Top 10 gadgets of 2008”, “Top 10 movies of 2008”, “Worst products ever” etc. “To do” and “How To” guides also become very popular on Digg.
  
• Be the first: Half of the articles on Digg top list are latest news items. So if you are first to report breaking news your success rate will be pretty high.
  
• World Issues: Write about global warming, HIV and bird flu etc. Environment related articles usually get more diggs.
  
• Report a bug: Report a bug or flaw in a hardware or software product. Chances are that it will attract large amount of consumers and diggers.

Can you handle the Traffic?

This is a very important issue. Many websites are hosted on shared servers so they get short of bandwidth allocated. Hence they are unable to get on top even they had to potential to be on top! Solution for this is to use optimized scripts and caching mechanisms that all the good CMS have. A bit expensive solution to this problem is to upgrade your hosting plan.