Natespost

   How many times have you submitted a post to Digg only to see it get buried before you can refresh the page? After much research, I have discovered that it may or may not be because your post stunk. Many a good post or article from a lower traffic blog gets buried in the Digg landfill before it gets a chance to get off the ground. There are two reasons for this.

1. Your blog doesn’t have the existing mass traffic (possible diggers) to push it from the upcoming category to the hot category.
2. You have no friends.

   By #2, I don’t mean that you are a reclusive hermit. I mean you aren’t playing the Digg game on a level playing field. Digg submissions need a certain number of diggs in order to remain in the game. If you don’t get around 20 diggs or so, your submission will just trickle down the upcoming list and never make it to the hotlist, which results in 10 or 15 hits max. Now I am not recommending that you engage in what is known as a “digg circle” which can get your digg account and possibly your blog banned. What I am recommending is that you add friends to your digg account and send them a shoutout when you submit a post. This will keep your submission from being buried before it has a chance to compete.

   How to make digg friends? Look at articles in your niche, and click on the profiles of the users that have dugg them, then add them as a friend. You will learn that even though you add them, they many times will not reciprocate. So to help us all get started, add me (ellie123) as your friend, and I will reciprocate. Also, add any of my friends that you see. Anyone that is listed as my friend will have originated from this post, so there should be no problem with people not adding you in turn.