What is Digg?

Mukesh Kumar Sharma

SEO Internet Marketing Expert

Digg is a place for people to discover and share content from anywhere on the web. From the biggest online destinations to the most obscure blog, Digg surfaces the best stuff as voted on by our users. You won’t find editors at Digg — we’re here to provide a place where people can collectively determine the value of content and we’re changing the way people consume information online.

Take a Quick Tour of Digg

How do we do this? Everything on Digg — from news to videos to images — is submitted by our community (that would be you). Once something is submitted, other people see it and Digg what they like best. If your submission rocks and receives enough Diggs, it is promoted to the front page for the millions of our visitors to see.

The Benefits of Digg:

The pros of using Digg are:

Digg is the most popular social news site on the Internet.
Digg can drive a lot of traffic to your blog if your blog post gets to the main page.
Digg can help you find interesting blog posts and blogs.
Digg can help you network with like-minded bloggers by sharing submissions and commenting on each other's submissions.

The Negatives of Digg:

The cons of using Digg are:

It's hard to get your blog posts on the main page of Digg.
Top users control much of what gets on the main page of Digg.
Traffic that comes from Digg is generally short-lived
Spam content finds its way on Digg frequently.
People pay the top users and other companies to generate diggs for content and move it to the main page of Digg leaving less chance for your posts to get to the main page.
Digg does not like it when users submit their own pages or blog posts and will penalize users who do so too frequently.

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