As Seen On Alien TV: The 10 Duplicatable Habits of Successful Diggers!

Digg is a place for people to discover and share the content from any where on the web. The content posted on the digg is not only taken from the most popular and content rich websites but also from the blogs with high quality articles, even though there are people who share their poor quality stuffs there LOL…

It allows it’s users to share the content and takes the best stories and cool pictures and awesome videos to the front page where thousands of people can see it within a couple of hours. them based on their performance, this is a place, which allows the users to determine the value of content, and it changes the way in which people consume information online.

How digg manages information from the news to videos and from images to products? Management here comes from the users, there are some key issues to be managed in order to make one community most popular digger.

It’s quite important to know the habits of most of the diggers, sharing of information can strive out to give enormous benefits for the site and also for the people who join in.

As seen on Alien TV (don’t ask how we managed to do it), TOP diggers have the following habits:

1. Adding Valuable Friends: For an efficient digg profile it’s important to add friends who are having a helping nature, friends from various places and areas, with sound knowledge and systematic ways of approach can help a network to improve and become popular. Search for a friend from various communities like, news reading, information writing etc will be of sound help and improves your network.
2. Efficient RSS Reader: RSS readers always helps in keeping you up-tp-date about the latest news and content, when ever something of quality is published, there are hundreds and thousands of people who wishes to submit it first, under this circumstances there should be a tool in order to help you to be the first to submit it. Hence popular RSS readers like Feed Demon and Google Reader can be of much help. Google reader is a high performance RSS reader as compared to Feed Demon. Google reader has a button called as “mark as all read” which helps in detecting unread articles by the user, and points it or highlights it so that user reads it.
3. Quality Content Acts As a Backbone For Digg: Any website or a network is said to be a failure if it does not have good quality content. Most of the people who visit the site should know what the content really is, or what the use of this site is? Any site with much ease of understanding the content and efficient rich content will surely be a success in the market, especially for a digg, as it’s a social network where sharing information is crucial. So much care has to be taken in order to make it popular and efficient.
4. Profile and Contact: Completing the profile perfectly, and providing all the instant messenger details, helps in making good friends in the network. It makes a person popular in the network, and rich friend circle always helps in maintaining good results in the network. This can assist in updating the information easily and increases the readability by most of the people. Sharing and discussing stories with friends and chatting with them can solely increase your knowledge.
5. Keep Track of Your Friends: Adding your friends on a RSS feed reader can allow you track what your friends are submitting and help you digg them easily. You can also use the Greasemonkey addon for making it easier for you to digg. You may also consider to collect the instant messengers of your friends if possible.
6. Remove Non-digging Friends: Friends of less importance should be removed social awareness is created with the help of good friend circle, friends who never contribute to your own network should be removed. If they do not stay active with your activity on Digg then there is really no point keeping them on your friend’s list. Also remove those whom you don’t know because if you will keep filling your friend’s list with people whom you do not know then it will be really difficult to keep track of items that your true friends submit.
7. The Magic is in Title Have an attractive title and a good description of submission because most of the diggers digg a story just by reading the title and they do not even go through the whole story. The eye catcher title is the main key to bolster its acceptance by the digg community. Most of the time catchy and attractive titles hit the front page of digg.
8. Digg tools and Add-ons: If you really want to use digg efficiently like a power user then you must use the digg tools. Do not get carried away with the eye candy applications out there but try to use essential and effective tools that can enhance your proficiency for using digg such as Digg Alerter, Smart Digg Firefox Extension, Google Reader Digg News, Digg Friends Easier and many more.
9. Active on Other Social Media Sites: Active diggers are always active on many other social media sites. There is no hidden secret in this fact that social media sites strengthen your online marketing strategy. Connect to other social media sites such as Facebook, MySpace, StumbleUpon, Reddit etc. to disseminate ideas and attract traffic and links. If you are an active member of multiple social media sites you can simultaneously submit your news to all the sites with the help of Social Media for Firefox Extension.
10. Rinse and Repeat: This is one of the great concepts that is to be implemented while making out a digg. ‘Rinse’ is applied to the content to make it crisper and clear whereas ‘Repeat’ here indicates that you must make the digg new and rich with good content to make it popular and interactive with more communities. If rinsed properly and repeated continuously, digg gains most of the popularity that was intended.

Changes are most common in this socio economic world, every day many sites and networks are emerging on Internet and Digg.com is one of them. Hence, Digg is all about attracting users in a fast moving environment with lots of competing links. Rich content, good user interaction, frequent updates are some of the key factors that can make a social network popular and successful. A digg having habits as mentioned above is said to be best digger ever seen.