Social Media has become mainstream these days. The users are becoming more smarter and more conscious about their presence on the social media sites. So, you can always find a same user on many social media and networking sites. The success of social media has changed the scenario of the Internet Marketing today. Many of the Internet Marketers are trying to establish their presence on various social media sites. So, they make profiles on the various social media sites to get respect and fame.

But, there are only some users who use all of the social media sites actively and effectively. Here I am going to talk about the relationship of the top three social media sites I use; Digg, Reddit and StumbleUpon. In most of the cases the popular contents are same on all of the three.

Content Flow For Digg, Reddit and StumbleUpon:

Content flow is a complicated process. I can not explain it very easily so here I am giving an overview on the content flow. Generally Digg and Reddit are the social news sites. On Digg and Reddit users prefer to share news and then they like to share images and other cool stuffs in the process of reducing their boredom. So, in most of the cases news are driven to StumbleUpon from Digg and Reddit.

And the images and other cool stuffs are driven to Digg and Reddit from StumbleUpon. Here, I would also like to say that from few days I’m watching that images and cool stuffs that are submitted to Reddit and StumbleUpon are driven from each of the social media sites. Meaning, some of the stuffs are driven to Reddit from StumbleUpon and vice versa.

In case of Digg, images and the cool stuffs are driven to digg from Reddit and StumbleUpon, if we except some of the content which are asked to submit by some users on these sites. (All the content flow is for those content which become popular on all the three sites)

Why Most Of the Reddit Popular Stories Become Popular on Digg Easily and Only Some of the Digg Popular Stories Got Hot on Reddit??

Reddit is a real social media but Digg is a mix of social media and networking, this is the reason that most of the Reddit popular stories hit FP of Digg. Here I am explaining that what actually happens? When any story goes popular on Reddit that’s because it’s worth it because you don’t know who is up voting the story and who is down voting it. So, here networking fails! If the content is good then it will surely go popular on Reddit, because you can not network and get 1000s of up votes on Reddit. Even if you have managed to get a story on front page, and the story is not good enough, people down vote the story and it will be put out from the Reddit’s front page within few hours.

So, those stories which are popular on Reddit when they are submitted on Digg, get natural votes plus friendly votes (these type of votes are only accumulated by networking, because you digg their stuffs so they digg yours). So, there is more chances of it hitting the front page of Digg.

When we talk about Digg’s popular stories which go to Reddit, then there are less chance for that story to become popular on Reddit. I have already told that Digg is mix of social media and networking. On Digg the stories are voted by the friends no one knows if that story is good because the friends usually don’t read the submissions of their friends. So, only some of the stories do well on Reddit that are submitted from Digg.

Some Etiquette For The Users of These Three Social Media Sites

There are many good users who are doing well on all these three social media sites. They share good content and make us more knowledgeable with their contributions. I appreciate them, and here I am sharing their secrets which make them different from other users. Please use these social media etiquette because these are followed by the top users.

1. Like Things Globally:

If you like something then it can not be changed with the place. So, if you come across any content on any social media site and you liked it then it means that whenever you’ll see that content you will like it there as well.

For example if you have seen an article on Reddit and voted it up means you liked that article. If that article is submitted on Digg then you’ll probably digg that article too because content is same only platform is changed. Discover that article on Stumble or thumb up that article if already submitted.



There are several tools to help you in the process. If you are a user of all the three social media sites then you must use Digg Firefox Extension and StumbleUpon Toolbar. These tool bars really help when you work with these three social media sites.

If you open the article which is submitted on Reddit and popular there and you like that, when you open that article the Digg Firefox Extention will let you know if that article is submitted on Digg or not. And if that article is submitted then you may cast your vote from toolbar and appreciate the good content.



And there is a StumbleUpon toolbar available that will help you to thumb up that article.








2. Share Good Stuffs:

Social media users like good stuffs because some of them use Internet for their knowledge and some of them use it to overcome their boredom. Submitting good content, images and other stuffs may help you gain more followers and fans.

Most of the Top Digg users use Reddit as a source here are some of the examples which shows that the top Digg users submit the popular content of Reddit on Digg.

Reddit Story:

Submitted on Digg By MrBabyMan



Reddit Story:

Submitted on Digg by Sanduu



Reddit story:

Submitted on Digg by XDVX





3. Add Those People Who are Your Friends on Other Social Sites:

Friends are friends always, anywhere and at any place. So, people who are your friends on Digg if you find them on Reddit or on StumbleUpon you must show appreciation to them and also add them in your profile and don’t forget to message them about it.

Suppose you are using two social sites and if you are good on both the social sites then you should add that user who is your friend from first social site even he/she is not doing well on second social site. Because, If any user is doing well on one social media site and not so well on the other, then it doesn’t mean that he/she can not make good profile on the other. If you add them and people will see the good users like you in his/her profile then they will also get attention there. This will grow your network and also help you because, you will get a good follower in your network.

In the era of web 2.0 social networking is very important. Social Networking focuses on building the online communities where people can share and discover their ideas and interests. People come there to know the ideas of other people to make them better by gaining some knowledge from the community. In this way many social networking and news sites was came in sight in this decade. But, some major sites capture the market and became brand name of social networking. Here I have mentioned some of them.

Digg is a website where people who involved in Internet and seeks or likes the news to read and share come there. People discover and share content from anywhere on the Internet generally here news are shared frequently. People contribute in the community by voting the links of the stories and news submitted here. When the story get some good counts of the digg then it appears on the HomePage of Digg. These stories are called popular stories there.

Digg team has made an algorithm which regulates the digg frontpage data. There are some moderators who pushes the story on the frontpage when story gets the attention of the users.

Understanding The Methodology:

Here people submit the links from the Internet, and people vote them according to their liking and disliking. Initially articles appears in the upcoming pages. When it gets the proper attention of users and gain good number of diggs then it get into the Hot widget which appears in the side bar of the upcoming pages.

There are many resources available on the Internet to describing the strategy to follow on Digg. These tactics are based on the proper research and facts.

Top 10 Digg Tactics
15 Ways to become a Digg Power user in only 48 hours
How to get a front page Digg?
How to Get Popular on Digg: Comment Case-Study

StumbleUpon is an online social community, here people discover and rate content or web pages, photos, and videos. It is a personalized recommendation engine which is launched recently. Its Recommender systems form a specific type of information filtering technique that attempts to present information items (news, images, web pages) that are likely of interest to the user. Its recommender system compares the user’s profile to some reference characteristics, and seeks to predict the ‘rating’ that a user would give to an item they had not yet considered.

On Stumble Web pages are presented when the user clicks the “Stumble!” button on the browser’s toolbar. StumbleUpon chooses which Web page to display based on the user’s ratings of previous pages, ratings by his/her friends, and by the ratings of users with similar interests. Users can rate or choose not to rate any Web page with a thumbs up or thumbs down, and clicking the Stumble button resembles “channel-surfing” the Web. There is also one-click blogging built in as well.

Understanding The Methodology:

Here on stumble people discover the content and this content is derived by them between their friends. When people like the content then they Thumb Up and add their reviews.

How to start with Stumble? Get more details in these posts:

Start with StumbleUpon
How To Get Blog Traffic from StumbleUpon
10 ways how to get traffic from StumbleUpon
How to increase StumbleUpon traffic?
StumbleUpon and How to drive Traffic

Reddit is a social news website on which people posts the links from the web. Other users Vote Up or Vote Down according to the content quality of the link. This process of Voting Up and Voting Down causing these links to appear more or less prominently on the Reddit home page.

The site provides the area for discussion on the submitted links, people discuss about the links by commenting. If some like or dislike the comment then they may Vote Up or Vote Down the comment too. By submitting the links and getting some vote ups users gain Karma points which increases their profile strength.

Understanding the Methodology:

Reddit is another social site where generally people like technical stories. If the content is best then only reach and stays on the reddit frontpage. There are also many blogs which has covered the tactics to get the frontpage of reddit.

Reddit - Everything You Ever Wanted to Know About It
How to Really Get on the Reddit Frontpage
How To Get On The Reddit Homepage

Mixx is also a social media site which helps the users to submit and discover the content from the Internet. It combination of social networking, Social bookmarking, web syndication and blogging.

On Mixx users can make their unique start page by submitting, voting the content and joining the different communities which they like. Same as the other social media sites users vote for the stories and comment for the discussion. Here users also get the ‘Karma’ points by their activity on the Mixx. Mixx users can influence the flow of incoming media and recommend relevant media to other users within specific categories like business, sports and health using either free-form or pre-determined meta tags to define items by subject matter or geography.

Understanding The Methodology:

Mixx is fast growing social networking site and recently its traffic beat the reddit traffic and came in competition with Digg. There are also various resources available about the Mixx.

ow To Get More And More Karma Points In Mixx
Using Mixx To Create Strong Backlinks
Finding the Value in Mixx
Social Network Mixx Increasing Popularity

Propeller is social media site as same as the Digg. It was previously known as Netscape.com, it is operated by AOL-Netscape. Here users can vote for the stories which they like and these stories (which get more votes) will appear on the frontpage of the site, from where these stories are viewed by many of the users.

The previous version of Propeller was released to mixed reactions. Some users liked that they had more participation ability while others found the pages to be harder to navigate and not as structured. Soon after the release of the new site, a story entitled “Netscape’s Blunder” was the top rated story.

Understanding The Methodology:

If you are coming here here for getting traffic then it is not better thinking. Propeller does not drive more traffic towards site but propeller is good for the linkbaiting articles, you can get more links than the traffic here.

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.