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Need a good content from the internet? As an alternative of using search engines and going through hundreds of sites until you find one, there is Digg.

Digg (digg.com) is a site where you can find contents (sites, things, stories, info) that others have found (or dug) from the internet. Found by Kevin Rose in 2004. Basically you can do two things on dig; submitting and digging.

Submitting. If you find something interesting you can submit it to dig. Categorize it and comment it if you want. Digging. You read a story others have submitted. You like it? Vote or endorse it. Doesn’t like it? Mark it as duplicate, spam, wrong topic, inaccurate or (even) lame. Give comments if needed, unleash your rage. Bury it.

Digg.com has thousands and thousands of visitors from all over the world in a day. So anything in the front page will reach thousands of readers. Think about the publication you may get there. That’s why internet marketers orbiting around it. Be in the front page is a holy grail for some.

Certain things must be fulfilled to be in the Digg’s front page. And a bad story may get buried faster than you can reboot your computer. Digg’s “to-be-in the-front-page” algorithm is a big secret. According to Kevin Rose, in his interview with the Marketing Shift, Sept 2006, several factors are taken into considerations, some of it are:
- how many people digg the story
- diggers reputation, that is. diggers seniority and activities (as a digger)
- time of day, day of the week that the articles are submitted and the number of times it was buried
- category (a popular or not-so-popular category)
- penalty for groups (or “gangs”) who have patterns of consistently digging the same stories.

So that’s Digg. For a good beginner’s guide to Digg, here is a great article by Neil Patel of Pronet Advertising. Take a visit, Beginner’s Guide to Digg.

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