1. Spend some time exploring the Digg site before committing to a user account. Be sure you understand how Digg works.
2. Pay attention to user comments, and be prepared to respond as well as become an active part of the conversation.
3. Get a feel for how and why certain stories become popular. This will give you a better understanding of Digg, and also give you insight into how to make your stories and postings more popular.
4. Once you sign up for an account, plan to participate daily. A sometimes-on, sometimes-off attitude will make you appear uncommitted to fellow Diggers.
5. Try to accumulate as many friends as you can. Much like Twitter, you want as large of a network as possible. This way, you affect more people with your message and gain more feedback into what the Digg world wants.
6. Start a buddy list. This list is designed to give you a one on one ability within Digg. It allows IM use, but try to not use this feature too much or you’ll turn people off.
7. Create a thorough and complete profile of the ‘professional’ you – don’t get personal or too casual. Just like any other social marketing you use for business, this is the home base where people will be looking to find out who you are and what you’re about.
8. Hunt out the power users of the site and be friends with them. This is a huge help to you by association and for exposure.
9. Only submit content that is worth something. Don’t bombard the site or your page with worthless links and silly stories. Make sure they are interesting and relevant.
10. Send out shouts. On Digg, people can send out shouts to each other. This is the single best way to get noticed and to get some feedback, so send shouts often.
11. Keywords are very important. Just like any articles or information on your website, keywords are what get peoples’ attention, so think some through and then use them in your posting title and in your content.
12. Aim to become a top user. The top users on this website get the most notice.
13. Do your homework, find out what people are talking about, and expand on that with your own postings.
14. Learn the Digg lingo. Every website has its own unique lingo that users pick up on, so be sure you are in the know to fit in with this crowd.
15. Only keep friends who provide feedback, who link to you, and whom you can link to as well. Get rid of any friends who are just idle or who are not contributing.
16. Try to dedicate yourself to taking time each and every day to focus on content expansion and editing. Dedicating this time will really reflect on your profile.
17. Keep up on what the Digg users like and hate. For example, most Digg users love Apple, but hate Microsoft. Get a feeling for the pulse of what is popular.
18. There are more male than female users on Digg. ‘Work’ that to your advantage – you know you act differently in a room full of men vs. women socially – Digg is no different.
19. Relevant content on current topics (the environment, science, breaking news, politics, technology, and comedy) get noticed most. Brainstorm how you can relate those topics to your business.
20. Do not vote thumbs up on your own articles. This can raise a red flag and could potentially get your account removed.
21. Invoke curiosity with your story titles. This is your first line to people and the best way to get noticed and get some Diggs.
22. Descriptions are also important, so be sure to write these well and include important keywords.
23. Use real numbers instead of written numbers. This really does get more attention than a lot of people realize.
24. Try not to just comment on stories. Remember the purpose of Digg, and if you like something, Digg it!
25. Be a natural at keyword dropping without overuse. Too much of one keyword can drive people away. Digg users are savvy and will call your stories and titles spam – which it is.
26. Do not use any non-English websites or content. The temptation to post some Chinese language website links to reach out to global users might be really strong, but it’s not allowed on the website since it is an English speaking only site.
27. Subscribe to the RSS feed offered by Digg so you can keep up with the latest updates and see what is the most popular post.
28. Check the upcoming stories, link to other users’ posts, and push your way up to the top by making as many friends as you can.
29. Write about Digg. Although this may sound a little redundant, fans of Digg actually want to hear more about how to get the most out of the website.
30. Discuss the latest technology, since many people who use the site are big fans of the latest applications, websites, and electronics. Firefox noticed a large influx of users after people discussed them on Digg, and this can happen for your business as well.
31. Participate in the Digg Town Halls. The site now has occasional town hall style discussions, where you can share information, ask questions, and meet new users.
32. Be sure your content is a must see. Try to post things that have not been put up before, and make them intriguing and tantalizing. Again, this is where effective title writing comes into play.
33. Unlike some other sites, users on Digg do not like for you to ask for Diggs. Instead, let your content speak for itself.
34. Do not Digg every single thing you see. By Digging every little posting, you look less legitimate, and you’re giving certain people more credit than they actually deserve. The goal is to Digg content that is relevant and well put together, not just everyone’s postings.
35. Remind people to Digg your stuff from other sites, like your blogs and even your home page.
36. Submit a good amount of posts, but don’t overdo it. Some people will submit so much content every day that they overload the website and their profile. It’s not a attractive habit, and it can make people leery. Instead, only post a few, select things per day.
37. Think about the numbers involved with Digg, such as the number of hits per hour, number of buries, and the number of popular articles that have hit within the last day or so. All of these statistics and more are important and help you gain a better grasp of your progress.
38. Don’t try to do it all on your own. If you’re a very busy business owner or website host, recruit coworkers and friends to help post some things on Digg. As long as they follow your own personal guidelines for posting, it can be a huge help.
39. Be sure to include a picture for a thumbnail. Choose something that will get peoples’ attention and make a statement, as well as something that defines who you are.
40. Widgets are an awesome new way to get more people reading. These can be personalized so you can make them all your own, and they really add personality to your page.
41. Add the Digg button, image and all, to your company or personal website.
42. Numbered lists make for easy reading, and keep peoples’ interest. Write some content as a top 10 list, or other forms of numbered lists, which create small tidbits of information.
43. Keep in mind that the top 100 users on Digg control over half of the website’s content ranking. Pay close attention to what they are looking at and commenting on.
44. Be as unique and individual as you can. Try to stay with the feel of the site, but go against the flow with your content.
45. Be open. The users of Digg are pretty open, honest, and out there when it comes to how they feel about things. If you do not like something, don’t feel like you cannot express it. Just do so with a bit of discretion so you are not bashing people or businesses to the point of no return.
46. Focus on your audience, and decide what topics are of the most interest to them.
47. Do not make baseless claims. If you post some topics or information, do not make promises you cannot keep. It’s never a good idea to sound like a salesman or make pitches for things people may not want. Instead, entice them to your site to make a purchase with relevant content.
48. Utilize the newest buzz on Digg to your advantage. While you never want to copy others’ content, you can use the popular topics to give you fresh ideas that will draw people into your content.
49. Have fun. While the purpose of using Digg in this context is to expand your business and gain new contacts, remember to have fun!

As for my clients – they are primarily real-world shop owners, small service businesses, authors and the like. You know the type, normal people with ‘real’ businesses, not internet marketers that spend their working hours connected to the world wide web.

Nonetheless, the same reasons and rules apply to each of us, except the real world business owner has to do what an internet marketer can do in much shorter time (or contract the work out). These business owners do, after all, have a business to run.

Whether you’re a busy entrepreneur or an internet marketer who just wants to get the job of website traffic over with and spend more time with your family, I will be sharing tips and time-savers on accomplishing social marketing on this site.

I’ll be covering over 30 top social sites (and share my ins/outs and workarounds to each of them). Some of these may be smaller and up-and-coming sites while others are well known and have millions of registered users and visitors per month. You’ll find that of the sites I review, approximately:

• 92% have a Google Page Rank of 5/10 or higher
• 84% have a Google Page Rank of 6/10 or higher
• 64% have a Google Page Rank of 7/10 or higher
• 32% have a Google Page Rank of 8/10 or higher

And if Google’s page rank doesn’t impress you, perhaps you’d like to know these Alexa findings of some of the sites I’ll be featuring:

• 92% have an Alexa Traffic Rank in the top 35,000
• 60% have an Alexa Traffic Rank in the top 4,500
• 36% have an Alexa Traffic Rank in the top 500
• 16% have an Alexa Traffic Rank in the top 75
• 12% have an Alexa Traffic Rank in the top 10

What You Need to Do Now…

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I actually have quite a few topics to cover, 20+ top ranking websites, and I’ve kept quiet long enough.

For anyone who doesn’t know me yet I have been in virtual hiding for the last 8 months or so – not sharing any news of my tests in niche marketing and website traffic creation. In fact, even as I write this today, I am not entirely convinced that I will have the time to share everything with you before I have to leave again.

This seems to be my MO (modus operandis) launch a killer information product that helps hundreds, perhaps thousands of website marketers, delve back into seclusion, testing and monitoring new sources, and arise again in 8-10 months with new information to share with loyal followers.

It all started back in 2004. Today we’re just a day away from 2009. And my eight month sabbatical is over…

Stay tuned over the next few days as I add the content and information I’ve been hoarding and collecting these past months. For those of you who are already ‘hip’ on blogging with WordPress, you’ll love the new script I’m using – a membership plugin for WordPress that is just loaded with features!

One marketer in my circle has said that she has used this to make fast money with affiliate products, but I couldn’t promise you the same. Finding that fast opportunity may be hit or miss, but profiting in the long term doesn’t need to be, if you do this right. This technique, at any rate, is more effective for the long term.

I’m not about to teach you how to create Hub Pages or Squidoo Lens’ – just one facet of the process that will take your pages on either site and get you more bang for your buck (whether that’s earning money, clicks, search engine positioning, or all three).

I started playing around with this and after creating a quick Squidoo lens for a new niche, I found that within just a few days I was receiving traffic to a test page from that lens as well as earning money through a low level affiliate payout program.

I set out on a mission to discover how and why it worked so fast that very day…

Knowing HubPages had similar features to Squidoo it didn’t take much to test this process there as well. However since I started experimenting with this, Squidoo/Google have halted PR on tag pages…more later, if this changes.

Let me just show you what’s going on with HubPages, traffic and PR. Be sure to read each caption under the images to get the point…

Your Hub Page can have PR, (the one above has a PR2), and an outgoing link - to your own website - that passes PR!

Tag pages (example shown above) have PR, and pass PR! Tag Pages are important to know about...

A HubPages' profile page can have PR as well as its own traffic source. Profile pages also pass PR!

What You Need to Know and Do

1. When creating your profile be sure to add links to your actual website.
2. When creating your hub pages be sure to include your website url.
3. Choose your tags wisely.

The Strategy of Tagging on HubPages

To receive traffic in the shortest period of time to your hub page (and to maximize the potential for search engine ranking) you want to tag your hub page with the highest ranked tags.

This means that you will need to know your market well and spend 5 minutes or so surfing tag pages.

Let me give you some examples why this may be important:

Here is the tag page for photography (opens in a new window)- http://hubpages.com/tag/photography/hot (PR3 at time of writing)

Obviously that was a good choice for a tag on digital camera content.

There are better choices, but there are also worse, and if you’re not careful in your selection you could be missing out!

Staying with the camera theme, look at these related tag pages and their PR:

1. http://hubpages.com/tag/digital+camera/hot (PR0)
2. http://hubpages.com/tag/digitalcamera/hot (PR0)
3. http://hubpages.com/tag/digital+cameras/hot (PR0)
4. http://hubpages.com/tag/canon/hot (PR2)
5. http://hubpages.com/tag/pictures/hot (PR4)
6. http://hubpages.com/tag/photos/hot (PR4)
7. http://hubpages.com/tag/technology/hot (PR5)

You might have easily selected the first four if you hadn’t done some investigative research first. And you would have missed out on the tagging potential of HubPages.

Whenever you build a hub page, surf through some of the related tag pages and choose the best ones for the biggest bang to your hub page and subsequently, your website.

But wait!

There is more to tags on Hub Page that you need to know.

Tag pages only display 10 hubs per page.
Some tag pages have multiple pages.
None (that I have seen) pass rank to subsequent pages (page 2, page 3, etc. results).

For example, a tag page and the ‘page 2′ for that tag…
http://hubpages.com/tag/technology/hot (PR5)
http://hubpages.com/tag/technology/hot?page=2 (PR0)

Over 320 tag pages exist for technology.

None, but the first, are passing PR. And like Google listings, very seldom does anyone click on any listing past page 2 of the results anyway.

Let’s be upfront here. You’re not building hubpages so that you can be the new Hub Super Star. You do want to build a hub that:

1. contains your keywords,
2. links back to your money site,
3. passes some page rank, and/or
4. builds your brand.

You don’t want to spend time fighting, clawing, promoting and tweaking a HubPage to become #1 for the technology tag.

It might be nice for bragging rights, but it is not worth the fight or time.

So…

Even though you may have minimal chance at being on the first page of a tag page, if the tag PR is good (has a PR5 or higher) I suggest you to do it anyway.

Here’s why.

Although page 2 results for ‘technology’ have a PR0.

And sorting (see the image below) by ‘Best’ shows a PR0.

Look for this sorting feature and click it to uncover easy PR gold.

The sort ‘Latest’ has a PR3! (http://hubpages.com/tag/technology/latest)

So even though you may never be #1 in technology, your hub page will still be connected to that tag and for a time you will be receiving a PR3 link to your hub page…which in turn links to your profile and your money site.

Okay, got that?

Don’t go yet…there’s more!

If the best you can hope for is a ‘Latest’ listing for a high PR tag page on HubPages, I urge you to tell the world, search engines included, by quickly pinging that page’s RSS feed. (A ping is a notification to the update services that a page has changed.)

How you ping is up to you. I use a small desktop software application and ping multiple aggregators at once. If you don’t have software or any experience pinging, just head over to pingomatic.com, enter the rss url and call it a day. 25 update services are notified through Ping-O-Matic and yes, it’s free.

Tell 25 updating services, including Google, that you have a new hub page!

 Now go get busy building better HubPages and tag them intelligently for extra traffic, branding and link love!

- Web 2.0 HubPages and Squidoo Tag Pag Finder -
If you don’t want to perform the above research, but you do want to target the busiest tag pages on HubPages and Squidoo, you might like this software. Click here or watch the video below to see how it works.

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