Advanced SEO Technique for Your New Website - Digg It

By kimberly • on July 23, 2008 • Filed under: SEO

Have you been told that it takes weeks or months to get a new site ranked in Google? I am here to tell you that it is flatout wrong.

A part of any new website plan is to create a buzz about your website. The goal is to start generating traffic and you do not have to wait until Google tells you when you should get traffic. It is not unethical or immoral to start promoting your website both online and offline. In fact, your website does not have to be listed in Google to start promoting it. You can begin driving traffic to your site before Google has even visited your page.

The use of social media is the way that this is done. Using websites such as Digg, Fark, and Technorati can help you generate traffic. Why? Because these sites receive millions of visitors each day for one. Secondly, due to the fact that social media sites have high page ranks and their content is changing literally every second, the search engines are always pinging these sites for content.

Google loves Digg. Just like they love Wikipedia. Google likes it so much that new content posted to the site can get indexed immediately.

The website is Digg.com, a community of users who discover and share the content they’ve found on the web with each other.

To become a user and post content, you must first register. Although many people post stories found everywhere on the web, Digg does allow you to post some of your own content as long as you don’t over do it.

You basically write a brief description of the article you have on your own site. The title of the story you post is a link that goes directly to the article page of your site.

Google will find your new content through this link and index it. Visitors from Google will then find your web page while doing their searches.

This all can happen within 24 hours, usually less… It sounds unbelievable because we’ve all been brainwashed to expect it to take much longer.

If your site has a topic people on Digg.com have an interest in, you should expect to also get traffic directly from them.

Users on Digg.com who like your post will visit your site and vote on it by giving it a Digg. The more Diggs you get, the potential for your story to move up or get promoted under its topic page on the Digg website increases.

If users don’t like your story, they can bury it. It’s the users or community who decide if a story should be promoted or buried. Digg does not use editors, because it believes it’s voting and user-reporting system will determine what content should remain on the site.

When you use Digg.com, it’s important to follow their rules or TOS. Post unique quality content worth sharing and don’t get caught spamming or creating multiple accounts. Additionally, the site is composed of mostly techies and geeks and they are very protective about their digg spot. So if they suspect that your site is spammy, they will give you a thumbs down and you can get archived very quickly.

The message is that you must implement search engine strategies through moderation and not jump out there and burn a domain name. Moderation is the key.

Digg.com is just one of the many social media sites that you can use to start generating traffic immediately.

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