Getting
Immediate Targeted Traffic From
Digg-Like Sites
Digg-style
sites continue to go vertical into
specific niches and markets. And
they can generate a lot of free
targeted traffic if you use them
and understand how they work.
As
far as the original Digg itself,
you can still do very well there
IF you get to the front page, but
it is now less and less likely the
average person will ever see the
front page since Digg has grown
to be a behemoth website.
Without
gaming their system, which more
and more people are trying to do,
you have to rely more on luck than
simply writing a good piece to get
attention.
And
don't forget that you have to write
in a category they provide, which
effectively eliminates hundreds
of topics and market niches.
Digg
has added more categories, but they
are anything but comprehensive and
their readership is, at heart, still
made up of geeks and technophiles.
So
good luck getting your "Healthy
Eating Habits of Highly Successful
Women" piece on the front page
of Digg.
Which
is why so many people are starting
niche-specific Digg-like sites which
work in the same way but are targeted
to a specific niche, like Digg was
in the beginning.
For
internet marketing related content,
people are finding places like PlugIM.com
and MarkTD.com are sending them
more traffic than Digg ever has.
(Including me.)
Mainly
because many Digg users have a pretty
strong hatred of marketing content
and they have nothing more than
a general "Business" category
for people like us to publish in.
Which
is why PlugIM and MarkTD along with
a handful of other niche story sites
are doing so well so fast.
If
you publish in another niche, don't
worry. You will start seeing Digg-like
sites popping up in all niches this
year, if you haven't already found
one in your niche.
Just
as article directories were only
for marketing content in the beginning,
so too are the new Digg sites.
It
is only a matter of time before
you can start seeing almost instant
targeted traffic from a site like
Digg in your niche.
So
there are two things to pay attention
to here:
1)
You should consider building your
own Digg for your niche and gaining
all the traffic from the hundreds
or thousands of writers and bloggers
in that niche. There are lots of
scripts popping up out there that
do what you need.
and
2)
You should look for "vertical"
Diggs and publish there before you
go to Digg itself because you will,
most likely, get more traffic from
verticals than the almighty Digg
even though they are so darn BIG.
About the Author
Jack Humphrey is the editor of The
Friday Traffic Report at http://www.jackhumphrey.com
and has started a new Digg-style
news site for internet marketing
content at http://www.jackhumphrey.com/imnews
