I’ve spent a considerable amount of time over the last 6 months diving into the world of social media and in particular, Digg.com. Everyone knows the benefit of getting on the front page of Digg is the massive amount of traffic and potentially some residual links from those that really enjoyed your submission. I never really considered that the wording and timing of a Digg submission would have such an impact on how many links it would attract.
There are many articles and tutorials about how to become a top user and get on the front page of Digg but if your ultimate goal is attracting links, how do you maximize your submission’s potential to gain links? That’s where Dan Zarrella, social media consultant, steps in.
Maximize Your Digg Submissions Link Potential
Dan took 33,322 of the 39,000 stories that went popular on Digg in 2007 an analyzed them beyond my comprehension. I was fortunate enough to get a sneak peak at his report and in it you’ll find all the information you need to maximize your link building efforts via Digg including the best categories and sub-categories to submit to, what day of the week and time of day to submit, which keywords result in maximum links and more.
From ReadWriteWeb.com’s Story on this Report and the tools Dan has created using the same data:
The Keyword Tool analyzes a specific word or phrase and returns the average number of links a story mentioning that keyword got in 2007. While the Title Check Tool analyzes an entire title string and shows you which words tend to increase links and which tend to decrease links. These tools can be used by webmasters or social media consultants to help them tweak their copy for optimal social media link attraction, or by other researchers looking to expand on my work.
Overall, I’m really impressed with the report and the tools that have been generated from gathering this data. I can only imagine how time consuming this project was and impressively, it’s available for free. I’m sure this data is invaluable to someone who makes a living off of social media optimization and using Digg.com as a link building tool for clients.
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Shoot Bryan. Looks like you just got dugg bro.
Maybe you’ll go hot! This is some crazy data that Dan Zallera put together. Good find Bryan!
wow “Zallera” thats a new one, i like it! hehe
lol…its pretty close I guess. I have to admit, when I first saw your username “danzarella” I thought it was a play on Godzilla or something.
It certainly helps if you’re a top digger, they seem to pass weak submissions that no other user could get sent to the frontpage.
heh, i’ve always wanted to make a kind of cheese, instead of mozarella, danzarrella.
Great post, Bryan. Like everyone else, I love the graph from Dan as well. Thanks for bringing to my attention.