@Julia_wild 128350 wrote:
Thanks guys, I have been a little unclear on this Digg thing too.
How long has Digg been going?
Has it only recently grown in popularity or am I just slow to pick up on it?
Digg.com was started in November 2004 by Kevin Rose, Owen Byrne and Ron Gorodetzky. Digg has been very popular for over a year now. It is a community of people that user submit cool or interesting stories and then vote or “digg” them up or down.
If a story gets enough diggs, it can make the homepage which has it’s own benefits. With a top 100 alexa ranking the potential for exposure is very large.
I can tell you from my experience the type of crowd you will see is a very tech oriented audience, and sites like engadget.com and mashable.com are frequently “dugg” to the number one position.
I recently started my own blog and just wrote an article about Digg as well coincidentally, outlining one of the common misconceptions of the site :
http://www.kylehealey.com/why-people-need-to-stop-complaining-about-digg-traffic-not-converting/