How do you get on Digg's front page?

[nicuz]

I have submitted 2 of my news to digg.com but I got no digs. Same news but on a different website were submitted a couple of hours later and they hit digg's front page. Rumors say that not only you need an interesting article, but you also need to have a lot of friends that will dig your story. Is this true?

If not, I can think of 2 mistakes I've made:
1. maybe the titles of my news and the short paragraph that appear on digg weren't appealing enough to encourage the visitors to read the entire article
2. I haven't put that "digg it" icon on my website because I was assuming users were digging my story from digg's main website.

Those of you who hit digg's front page, can you confirm any of the above?

Thanks

[Lordy]

Of course you need tons of diggs, that's about it I guess.

[ichigo]

easy if you get lots of friends that are members of digg ;)
also you have to make catchy titles. words like awesome. wicked. cool. or make a list top ten blah blah etc.

[drig]

Your content must be well written and on a respectable site (usually, unless is unique) and the stories that hit the front page most often are the top "diggers". Be active in the community submitting a variety of stories (not just your own), commenting / digging others, and being intertwined in the community. And yes, friends help.

[dannbkk]

Lets say you are on the frontpage of digg, you wont be there for long, until someone elses digg that is better is replaced with yours.

[protocol96]

http://forums.digitalpoint.com/showthread.php?t=246678&highlight=digg+racket

i am not saying all the stories hittin front page are thru networks, but there are some.

Welcome to the club buddy

[charlesgan]

take ur time... build a good site, sure will get more visitors.

agree that network is very important here.

[SeLFiE]

if im not mistaken when you submit your article on dig it'll be on the front page but when other people also submit there article yours will go down until no one sees it except there are others who will frequently digg it and that it would be on the front page....yeah i agree with charlesgan network is very importrant...

[zooped]

Digg use to list their top diggers, I would guess having them as your digg friends and them digging your article would be the best way to get on the front page.

Now your best bet is just adding the submitters of the home page I would think.

[Tyler Banfield]

Write articles that appeal to 13 year old tech fanboys

[seo_expert]

Submit articles/posts which will appeal and interesting to diggers and surely you will see on the home page.

Give something worth digging and rest will be done by the "architecture of participation" of DIGG. :D

[Janna122003]

I also submit on digg but I don't get traffic on that.

[Hot-screensaver]

I submitted a few diggs but so far have no success! So, I guess I will try what the others have suggested above. The most important thing is write a good article but unfortunately this is the hardest part. :)

[zeroaccess]

to get on diggs front page ur news must get atleast 50diggs within the first day then only u'll be able to get onto the first page

[maldives]

It is friendly networks that can bring you to the front. :D

[dan78]

My biggest tip would be to not submit your own content. Let your readers do that. And make sure you have a digg this badge on your site.

[maldives]

My biggest tip would be to not submit your own content. Let your readers do that. And make sure you have a digg this badge on your site.

Why not? Several members have successfully done for their own sites. Ask Ninno about it.

[Connections]

Some digg tips from someone who hits the front page regularly:


- Don't submit every article you write to digg - you'll get banned, or the digg

they dont ban your account for this, all they do is ban the URL your stories are comming from.



to get a digg hompage you need a site with no ads basically, you need a exclusive story, you need something that techy, if you have a bunch of ads people call your site ad spam ect ect...

people on digg are very annoying know it alls at times, I hate some of the comments you get from people lol..

ive only ever got 2 homepaged stories out of 300 or so submissions lol.

[TorchedSEO]

The best way to get to the front page is to mention anything having to do with apple

[Jasonb]

i know some one from namepros, who payed pretty much every one on there IM list $1 to digg there site, ended up on the front page and it cost him about $1,200 and in a period of 3 days his adsence clicks had gone up about 70% allthough he didnt make evan $600 back never mind the full ammount, allthough i think he is now PR6 or something so... I suppose it was worth it, but then again he was a crazy fool in a way. So... Maybe if you really need to be on the front page of Digg then just pay peaple to digg you, after a while youll proberly notice as your article gets quite popular other random peaple start digging it. Also maybe try Delicious too :D