OK.. so here is my latest chip-in to the DP forum ... Gawd knows i've taken away enough! OK.. so what I do to raise my digg.com link power is add tons of friends. BUT if you add tooooo many friends, you trip a SPAMMER alarm at digg HQ. So... How I add friends without adding ANY friends is by waiting for the NEXT NEW promoted topic. Rapidly think of something funny to comment. THEN wait for my thumbs ups to reach hundreds. Of these... dozens will add me as a friend. COOL PART IS... only the heavy hitters will add me as a friend... the newbies who don't know how digg relates to google and traffic dont bother with the friends thing. I have an example of just this technique in my blog.
How is this relevant to building google rank??? Not to mention there is no spammer alarm for adding too many friends.
I'm referring specifically to the paragraph the OP wrote on how to add friends on digg, which I believe is irrelevant to builiding serps/pr.
It could be that he's looking for an easy way for people to "Digg" his articles to increase thier ranks... But that's just a guess.
ok.. nice trick for adding friends. But, where does the SERP results come in? Is it from when you submit a story of your own later and you get all of your new friends to comment on it and Digg it? If so, then it makes sense that if you have enough Digg power you could get on the first page of Digg and get some great link juice. Otherwise, I don't understand the SERP trick that adding friends has to do with this. Please elaborate. Regardless this is a good idea for adding friends at Digg.