I realize this is fairly black hat, but I'm wondering why no one has done this yet.... Given the benefits of being on the front page of digg, is there any market for a paid service wherein a bunch of users will digg your article? How much would something like that be worth, say for 500 unique diggs? Alternatively, how much would users want for a digg? i.e. charge $500 for 500 diggs, pay each person who did a digg 50 cents. (I don't want to get flamed , I'm basically white hat. I'm just curious about this as a model and haven't seen anything like this yet.)
Not a new idea. Think you missed the posting where a whole lot of DigitalPoint Digg users were doing that (for free btw) and had their accounts banned - http://forums.digitalpoint.com/showthread.php?t=105564
The fact that you have even mentioned it here means that digg is already hovering its eager thumb over the ban ip button.
It's not legit (at least not by me anyway). Just curious about the concept more than anything. Doesn't seem to hard to set up. I bet one could get a few hundred willing participants even here. Get them going, pay a bit, send paypal money after they do 10 diggs. And yes, I missed that thread about recip diggs . I don't follow this hardcore stuff much.
Its stupid this type of topic and all Digg ones. DIGG should be used for good topics not spam. Pay for proper advertising for chist sake.
Your definition of 'proper advertising' thankfully isn't enforced on everyone. There's people out there who say the same thing about any type of SEO including link development. It 'pollutes' the purity of the serps apparently.
I agree that Digg gets a lot of traffic to your site, but they hardly click any ads or even some of them do, its just one time. If your topic/site is very interesting, you will get dugg, delicioused..etc and will keep getting traffic over several weeks as compared to just a day. My $0.02
Who cares if they click on your ads or not? Digg is about natural links pure and simple. The value is anything from $1000 upwards.
Just head on over to PayPerPost.com and join that. You'll get paid to blog so kinda the same thing. I'm into my second month so I'm still seeing how reliable they are going to be but I have $15 in my PayPal account from my first "testing the water" posts, and $175 coming in over the next 28 days. Nothing to lose at this point...