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Dig Past Digg For Social News Traffic

  • AjaxNinja, Friday, September 14, 2007 12:30 PM
Much has been made recently about Webmasters harnessing the power of social news sites like Digg, StumbleUpon and Reddit to help drive traffic - but the clique-like nature of the "power users" on these networks (especially Digg) and their ability to influence which blogs or sites get front-page prominence has been just as well documented.

Some insiders advise Web pros to actively read, comment on and submit articles to the Digg community -- in the aim of building a reputation as a qualified "Digger" and thus, grabbing more eyeballs -- but this post lists seven reasons why search pros should invest their time trolling (and submitting to) other, niche-specific social news sites instead.

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