How do you rate sites such as Digg?

[MrMonkey]

Hi all I was just wondering today how the SEO'ers get on with digg.com from a seo / sem point of view?
Have you any of you had great experiences incorporating these mediums into a website marketing plan?

Cheers all

MrMonkey

[david64]

To get any traffic from Digg you generally need some really good content and a truck load of people you can ask/pay to Digg your content to get the ball rolling.

If you don't have a load of groupies swanning around your site, try StumbleUpon. It's not so difficult to get traffic from that, but doesn't provide so much traffic.

As for SEO. If you have good content, these types of sites are great to tell lots of people about your content and they may in turn link to you. anything that gets to page one of Digg can be sure to build some good links.

However, if you have a purely commercial site with nothing of interest to anyone other than people who want to buy from you theses sites will not be of any use to you. No one cares about purely commercial websites.

[jBullet]

Yeah, I also use StumbleUpon and have built up a large list of people I know on there and we stumble each other's web content (if it's of a high enough standard). StumbleUpon is generally regarded as the best of the social media/bookmarking type sites such as Digg for getting traffic to a site.

[david64]

There is a program called AutoStumble which will get you free stumbles without having to do anything.

It's broken at the moment though. This a fix is in the pipes.

[MrMonkey]

thanks guys, i will give stumbleupon a go as well and have a play on there.

[PrettyPaws]

Digg is very good for getting a new site spidered quickly, often within 24 hours.

[david64]

PrettyPaws is right with that. Digg gets things indexed quick. I've never used it to get a new site indexed, but I've seen things indexed withing minutes of being submitted to Digg.