Do you Digg?

Does anyone have Digg on their blog? Anyone digg you? Is it worth doing? I have so many widgets now, lol!

Christina

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Permalink Reply by meg89 on January 5, 2009 at 7:49pm

I use an "add this" button (google it) because of the clutter of having individual buttons. It lets you add to whatever social network you use. I haven't been digged, but I think I'm going to start digging my own posts (I know it sounds sad) because I get hits when I stumble my posts (I swear I'm not as pathetic as that makes me seem). If the next digger/stumbler likes it, they can do the same and you'll get lots of hits (I wrote a post about GenderAnalyzer for blogs that got a much higher number of hits through stumble than average because other people continued to stumble it) and so you've started the cycle for yourself :)

Permalink Reply by chrisbookarama on January 6, 2009 at 7:26am

Thanks Meg. I've never Stumbled mine own posts (I didn't know you could!).

Christina

Permalink Reply by Trish Collins on January 6, 2009 at 12:20pm

I *thought* it was considered wrong to stumble or digg your own posts. But I'd like to know what other people think about this. I'd certainly be willing to change my opinion. *grin*

Permalink Reply by Amy on January 6, 2009 at 12:36pm

Yeah, I think it's frowned upon to stumble or digg your own posts.

Permalink Reply by Britt C. on January 6, 2009 at 12:43pm

Digg says on the site that you can submit your own stuff.

Permalink Reply by Amy on January 6, 2009 at 12:53pm

Ah, okay then it's only frowned upon in Stumble Upon. ;)

Permalink Reply by Paperback Traveler on January 6, 2009 at 9:12pm

I think it's technically against Stumble Upon's rules to stumble your own posts...although I admit that I do it. Would anyone be interested in forming an informal group where we stumble each other's posts?

Permalink Reply by meg89 on January 8, 2009 at 8:14pm

I didn't know that Stumbleon didn't want you to stumble your own things--I mean honestly what harm can that do--but I say we just try to make a concerted effort to stumble each other's posts when they're good. That's the point of Stumbling anyway, to share good stuff. :)

Permalink Reply by Paperback Traveler on January 8, 2009 at 8:43pm

Meg--I didn't realize it either until the guy who writes an internet marketing blog that I read said that he was banned from Stumble Upon for stumbling his own posts. He argued the same thing that you did--that the whole point of SU is to make interesting content easily discoverable by other people interested in that topic--but I guess the folks at SU think that stumbling your own stuff invites abuse? Who knows...

Permalink Reply by Maw Books on January 6, 2009 at 3:03pm

I just have one button at the bottom of my posts as well. Less clutter.

I've always been under the impression that book bloggers don't digg like other bloggers do but hey, we've started to stumble! So why not digg!

A few articles that I found:
http://divanetworking.blogspot.com/2008/03/digg-why-you-should-digg...
http://dmiessler.com/blog/dear-readers-please-submit-your-own-content

It sounds to me that you need to have a lot of Digg friends and hundreds of diggs for it to catch. I've no idea though. I haven't played around with it yet.

Permalink Reply by Britt C. on January 6, 2009 at 12:18pm

I joined Digg and added my own posts

Maybe we should Digg each others posts?

Permalink Reply by Britt C. on January 6, 2009 at 12:43pm

Meg, I've hit all of yours that I've found.