How to Write an Article that Will Hit Digg’s Front Page

For most webmasters, it is their hope and dream to hit the front page of Digg. By hitting the front page of Digg, you’ve just sent, if you hit at the middle of the day, anywhere from 1000 to 10,000 (if not more) visitors to your site. Now, chances are, you won’t get a lot of those visitors to stay, but what it does is give your site a tremendous boost of traffic and lead to traffic coming in from other sources. Often times what comes from a front paged story is links to those stories from other sites. So, building traffic also builds links.

So, how do you write an article that will hit the front page? The first thing to keep in mind is that Digg is an elite group of web followers. They like only what they like and if what you have disagrees with what they like, you’re screwed. This meant that, at one time, it was mostly people who loved Apple (hated Windows) and who were hardcore Liberals. If you tried to post a Conservative piece, you might as well just not. However, if you can write your article and gear it, slightly, towards the audience of Digg, it will gain its initial following.

The trick to getting on the front page of Digg is to make the article easy enough to understand that includes some sort of humor. People on Digg like to laugh. If your article is just facts and nothing that makes them either laugh or go, “a-ha,” then your article is not going to get front paged. The Onion constantly has articles going to the front page because they write hilarious articles and when they submit them to dig, their growing following diggs it because they know that the article is going to be funny.

Get a band of about twenty people to digg the story. On Digg, it’s not what you know, but who you know. By getting those initial twenty votes, it makes your story quickly gain some recognition. This recognition, in turn, becomes motivation for other people to start voting for your story. As more people vote, others will come and vote. They may even tell their friends about the story. No one wants to be the first, but everyone will be the second…third…fourth…etc.

Getting to the front page is a great move and if you can succeed in doing it, you should really consider it. The amount of traffic that it will send is amazing and there is a great chance of turning some of that traffic into profit. To do that, though, requires a lot of different techniques.