Using Digg to Gain Backlinks to Your Website

p>Social websites such as Digg can be a greatand generally get involved in the site's community to
resource for gaining backlinks and exposure for yourlessen any virtual footprint.
blog or website. Links on Digg are tagged with theAs I mentioned previously, the links on Digg carry the
"nofollow" attribute. However, using Digg to promotenofollow attribute. However, I have had great
your site can be to your advantage as I'll explainsuccess getting backlinks via Digg that produce direct
below.traffic as well as links that are counted by Google. A
Digg is a social network website base on the premisegood way to check your number of incoming links is
of a voting process where users can submit articlesto visit and type in domain using the following
or stories and also vote on or "Digg" those articles.structure: site: This will return a listing of all the links in
Digg is quite popular and receives an enormousthe Google index that point to your site.
amount of traffic each day which can be used toAlthough Digg links are thought to be useless in
your advantage.Google, I have found that several of them show up
The first step to take at a website like Digg is toin the count within Google. So, Google seems to feel
create a profile page. Within this page you will be ablethey are valuable links. It is likely, though, that Digg
to add your website with a link back. You should alsoand other nofollow links do not carry as much weight
add links to your other social network sites such asas a good text based anchor link.
Twitter and Facebook.I have also had traffic to my stories on Digg through
Once you are set up on Digg you can beginsearches performed by others on Google. Being very
submitting stories, pages, blog posts, and videos topopular, Digg's content is typically quickly indexed by
the site. I recommend submitting your own blogGoogle thus bringing your content to the forefront of
posts or pages that you have written. TheseGoogle search results. Keep in mind, this traffic will
submitted stories will receive views and will possiblyfirst go directly to Digg. But, because your story at
bring traffic to your site as they emerge in the upDigg only contains a teaser snippet, visitors are often
and coming voting stream.inclined to click through to your site to read more.
A word of caution is in order when using Digg: DODigg is a great social website with hundreds of
NOT SPAM. You can get your account banned if youthousands of users. Using Digg to create backlinks
are simply submitting countless posts and contentand drive direct traffic to your site is a tool you
from your own website. A good practice is to "Digg"should consider for your website.
other submissions, submit items not from your site,