Most users even if they are on digg will tweet their new posts and use a regular URL shortener. As a result their followers who click the link will be redirected to the page and if they like what they see, I mean really like, then they may consider submitting the page to digg. Smart users will make this process easier for the reader by adding a digg this badge at the bottom of the post. But there’s a better way.
The Digg Bar
If you’ve used digg you will be familiar …

A lot of people are asking the question how to get more traffic to your blog. And a lot of people are giving the same answers, “build up all traffic streams” “target keywords” “comment on blogs” etc. This works well for the established blogger but it’s a long and painful road for the new guy. Good thing the game is changing. There are now easier ways to compete with the big players.
The Shortcut
Normally traffic is built up by compounding returns. Each traffic source adds on the previous. Once you target enough keywords …

So a few weeks ago I wrote a few posts on Social Bookmarking 101 – Where To Start and Getting Popular on Social Bookmarking Sites 101. You may be interested in checking them out because it works. Last week I had a post go to the front page of Digg by following those tips. I didn’t use any pre-existing lists I just started from scratch so you can do it too.
Here are 5 points you may want to know before doing it yourself:
Hosting
The post was only on the front page for less …

There are so many channels to market your blog these days. Initially if you weren’t successful on the search engines you weren’t successful at all. Now you can get thousands of visitors from social networking sites and have a hugely successful site, while getting relatively few visitors from google. Needless to say the more you target the better. Here is an overview of the ways to target each one and a few ideas how to combine all three.

Why Post Time Is Important
A lot of your regular readers will subscribe to your site and get a notice when you publish a new post. So what is the best time to interrupt them with that message. If I get an email while I am busy and it isn’t urgent it can just be totally ignored! For this reason I prefer to publish my posts early in the morning so my readers will see it when they check their emails in the morning. Also Timing makes a difference on whether …