If you’re not into the social bookmarking scene, then Digg can help you with more than just SEO. Social bookmark sites like digg.com allow you to submit links to webpages (stories) and images to save them as online favorites. I like this because I can access my favorite pages or links to images from any computer and any browser – therefore my bookmarks follow me. AND as an added bonus my links are searchable by others, I can look at what other people saved, and can make my own comments about my links to help me remember them later. As you can imagine, this adds a whole new dimension to search, because I can search what other users have saved (including how many people have saved it and they keywords they used to save it) instead of searching through an engine like Google.
I Digg Because I get Traffic from Digg.com
So I got into a habit of doing to digg.com and saving all of my blog posts there because my clients (photographers) might be searching for stuff on Digg instead of Google and I want my website to appear where they are searching! I know this is working because my Google Analytics web stats shows that 14 people visited my website last month directly from digg.com:
Trafffic to my website from Digg.com
Not bad, that is about 160 new people to my site each year, just by taking a few minutes to add my posts to Digg. But it gets better… WAY better. After all, this is an SEO blog and not a social media commercial.
People Tweet My Diggs
After I dugg my latest post ClikPic SEO Overview & Photography Website Search Engine Review, I got an almost immediate hit in Twitter for someone linking to my post. But the interesting thing was that they didnt link to my site, they linked to my post on the Digg website.
Somebody tweeted my Digg post
I was about to thank this person for showcasing my site, when I realized that all of their tweets linked to Digg and all of them used the same feed format. Turns out they have an automated service that automatically tweets anything that was dugg with the terms photographer or photography. That is great for me, now I have at least one person tweeting my posts anytime I digg them with the right keywords. But again – how does this relate to SEO for a photography blog? Here is the payoff…
Digg Pages Can Rank in Search
I went out to Google to see how all of this affected my search results. The original intent of my post was to rank for “ClickPic SEO” which is a rather niche term that there are not too many competing websites for. Low and behold, I had multiple listings on the first page of Google results:
- My blog category page
- My blog homepage
- My post on Tweetmeme
- My tweetmeme page
- My post on Digg
- My Twitter page
- My post on someone else’s Twitter page
Top Google Ranks Show Blog, Digg and Twitter
Summary: Benefits of Digging Your Photography Blog Posts
Digging your posts will not always get you top ranks or multiple ranks, and a lot of these will drop off over time (especially the Twitter ones are short lived), but the morale of the story is this:
- When you digg a post, that digg page can rank in search
- You can get traffic from digg.com, just like you can from Google
- Users may promote your Diggs via Twitter or other channels
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Fantastic, I didn’t know about that up to now. Thanx.