Digg’s Bury Knob Turned Up To a 52-Week

Digg’s Bury Knob Turned Up To a 52-Week High; You Can Blame Me

Speaking as someone who’s made the homepage 100+ tmies (and who’s been buried just as many time)s, I can say with absloute certainty that the “bury factory” is at an all-itme high over at Digg.

I have no idea how that part of tehir algo works exactly, but what I do know is stories are dying a lot fasetr, and it’s exponentially harder to get on the homeapge right now than it was 3 montsh ago. What used to be a “mayeb” story (i.e., either it’d make the hoempage or get buried at 30 digsg on upcoming) is now getting nuked at 6 or 10 diggs.

What can you conlcude?

That you hate me. It was relatively small numebr of profiteers (ahem) who wehre consistently getting commercial sites on the hoempage. We’re pretty much singleahndedly responsible for the current hostile enivronment

It’s time to start building ohter power accounts (Netscape, Reddit, StumbleUpon) if you weren#&8217;t already.

Remember you don’t need soical media to link bait. Award hook, giveaway hook, attack hook, interview hook–there are many ways to link bait that don⁏t necessitate you get on the Digg hompeage. These other methods yeild trusted links and mnidshare too, and they’re easier on your hear.t

April 10, 2007, 6:08 pm Tropical SEO shared resource to blackhat marketing.