SEO Bloggers please stop submitting your blog to Digg

by Patrick Altoft on October 10, 2007

I don’t care if your article is the best thing since Larry wrote about a system of ranking pages based on links, please don’t waste your time submitting it to Digg.

The only thing Digg users hate more than SEO is people who blog about SEO. No matter how great your article is you simply won’t get your SEO blog to the front page of Digg with an article about internet marketing.

Sure, SEOmoz has hit the Digg front page lots of times but most of the content wasn’t about SEO.

Look at the last 10 articles about SEO that hit the Digg homepage, can you see any positive ones in the last 3 months?

In the past 6 months the Digg community has continually buried SEO related content so why do hundreds of SEO bloggers keep submitting content every day? Do they really not notice that their stories never hit the homepage?

Is it so unreasonable for people to spend a couple of days looking at the popular stories to figure out what the community actually enjoys?

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1 Quinton Figueroa 11/10/2007 at 12:59 am: I really don’t think most people, or Internet Marketers for that matter, understand fully how Digg works and as a result think that submitting their own articles over and over again is beneficial.

They also don’t realize that just because you hit the front page doesn’t mean you won’t get buried within 5 minutes.

I agree, it just looks so retarded seeing all those posts by SEOs with high hopes of hitting it big with Digg. You have to understand what the people of Digg like and simply provide it for them .
2 Tamar Weinberg 11/10/2007 at 6:15 am: Where’s the damn thumbs up button where I can vote up your post?!
3 Tom 11/10/2007 at 10:31 am: Right - I’m off to write a post about how to do SEO on your iphone just to prove you wrong

Good point about determining the current trends though - it’s really not that hard!
4 George Manlangit 11/10/2007 at 12:32 pm: I never really noticed it until you mentioned it. I’ve never really Digg anything about web marketing stuff so I have not really paid attention. Hey, thanks for this post.
5 Maria 11/10/2007 at 6:51 pm: you think it’s hard to get an SEO article on the frontpage of Digg?
guess how hard it is to get an article on any social bookmarking page if your are blogging in german about online poker.
nevertheless, once I managed to achieve it for a few hours.
6 Scott 11/10/2007 at 11:29 pm: How about blogging about blogging, does that count too? I think you can add more than just seo’s blogging about seo
7 Internet Marketing 14/10/2007 at 4:37 am: My site got banned from Digg for getting burried. I submitted SEO Case Study. The article got a great response from the web dev cummonity but terrible from Digg.

Damn.