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What is Digg.com?
Digg.com is a social media website that lists and organizes hyperlinks based on users’ votes. There are no editors. Links are submitted by the Digg community, with users encouraged to view the content and vote on it. The more “diggs” a link gets, the more prominent its placement.

A website that gets enough votes can ascend to the Digg homepage, where a huge influx of Web traffic can flow to it. More than 17.6 million people visited Digg.com in November, according to Compete. Sites with links on Digg’s homepage can get traffic spikes that reach into the tens of thousands.

For a marketer, Digg.com can serve as a viral platform for content. Links on the Digg.com homepage can spread around the Web, generating hundreds, sometimes thousands, of inbound links.
Content is organized first by these platforms and then by topic. Topics for news, video and images are:
Technology
World & Business
Science
Gaming
Lifestyle
Entertainment
Sports
Offbeat

How content gets ranked on Digg
-Users submit links
-Community votes
Number of “diggs”
Number of “buries” or negative votes
Time a link is on Digg
Diversity of the members who “digg” the article

How to get your content featured
Study content
-Go to Digg’s search page
-Select to search only “front page stories” from the drop-down menu
-Type in keywords for your industry
-See what type of content could work for you
Appeal to the masses
Find new angles
Keep it simple

How to submit your content
-Remove ads
-Add social buttons
-Add links to sign-up forms
-Wait a week

Thanks to MarketingSherpa for sharing their tips.