It’s amazing to me that many people still believe that this can work on Digg:

  • Setup a bunch of accounts (either on the same day or within a few days of eachother)
  • Have your friends or employees do the same
  • Go digg a few stories to make it look like you are real users
  • Submit your story to Digg a day later
  • Have all of said friends digg your story
  • Sit back and wait to hit the homepage

I hate to break it to you but this does not work and its just so obvious to Digg admins (and even vigilant users). Here’s what a naturally dugg story will typically look like (click image for larger version):

Natural Digg story

Hypothetically, here’s what the scenario I detailed at the start will usually look like (again click for larger image):

Digg Unnatural Story

As you can see, most of the people that have dugg this story:

When someone (Digg admin for example) see this in the Upcoming section – it can make them suspicious and most likely lead to a bury (yes – they do manual buries). Because if someone was to look closer they would also see that many of these accounts were created within a few days of each other (another bad sign).

This is not a steadfast rule because many times it does not hold true for stories from popular blogs (where users hit the Digg This button). But if someone is trying to get a questionable blog/website popular – this is not the way to go.


Posted by Chris Winfield at 10:20 am
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