Comments on: Natural vs. Unnatural Patterns on Digg

By: Jake Matthews

Jake Matthews — Thu, 10 May 2007 16:06:38 +0000

too many puppets in the theater.

By: David Leonhardt

David Leonhardt — Wed, 09 May 2007 14:05:36 +0000

This is looking a lot like the what-not-to-do list for SEO. But the corollery is also that there are ways to use company employees to get high Digg rankings by signing up over time, by encouraging employees to participate, occasional reminders to different employees at different times, by specifying home email addresses rather than company email addresses, by reminding them to upload an avatar of any kind, by asking them to add friends who seem to interest them (nudge them, but make it natural-looking by being natural). If the company has more than one office or is a virtual company or has a number of appropriate suppliers, the IP address issue becomes irrelevent.

By: kelvin newman

kelvin newman — Wed, 09 May 2007 08:55:03 +0000

Would be an interesting experiment to try

a story gets fifty diggs from same ip

story gets fifty diggs from friends different ip

story gets fifty diggs from different ips all first time digg users.

i’d do if I were a bit less busy

By: Chris Winfield

Chris Winfield — Wed, 09 May 2007 02:37:09 +0000

Kelvin –

I am almost positive that plays a big role – very good point to raise…

By: kelvin newman

kelvin newman — Tue, 08 May 2007 11:33:08 +0000

I wouldn’t be surpised if IP address had something to do with their algo too. Say a story has more than 25% of it’s diggs from the same ip address it would get one automatic bury or something similar.

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