Digg is a social bookmarking site. It is currently one of the biggest and most popular bookmarking sites around, and can be utilized to generate spikes of untargeted-traffic (which by the way isn't going to do you a whole lot of good), but more importantly, quality one way links.

There are a couple things you should think about before jumping into digg. Realize that this is a social bookmarking site, and people will digg things just because they are 'cool'. If you're selling monetizing with your site, chances are that if you get to the first page on digg and get a traffic spike, the visitors are just going to glance around quickly and then leave. They're there to look, not to convert into customers or click ads. That being said, who doesn't like traffic spikes? I mean hey, they make you feel like you're doing something, right? And of course, getting spread virully through digg may be just the thing you're looking for… publicity.

1. Signing Up

The first step, as with pretty much any social site around, is to set up an account. This is a simple ordeal with digg. Just look at the top lefthand corner of the digg homepage, and you should see a 'Join Digg' button. Click through and fill out the info.

 

2. Digging A Webpage

This is also pretty simple. If you are signed into your account, look at the top of the page, and you'll see a bar with a couple options, the second-to-last being 'Submit New'. Click on this option.

You should now be on a page where you submit the URL of the article or site you want to digg. To make sure I get the correct URL, I usually like to open up the page in a new tab and copy/paste the URL into the box. But it's quite fine if you want to type it out as well.

The rest is pretty simple. If your article or webpage has not already been submitted to digg, it will open up a new page. Here you enter in a Title and Description. You choose a thumbnail icon. You choose the category which your article will be under. And Last, you type in one of those really annoying 'Are you human?' things (one of the ones that's even more annoying because it's not words, and it's case-sensitive). All that is pretty self-explanatory I think. No images needed here.

 

3. Some Thoughts and Notes on Digg

Like I said before, you probably aren't going to get highly targeted traffic if you're page gets a lot of diggs and makes it to the first page. But there are a couple of other really good benefits from digg.

(1) Publicity. Just getting people familiar with you and your site. If you can somehow get people talking about your site, that's good. The more known you are the better. And hey, you might just want readers for your blog. This is a great way to get a whole bunch of people to read a really good blog post you wrote.

(2) Blog traffic and links. A lot of times, people will write blog posts about things that get onto the first page of digg. They might review the site, or just randomly write what comes across their mind, or if the article is interesting enough, they might just want to tell the people who read their blog about it. This works two goods for you. It will give you free one-way links (always good), and it might even get you direct traffic from the blog.

(3) SEO. If you get popular within a major social site like digg, it is a HUGE boost to your search engine rankings. All the internal links and stuff that go on inside of these giant social sites… search engine heaven. This is another great reason to do social sites like digg, because they will greatly increase your authority in the search engines. And everyone knows that good search engine rankings are a one-way ticket to more traffic.

 

I think that about does it for digg… Oh, one last thing.

 

4. Adding a 'Digg This' Button to Your Blog Post or Website

You can add a 'Digg This' button to your site. If a user is signed into digg, and they view your webpage, you can put up a button they can click to digg your article. This will GREATLY increase the number of people who digg your stuff (if any do it in the first place), because who wants to spend a whole minute to go out of their way and digg an article? But if there's a button right at the bottom of the post, then it'll be much easier, and your chances of getting a digg will go up greatly.

To set up the button, go to your profile page and scroll all the way to the bottom. There are little boxes of information here. From left to right, go to the third box entitled 'Digg Tools & API', and click on 'DIGG TOOLS'.

 

You should see a couple of options on the next page. Click the one called 'Integrating Digg in Your Site'.

Once the next page has loaded, you should see a box with some code in it (There will probably be a few, you can read about the more complicated ones if you want, or just take the first one, which is the simplest). Take this code and post it where you want the button. This may be in teh HTML of your blog post, or in the HTML of the template, or even somewhere else. If you want to see what one of the buttons looks like, just look at the bottom of this post, where I put one.

That about wraps it up for digg. Again, if anyone has any questions, feel free to post a comment, and I will see if I'm able to address them.

Squidoo is a small but powerful site that can be used in multiple ways. It allows users to creat mini web portals with text modules, images, RSS feeds, and even affiliate modules with Amazon (Squidoo will pay you a percentage of the comission it recieves from Amazon).

 

(1) First things first. Siging up for Squidoo is as easy as cake. Or pie. Or like… walking a really old faithful dog on a perfectly warm yet cool summer evening… well… you get the idea. Maybe I'm exaggerating, but it is pretty simple. Just look in the top right hand corner of the homepage, and you should see a 'Sign-up' link.

(2) Once you'e signed up, you should make a starter portal. I like to write a short introduction first off. Then I move to a text module. As always, it's best if you have unique content. But if you're lazy, you can do with an article from an article directory. Or you could rewrite an article from an article directory using Google Translator. I would highly recommend writing your own content, especially if you want your lens to rank in the search engines. And believe me, they can rank in the search engines, in quite surprising places too.

If I'm doing a lens for a blog, I'll usually put the RSS feed in the blog as well. It's simple enough; just enter an RSS feed URL into the RSS module, and it's all set. You can write a short description of the blog, or you can leave it blank. I prefer to leave it blank, but I have not tested which one is better, so I couldn't say for sure.

You can see an example lens I did for this article here (it's also the graphic below).

 

(3) And finally, some quick notes.

    -Make sure you link back to your main page in the text module. This will give you a one-way link at the least, and if the lens gets any traffic, it can also generate some direct traffic.

    -Make a second link back to an article on your blog. This isn't necessary, but I usually grab any extra links I can get.

    -For most it might be easy, but I'll tell you, it must have taken me ten minutes to figure out how to move the modules around when I was editing my first Squidoo lens. To save you some pain, sweat, and frustration (or maybe not), there are two arrows, one pointing up, and one down, at the top of each module in a little orange bar. Click the arrows to move the modules up and down (the page will refresh before the module moves).

I think that about does it for squidoo. Feel free to comment if you have any questions, and I'll see if I can answer them.

 

I have found this site called easy hits 4 u. That gives free 1:1 ratio in giving you traffic. All you have to do is register on the site, and you can just leave it up in the background, every 30 seconds you will click next and then you will get a credit. You can then upload your ad and have the credits transferred to credits for you. I don't even actually look at the page, just put it in the background while you work on something else and then click it every now and then. It's a great free way to earn traffic. Here's the link to the site.

We pay you CASH for surfing (1:1 ratio) and for referring new members

One of the best ways to earn credits without even looking at the sites is through referrals. If I were you, I'd just register on the site, then copy the link which you can find on there so that you get the referrals credited to you here's the link for that. Then copy this short article or write one of your own leave the flashing banner to gain you traffic. If people make an account from your site then you get credits every time they load a page, and you get paid for up to five generations of referrals. It's free, easy and gains traffic, give it a shot.

 

 

Today I would like to talk about free link giving. Now everybody loves free links. If you are a new or old blogger this will be profitable for you. All you have to do is write a post saying, i'm offering free links to whoever subscribes to my RSS feed and leaves  a comment with their url. It's as simple as that. And I promise you, that one sentance article will be the most popular article on your site. I did one a couple days ago and it has generated 53 comments. My site isn't even that popular yet, but everyone jumps at free links.

My advice to you is to create thisi post. The comments will come flying in, then just post that person's url in that post. It's easy, and you get lost of RSS subscribers. And people really like you for it. And most of them keep coming back. I'm going to list two other wise people's links who have done this, so that you can get a free link from them as well as mine.

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and then here's mine if you haven't left your url yet.

 

So after doing entrecard for two more weeks, I’ve realized the 8 steps to becoming an Entrecard powerhouse.

1.

Advertise on as many of the cheap sites as you can. Forget the advertising on the huge sites, until you have lots of credits. The key to gaining traffic from it, is by having a large cost to advertise on your site. And the way you do that is advertising on lots of sites. So check the "most recent" tab as many times a day as you can. And every time there's a new site that just joined. Advertise on it, this will help the cost of your site grow dramatically. And keep this up.

2.

Most bloggers have several sites. Put entrecard on all these different sites using different email addresses. Then if you have three blogs, then you'll have three sites generating credits, then you can just send them all to the site that you want to profit the most, or split them up how you choose.

3.

If you don't fit in the above category with having several sites. Go to blogspot and sign in with your google account (if you going to succeed as a blogger you need one btw) and create another blog. They only take a minute. Then copy an article from ezinearticle, or goarticles. And post them on the site. It's not illegal as long as you give the person credit, just leave a link to the writer's site. And then post up the entrecard widget and you can generate more credits that way.

4.

Every day or couple days go to the top five sites in your respective category on entrecard, and drop your card on their blog. And go in a new window to the site that is advertising on that site. Keep going till you end up on a site you've already been on. Usually it only takes about 20-30 sites before you end up having done a circle. And that's enough to keep the cost of your site from dropping, and as long as you keep advertising on the most recent sites then enough to keep it moving up.

5.

Don't stop! You have to keep doing this for up to two weeks. If you stop for even a day you will see your site suffer. It doesn't take very long, but you need to spend the five minutes every day otherwise your site will drop very quickly. After those couple weeks it should be powerful enough to stay afloat by itself.

6.

When you create an account don't accept all the blogs right away. Accept a few then wait for the cost of your site to move up, then accept them. That way it'll earn you more credits.

7.

Don't hide your entrecard ad way at the bottom of your website. People will go to your site to drop the card on your widget, and nothing is more annoying then having to search through a ton of clustered ads to find the entrecard one. Make sure that people can find it.

8.

When you have extra credits after advertising on the most recent sites, advertise the rest on the most recommend or lowest wait. Personally I do lowest wait, because that way my ad will be up on their site sooner and they usually cost less. But it won't generate as much traffic.

So there it is, follow these 8 steps and you'll be on your way to becoming an entrecard powerhouse.