DIGG: A Quickie Way To Get A PR 4 to 6

DIGG sure is a quick way to get from zero to something on Google, at least pagerank-wise. And no, you don’t have to get frontpaged all the time (which is no easy feat). Tech Soapbox posts about an experiment with DIGG and blogging.

Not going to make any friends this way. But we tried this out, it was fun:

1. Find Digg frontpage stories
2. ‘Blog it’
3. Repeat for every frontpage story [for at least 100 stories]
4. Wait 6 months, voila - PR4-6

Mind you this was an experiment, and we already shut it down. But something to note.

I’ve always had an inkling that this was good for SEO. But it’s true that this won’t make you any friends! It’s like you’re blogging but you’re just scraping content off DIGG.

And the reason behind this: Frontpaged DIGG stories often get good Google juice. For one, they get linked to a lot. And then the story pages also get high pageranks of their own. And add to that some relevant keywords stuffed inside the comment threads. You’ve got yourself good candidates for high-ranking results in Google SERPs.

Now when you hit the “blog it” button and actually let DIGG publish a copy of the headline and summary on your blog, DIGG will automatically add a link to your site under the “who blogged this” section of that page. Voila! Instant linkback to your site, from none less than DIGG itself. Do this a hundred times over, and it might appear to Google that DIGG is linking to your site from a lot of pages.

Now the 6 million dollar question is: what the heck would you do with all those blogged stories? You’ll have to keep the content because DIGG links to the static pages and not just your blog domain. Take them down and pretty soon Google will learn the DIGG pages are pointing to dead links, and you might end up in a worse position than you started.