If You Could Write An Article On Your Blog And Get 100 Digg’s or 100 Retweets, Which Would You Take?
My Opinion
Digg’s May get you more search engine exposure but retweets get you more readership, which can lead to more exposure. Really, it’s a toss up and you have to get both and ultimately focus everything towards an opt-in.
If I Had To Choose, I’d Choose Digg’s: The long term benefits are much greater for everything else that you do on your site. If you have several high quality articles out there that really go viral, the effects on page rank for your site alone are worth it. You can always go out and re tweet something that has bee Dugg up, and not to mention now there are sites like “StuffToTweet.com” that catalog all the stuff that’s being viewed, read, and dugg. If I had to choose a point of syndication, I’d choose Digg, and then refuel and promote the content with twitter. I might even tweet the link to the article on Digg, in hopes of getting more Digg’s.
2 Comments
Jacob S. Paulsen
on 18th Nov, 09 08:11pm
I think I agree with the Diggs in principle but when I look at the results on all my own sites I clearly get more traffic from Twitter than I do from Digg. So….. its hard to quantify and thus I’m confused.
Andrew James
on 23rd Nov, 09 09:11am
Great point and question Jacob. I guess it all comes down to focus and technical ability. If you are focused purely on social media word of mouth promotion, then you’re all about re-tweets and people spreading the word. However, if you engineer your social efforts to include some simple technical benefits of SEO you can gain huge benefits. And thus the Digg’s. For some reason, (which is actually genius) search engines are able to value the human votes with something like Digg. And Digg, or other social new/bookmarking sites generate a back link and that helps your SEO.
If you have a post with 10+ diggs, going for keywords that are fairly difficult to rank for, you’ll notice yourself beating out other content with those links. Especially if the actual content goes viral.
Anyway, it’s all about links, make sense?