Comments on: Digg's vs Retweets: Which Would You Prefer? http://www.andrewjamesinc.com/social-media/diggs-vs-retweets-which-would-you-prefer Andrew James :: Advertising Technology Strategist & Adventure Entrepteneur Sun, 04 Sep 2011 22:30:49 +0000 hourly 1 By: Andrew James http://www.andrewjamesinc.com/social-media/diggs-vs-retweets-which-would-you-prefer/comment-page-1#comment-175 Andrew James Mon, 23 Nov 2009 16:50:48 +0000 http://www.andrewjamesinc.com/?p=1112#comment-175 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? 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?

]]> By: Jacob S. Paulsen http://www.andrewjamesinc.com/social-media/diggs-vs-retweets-which-would-you-prefer/comment-page-1#comment-174 Jacob S. Paulsen Thu, 19 Nov 2009 03:04:56 +0000 http://www.andrewjamesinc.com/?p=1112#comment-174 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. 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.

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