Tips and tricks to optimize Digg

Submitting your webpage, blog post or article to Digg is an excellent method to gain additional exposure. Once you submitted your story, other users can vote for it. Content with more votes votes will rank higher and benefit from massive exposure. Story with the highest votes will also be featured on Digg’s frontpage in addition to ranking higher on searches. Everyday, lots of internet marketers, webmasters and bloggers struggle and use many kind of tricks, in attempts to get their contents or articles featured on Digg’s front page.

• Set up a good interesting profile and create for yourself an eye catching avatar (avatar= logo or personal image) to attract attention to your posts. With 15 submissions per page and hundreds of submissions per hour, you need to have something that make your posts stand out from the other.

• Take your time coming up with good title and description, put in your keywords to optimize SEO. Your title and description will be displayed to visitors and that is what you are using to convince readers to click on your link. When it comes to the description, do not reveal anything, make the visitors curious about what is written in your posts. Make it unique rather than just copy and paste the first sentence or paragraph of your post into the field.

• Submit a good quality content and made from your original content, not copy-pasted from other article.
• Don't always Digg your own posts, Digg does not like their users who submit their own page too frequently.

• Try to accumulate as many friends as you can (this is said to be the most important part), select those who are active and will digg your stories when you ask them to. You can anytime replace the active friends with idle ones. There is a button for you to check the ones who dugg your stories.

• Do leave comments and respond if other user leaves a comment on your story, you can as well digg their story too. Do not spam, or you might get yourself banned and your access terminated.

How to submit articles to Digg

One of the most favorite method for people to promote their articles is through the website called Digg. This steps will show you how to submit an article on Digg and share it with the world.
First, of course you need to register and have Digg account for your own. You can read my previous article on how to create a Digg account.

• After your account has been verified, login to Digg and on the main page click on “Submit New” (the third tab on top of the page). Click that link and it will take you to the submission page.

• Find an article, blog post or image which you would like to submit (you also can submit yours). Copy and paste the website URL address into the submission form. Specify whether the submission is a video, image or news article and then press Continue (it will take a few moments for your submission to be processed).
• Next will be the page saying it is checking for duplicates to ensure someone else has not already submitted the page to Digg.

• After that you will reach to a page where you are asked to add a title and description (write a short interesting blurb about the article before submitting it). The title and description will be seen by visitors when they are making the decision on wether to click on your link or not. After that pick an appropriate topic category which your article belongs to (make sure is accurate, otherwise you may get many negative feedbacks and comments on your posts). Fill out the form and submit your article by clicking “Submit Story”.

• Your article will then automatically appear in the Upcoming section of its category and is officially a part of the Digg.com community and other Digg users can now read it and vote on it. If different people submit the same page, it gets votes and pushed to the first page.

What is Digg and how to join

Digg is a social news site for people to discover and share content anywhere on the internet. If you find a page which you want to share, you can “digg” it byy submitting the URL and a brief descripption of the page through the Digg website. There is no editors at Digg. Digg users will see your submission and they have options to “digg” it (help promote) or “bury” it (help remove spam). They even can Digg and bury comments they like or dislike. Digg surfaces the best content as voted on by the users, and if your content appear on the Digg’s home page, it will be seen to millions of visitors and therefore, you can expect a huge bump in traffic and receive lots of backlinks (which is good for your SEO). However, it is difficult and only a small number of posts will ever make the Digg front page.

All of the Digg’s website content (from news to videos to images) comes from the site’s visitors (that would be you and other Digg account holders) and it is submitted on a voluntary basis. Among all of the social bookmarking websites, Digg is one of the most popular one, and according to Alexa.com Digg is in the top 250 most visited websites on the entire web. It is reported that Digg has approximately 33 million visitors each month and has 24 million account holders and 5 million of them are active on the site everyday.

Everytime you submit an article, video or image, it will automatically appear in “Upcoming Stories” and it will be seen by other members, if they like it, they ‘digg it’. If your submission does not receive enough Diggs within a certain time period, it will eventually falls out of the “Upcoming” section.

• Before you begin you need to register first with Digg, enter your info or data needed, after that you will receive an email after you complete the registration process. Click the link given in the email to be a new Digg Registered User.

• After your account is verified, you can add optional information to your profile (you can always change your profile data in Profile tab) or skip the step and start Digging.

You now can simply select and take one Digg button and put it on your site. The first thing you should do after posting is to click on your own Digg button and let visitors have their opportunity to click the button to vote on it.

Optimizing Youtube videos online

Many people doesn’t aware that Youtube is the second largest search engine and the 3th top site on the web. Therefore those of you who do business online should consider taking advantage of this huge opportunities which can be a great marketing tool for starting your own business. The website is completely free and you can upload as many videos as you like. Some simple things that can improve your Youtube rankings include:

Youtube Sharing Tips and Tricks

YouTube is one of the hottest sites on the Web. It lets users to upload and view all sorts of video clips online. Here is little tricks and tips to help you better view and share Youtube videos.

• To share Youtube video to your friends via email, you can click the “Share” link underneath the video player on that video’s page. The Share menu will appear, click “Email this video” and fill in the email addresses that you want to send in the “To” box, separating multiple addresses with commas. You can add some message too if you like (optional). You also can share your Youtube Favorites list, just press the Share button and then proceed the steps as usual.

• If you want to share a Youtube video to a friend, sometimes you want the video to jump to where the most important part and start from there without having to watch the unnecessary part from the beginning. All you have to do is adding this below code to the end of the URL.
  
  #t=04m72s
  
  m stands for minute and s stands for second.

• Or if it is an embed code, put &start=80 to the end of the embed url. The value number of the code represent seconds. So if &start=80 means it will skip the first 80 seconds of the video.

• There is a search box appears when you embed Youtube video to your site. In order to hide the search box, you can simply add &showsearch=0 to the embed url.

• After watching Youtube video, you need to press ‘play’ button again if you want to replay it. If you want the video to replay automatically you can add &loop=1 to the url part of the embed code.

• To make Youtube video play automatically when it is loaded in a browser, you can add &autoplay=1

How to create Playlist in Youtube

In Youtube, a playlist is a list of videos you add in an organized order. In other words, it is simply a collection of videos, it is used just like a folder - organized by whatever criteria you deem appropriate. You can create as many playlist as you want. Videos in the playlist can be played randomly or in order you want. Playlist is quite similar with quicklist except that a quicklist is temporary (not saved when the browser is closed). All playlists can be set for two levels of privacy: “Private”, where only you can view it and “Public”, available for all users to view.

• First, you need to sign up to create Youtube account, otherwise you would not be able to create playlist in Youtube.

• When you are watching the video you want to add in the playlist, click the blue link “Playlist” below the vid.

• Inside the “Select Playlist” box, select Create New Playlist. Write the name of your playlist and you can add short notes about the playlist.

• Click “Add to Playlist” button and you will come to the page where you can enter additional information about the playlist such as Tags and Description, decide whether you want to make it private or public. Fill in the data you need to and save it.

• After you successfully creating a playlist, you can add some other videos into that playlist or creating another different playlist. The title of every playlist you created will appear in the “Select Playlist” box.

• To organize the order of your playlist you can click the dropdown menu on your username (top-right of the screen) and choose “Playlist”. Select which one of your playlist that you want to reorganize the order (at the left column of the screen). Then below of the page you will find list of videos from the playlist you select, click on the number next to the vid and change the order number.

How to make money with Youtube

Youtube, the most popular internet video networking community can be an excellent way to promote your website, affiliates, business or even making money with it. Since it can be used absolutely free, it is a great way to save on advertising costs.

The first thing you should do is of course register for Youtube account and follow the easy instruction provided. After that you can sign up for Google Adsense to earn extra income. Through Adsense, Youtube will pay your share from the revenues.

To do that, you need to sign up first for the Youtube partnership, a revenue sharing program. Create your original videos and try not to copy others, pick your niche and decide what type of video you are going to upload (comedy, casual video logging, news, how-to, drama series, product reviews etc). Adding a watermark on your videos to direct users to your website is a great idea (of course you need to have a website). You are also allowed to insert link in the description box beside your videos to your site and you can put affiliate links and adsense on the site.

Once you have enough videos in your account, promote them by sending it to your friends, social networking sites and forums. You can leave video responses to other videos that match your interests. Find the latest videos posted by the most popular youtubers, make responses that are interesting or funny. If the youtuber likes it, he might favorite it and even mention you in one of his videos then it is a good news for you. Favourites help because they post to the youtubers channel, it’s just like free advertisement. Respond to any emails or messages you receive on Youtube to build a relationship with your viewers. Make more videos and upload them to Youtube, the more subscribers and views you get the better. Make sure the video file format is acceptable for Youtube.

Add Blogger & Youtube profile photo

Here are two simple steps on how to add your photo to Blogger and Youtube profile.

To add profile picture or photo to Blogger:

• Sign in to your Blogger with your ID and password.

• Click Edit Profile next to your profile icon on top left.

• Scroll down until you find Photograph section.

• Click to mark at the radio button and browse to where your picture is located to be uploaded to Blogger profile.

• If you are finish uploading, scroll down to bottom of the page and click “Save Profile”.

• You are done.

Note: your Blogger profile picture will also be displayed automatically when you post a comment on a Blogger blog (depending on the blog’s settings). Click here to enable or disable that feature.

To add profile picture or photo to Youtube:

• Sign in to your Youtube account with your ID and password.

• Click “Account” from a drop down menu at the top right of the page.

• Click “Profile Setup” on the left of the screen.

• Click “Change Picture” button and browse to find your picture in the computer to be displayed as your thumbnail profile icon.

• Click “Save Changes” to save your update made to you Youtube channel.

• You’re done.

Tips & Tricks optimize StumbleUpon

In using StumbleUpon, there are rules to follow in order to get positive result and give your site a traffic boost. Here are some useful and popular tips that are used by many good Stumblers to optimize their websites:

• Set up your StumbleUpon profile is important.

• Don’t lead stumblers to main page of your website or blog.

• Create a good quality content and try to only stumble the best content of your website.

• Your content should be written in a way that cannot be digested just in one single visit.

• Don’t put so many advertising and selling products, it may looked cramped.

• Your website should have memorable branding and an easy to remember URL.

• Label and tag your submitted pages appropriately. Broad tagging helps. Find some popular and often searched keywords.

• Like Digg , Propeller, Reddit, Mixx and any related social bookmarking websites, making friends as many as you can and expanding your networking is one of the most important factor.

• Attach StumbleUpon button on your website to allow visitors stumble your web page easily.

• Stumble a page which link to you and encourage other user to do the same.

• You can buy sponsored stumbles, it means that you pay StumbleUpon for every targeted person they bring to your page. You can target according to personal interest, location, history of rating similar sites and demographics such as sex and age.

• Personalize your ‘About’ page and join the communities relating to your interests.

Basic guide how to use StumbleUpon

Different ways to stumble, follow this guide and enjoy the quick and easy way to explore StumbleUpon.

To stumble according to your one specific interest:
From the toolbar > All > select an interest.

To stumble other user’s favorites:
From their profile > click Stumble (you will stumbling to sites which are thumbed-up by that user).

To stumble within user’s tag:
From their profile > click one of their favorite tags > Stumble (you will be stumbling to sites that come within their tag).

To stumble pages only from certain website (e.g Youtube, Blogger), this is also called StumbleThru or Channel Stumbling:
From the toolbar > All > Stumble Thru.
From the website > Stumble Thru (on footer below).

Stumble pages based on keywords:
From the toolbar > search/ tag box > enter keyword > enter and Stumble.

To show the “search/ tag box”:
Go to Tools > Toolbar option > Search & Tagging tab > check the ‘Show search/ tag’ box.

To go back to basic stumbling:
Click on ‘Tools’ a drop-down menu of your toolbar > All, or
From the website > Discover tab > Stumble.


To change the type of sites you would like to visit:
Click ‘Settings’ on top right > Manage Interests > select the subjects which interest you > Save preference.

You will occasionally stumble upon a “sponsored stumble”. It means that an advertiser has paid to bring their site to you. This is indicated by a green-shirted person icon in the toolbar. You will only see sponsored web pages related to the topics you are interested in and you will not see more than one sponsored web page per fifteen stumbles.

You can also find out whether your website is already listed on StumbleUpon, to do that you can visit this link and type in your URL.


How to set up your StumbleUpon profile:
Click ‘Settings’ > Account Settings:
Fill in your name, email address, location and etc. You can choose whether or not you want to display your birthday to public.

Click ‘Settings’ > Customize Profile:
You can change your theme color, write a short description of yourself and select as many things you’d like other users to know about you.

Click ‘Setting’ > Profile Picture:
Upload your profile picture. A logo for your site or a close-up of you are perhaps the best choices.


Sharing your StumbleUpon with friends via email:
You can import your friend’s email contacts to find out which of them is already using StumbleUpon so you can add/ subscribe to them or invite your friends to join for those who haven’t.

Click the Stumblers tab > click on ‘See who you know’ > Find friends > enter your email address and password > Find friends.
Mark the checkbox next to the name of your friend/s who already use StumbleUpon to make them your StumbleUpon friendd.
Mark the checkbox next to the name of your friend/s who do not use StumbleUpon to invite them to use it.
Click Invite.

Submit articles to StumbleUpon How To

How to add a web page to StumbleUpon:

When you are giving ‘thumbs up’ for an article, if the web page is already in StumbleUpon, the image will highlight andd nothing else will happen. You still can add a review of the page by clicking the ‘text balloon’ button in the toolbar. If the web page is not already on StumbleUpon, a pop-up window will open asking you for a title and description of the content as well as a classification of wwhat type of article it is. Adding details about the site would be useful for any stumblers and also for your StumbleUpon profile. You need to fill in the title, the review, topic category, tags and other necessary details. You can also find out whether your website is already listed on StumbleUpon, to do that you can visit this link and type in your URL.

If you find a site which you think is good or interesting, don’t hesitate to make the owner of the site happy by clicking the ‘i like it’ button. If you are the first person who Stumble the article, you ‘discover’ it, it means your profile will show up on the reviews page for that article, and of course it can drive traffic back to you. When you Stumble other people’s posts and they see an increase in traffic, they will curiously want to know where that traffic came from, so it will leads them back to you.

Therefore it is also important to have a well established profile on StumbleUpon before you start Stumbling further. Add your URL, you can change the Layout and colors, put more information about yourself and etc.

StumbleUpon is a good technique for building lots of backlinks to your website. To generate traffic with StumbleUpon.com really depends on the quality of your content. Try only to stumble the best content on your site. Don’t stick to a site which is intended to sell things, people would be more likely to click the “dislike” button and that would further decrease the popularity of your site.

Create link on StumbleUpon profile

Your StumbleUpon profile can be a great place if you want to promote your website. When the StumbleUpon users reach your profile page and want to know more about you the chances of these visitors checking out your site are so much greater if you have a clickable link to bring them to your site. It’s very simple to create link from your StumbleUpon profile to your site, here’s how:

• Go to your StumbleUpon account and click “Settings” on top-right corner of the screen.

• Go to the second tab and click “Customize Profile”.

• In the “About you” section, the first line there you will be asked to “introduce yourself to everyone”. You can start making your link inside the empty box provided with your profile details. You can create the clickable link to your site by inserting the usual html code, which is:
  
  <a href="http://www.sadhycia.blogspot.com/">your text here</a>
  
  Change my URL (the blue text) with yours and change the red text above with whatever you like. The text is going to be your link to direct visitors to the URL you put.

• Don’t be surprised that StumbleUpon system will automatically add a “No Follow” code to the coding.

• Click “Save preferences”. Take a look at your profile and there will be a clickable link there which you’ve just created.

Create an account for StumbleUpon How To

Creating an account with StumbleUpon is an excellent way to meet other publishers and readers interested in similar topics. Here’s how to set up your StumbleUpon account, the membership is completely free:

• Go to www.stumbleupon.com.

• Enter your data needed in the sign up form. You can use the same username and picture with your other social media sites, then you have sort of branded yourself.

• StumbleUpon will send you an email, click the verification link in the email to verify your email address that you use to register for the account.

• Next, you might want to install the StumbleUpon toolbar to your Firefox (which is highly recommended).

• Once the toolbar is installed you can start doing a few things: login and customize your preferences by choosing the topics which interest you most (education, sport, computer, cars, business, humor, etc). After that, press Stumble! button on top left of your toolbar and it will shows you sites which they think you will like it based on your preferences, to start viewing new page over and over again just simply clicking the Stumble! button again and again.

• If you like the page that shown to you, click the blue ‘thumbs up’ or ‘i like it’ button to reward the site and recommend it to other Stumblers. And if you don’t like the page you can click ‘thumbs down’ button to give poor rating and StumbleUpon will start to learn what you don’t like and will not showing it to you again. Writers should never only stumble their own content.

• Other button in the toolbar allow user to easily share with other StumbleUpon members, bookmark favourites, look up info and more.

What is StumbleUpon?

StumbleUpon is a social website which allows its members a new way to experience the internet. It offer free service that can help you to find and share good websites, photos, videos, blogs with others. It offers a toolbar for you to install and put it in your browser. Once installed, you select which categories you want to view. Simply click on the Stumble icon on the toolbar and it will show you pages based on the topics which you chose and you might be interested. All the sites that are stored in StumbleUpon database is submitted and recommended by other Stumblers. If you like what it shows you then you can rate it as ‘good’ by clicking the thumbs up icon, if you are not interested then click the thumbs down icon and they will know not to show you content like that again. StumbleUpon learns your preferences and starts introducing you sites more to your liking. The page you thumbs up will be saved to your StumbleUpon list of favorites.

It is also a great way to weed out bad and lousy sites from the system so other Stumblers don’t have to view them. Stumbler is someone who uses services provided by StumbleUpon. If a lot of people click the thumbs up for your site, your site will be shown more frequently by the system whenever users start Stumbling in that site’s category. This means that StumbleUpon can help your traffic and SEO increased too. The more votes your site received, the more traffic you get, it’s that simple.

Signing up for a StumbleUpon account is free and easy. Much like other social media such as Digg, , Propeller, Reddit, Mixx, Facebook and the like, users can set up a profile with a bio and personal data and befriend other Stumblers. Many articles online now provide a StumbleUpon logo button near the bottom of the page to allow readers to add the article to their account as simple as one click. Stumbled articles and other content are divided into 500 categories, this makes content publisher easy to find their targeted readers.