The Digg.com API may have certain vulnerabilities which programmers can take advantage of when submitting stories to the site. I don’t know. But I can tell you how to almost always increase your readership on Digg and other sites organically.
In a Part 1 of this post, I discussed how to optimize your headline and title content.
The second key ingredient to successful organic optimization of digg and other submissions is post timing. Recent reports suggest that Saturday receives the highest open and click-through rates for email marketers. So when is the best time to submit an article to digg or other social bookmarking sights? Surely there is an optimal time to have your content added.
If we assume that digg readership peaks at the same time that blog publishing does, then, according to the recent technorati State of the Blogosphere Report, ideal submission times would be between 10am and 2pm Pacific Standard Time (PST).
This post was ready to publish last night. But, in order to optimize its publication, I waited until 11am PST today to submit it to digg.com. While it requires a bit more planning and organization on your part, if you schedule your submissions (digg.com, RSS pings, blog posts, industry forums and emails) during high traffic periods you will almost always increase your readership.
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