Back in March 2008 I spoke at UYMG. It’s an event run by a very popular internet marketer Stephen Pierce. I was invited to talk about SEO. After the seminar, someone from the audience approached me to help promote his documentary video but what could I do with SEO? I knew SEO wouldn’t cut it fast enough so I turned to digg & YouTube and somehow I stumbled across Zaibatsu (Reg Saddler). I mean he was all over digg back then.

I really wanted to help out this dude so I tried to contact Reg. Must have left him a dozen emails and messages on his other profiles including Skype all within 3 days. I think it was my persistence and annoyance that Reg decided to talk with me. Anyways after an hour with Reg he decided to help me out. One thing I remembered most about our talk is Reg asking me why I wasn’t using digg? At that time I had a dead account which I never really used.

From that point onwards I decided to try out digg for about 1 month. Like a newbie I got hooked in trying to understand how it worked. Eventually my 1 month trial turned into 4 months. This is when I made the top 100 diggers list. It was like a drug, hearing the little bell chime from Digg Alerter was the only thing that made my day (yes it’s sad, how geeky am I?).

So how did I get to that top 100 list in 4 months? Hard work and dedication. I spent hours on digg everyday learning as much as possible. I tracked everything I did and studied what power users did. I even got all the stats from SocialBlade and studied the times and the frequencies of FP’s (front page - made popular) from the top users. And you know what I learned, absolutely NOTHING!

After that I decided to just submit content and study what content made the front page and what didn’t. I eventually realized that the 1# contributing factor to getting a FP , was the content & title. Once I found this out, my fp’s were hitting fast and often. There are of course many other factors to getting a fp and if you’re interested here’s my post “12 Tips To Improve Your Digg Profile and Stats” read it and share your thoughts.

Ok, my story is not glamours but that’s how I started on digg. I must give thanks to Stephen Pierce for inviting me to his event and Reg Saddler for his part in getting me to use digg, and sad enough Reg got banned in 2008 for some BS reasons.

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Tags: Digg, power user