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What is the Digg share button?<\/a>
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The\u00a0<\/strong>Digg Share Button<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0allows your website visitors to simply click a button to instantly \u201cdigg\u201d your content<\/strong>\u00a0(to submit it to, or vote for it on, the Digg website). Although users can submit a URL manually to Digg, there\u2019s a much greater chance they\u2019ll actually digg your content if you make it easy for them to share to Digg! A one-click button is a great way to do that and of course you can integrate it with all your other sharing buttons.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n

What is Digg?<\/a>
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Digg describes itself as \u201cthe homepage of the internet\u201d and \u201cwhat the internet is talking about right now.\u201d<\/strong>\u00a0It features user-submitted news stories, articles, videos, and more. If articles get lots of \u201cdiggs,\u201d they\u2019ll appear on the front page of Digg \u2013 often getting a huge amount of traffic.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Digg is similar in some ways to Reddit, though without the same community discussion focus: users can vote for content and the more votes it gets, the more likely it is to be prominently featured.\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n

How does Digg work?<\/a>
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Digg lets users submit (or \u201cdigg\u201d) any content on the web that they like.\u00a0As Digg itself describes this<\/a>,\u00a0\u201ca digg is a thumbs-up \u2013 a positive vote \u2013 for a story that means you want other people to see it.\u201d\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

To \u201cdigg\u201d content, you enter the page\u2019s URL, add a short description, and choose a category. Submitted articles will appear in the \u201cUpcoming Articles\u201d page: other users can choose to \u201cdigg\u201d or \u201cbury\u201d those submissions if they want to.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

If a submission gets a lot of diggs, it\u2019ll appear on the Digg front page of \u201cPopular Articles.\u201d That piece is then likely to get a big boost in traffic, as curious Digg users visit.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

You can sign up for Digg using your existing Facebook, Twitter, or Google account (Digg doesn\u2019t have a way to sign up for an account without using one of these three services).<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n

Is Digg still worth using?<\/a>
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Digg was founded in 2004 and became particularly popular around 2007 \u2013 2010, with lots of internet marketers advocating to use it as a way to drive website traffic. It was so popular, in fact, that an article that got lots of Diggs could end up crashing a small website due to the huge influx of traffic.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In 2010, though,\u00a0a combination of factors led to Digg becoming less popular<\/a>\u00a0\u2013 until the company was split into pieces and sold off in 2012.\u00a0The new owners of the website rebuilt Digg and, while it\u2019s not as popular as it once was, it still has a solid user base.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n

Can you \u201cdigg\u201d your own content?<\/a>
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It\u2019s best not to submit your own posts to Digg too frequently:<\/strong>\u00a0Digg frowns upon this as it can easily become spammy. Instead, encourage your website\u2019s visitors to digg the content that they enjoy on your site. You could do this with a request at the end of key posts, or simply with sharing buttons \u2013 such as the\u00a0Digg Share Button<\/a>\u00a0\u2013 so they can easily digg any piece they want.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":46,"featured_media":14872,"parent":15265,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"ghostkit_customizer_options":"","ghostkit_custom_css":"","ghostkit_custom_js_head":"","ghostkit_custom_js_foot":"","ghostkit_typography":"","footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-15302","page","type-page","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"yoast_head":"\nDigg Share Button \u2013 Add to Your Website | ShareThis<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Install a Digg share button to encourage users to submit your content to Digg, increasing visibility and discovery.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, 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