Great comment, thanks for dropping by and contributing. Quite right about SEO articles not doing well on Digg, as point 8 above sayd “Not all topics are equal” in the eyes of these networks.

That’s an interesting thought about Google seeing a relatively low number of Diggs as a negative, but I’ve not seen any evidence for it (although technically it’s certainly very possible the could do that). The value in terms of backlinks however doesn’t come from Digg (or any of the other networks) but rather from new users finding your site, and then linking to your from their own sites and blogs.

Also, submitting your own articles is the quickest way around, to get 1 Digg. Get someone else to submit it for you.

I have found 15 sites so far that Google will follow back to your site and return a backlink in Google results.

However, think about this: If Digg has 5 million users and the average number of posts, from the Digg top 100 to the user who no longer participates is 1 post per day, that is 5 million posts.

How can you possibly expect that Google will see your 1 link in Digg in 5 million others as a backlink to your site. In fact if you submit your site to Digg and no one else Diggs it, I have come to feel that is a negative indicator in Google’s eyes. The worst thing you can do is submit your Digg posts yourself and then get no Diggs.

One of my friends on Social Marketing Central wrote an article that went hot on the Internet. He got like 1500 visitors in a few days and 80 comments. The bad news is that he only got 18 Diggs. Now tell me this: Don’t you think that Google, that has access to the popularity of posts on Digg just like we do, would not see 1500 visitors and 18 Diggs a negative indicator of this blog and the blog post itself?

It takes 50+ Diggs before Google sees your backlink as valuable.

I can easily get 100 to 200 Diggs for any article I want in Digg in 2 days. I do that through my own strategies and participation.

So social bookmarking if done wrong can actually hurt you. Social marketing is about being social, so be social on social bookmarking sites, don’t just submit you own content and expect that this will bring you results.

Also, Internet marketing articles do not do well on Digg, especially SEO articles or articles critical of Digg.

Billy