Do You Digg Yourself?

February 10th, 2006

I was checking referrals for my blog, and noticed that I was getting some traffic to my Spammer CEO post. Interestingly, my blog is now pulling (#1) for a query on “matt heaton” bluehost. I found that pretty amusing, and decided to try to drive some additional traffic to the post. So I hopped on over to Digg, and submitted my article. I hit a few of my friends with the post submission, and got a few diggs. I also got a couple of comments. One which reads:

Is he kinda like the people who spam their blog links on Digg?

What’s proper protocol with Digg? Do you ever submit some of your own articles, or do you only submit articles from other sources? In my zeal for traffic, did I commit a Digg faux pas??

5 Responses to “Do You Digg Yourself?”

  1. Walter Says:
    February 11th, 2006 at 10:45 pm

    Digging yourself is like digging in your cornhole - it’s ok to do it in private but don’t let your peers catch on…..

  2. greg Says:
    February 11th, 2006 at 11:06 pm

    very nice analogy.  terse, yet profound.

  3. Patricia Says:
    March 1st, 2006 at 3:25 am

    OK, Gregg, you just appointed yourself as chief researcher here! I’d love to know more
    about the protocols for using Digg.com. Whatever you find out, please post it so we can all
    share. Pleeeze.

  4. Kris Beldin’s Two Cents Blog » Blog Archive » Digg Ethics Says:
    September 20th, 2006 at 9:35 pm

    […] A number of people of have commented on using Digg. Read Greg Hartnett’s post and comments; Steve Rubel’s thoughts and responses; another post here and here. […]

  5. Christopher Says:
    November 29th, 2006 at 1:24 pm

    Does any one know how digg does those google ads so they are just one large one at the top?
    Jump on to any digg article to see what i mean (cant post links yet)

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