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Has this ever happened to you? You work really hard on a post. You use the right keywords and keyword density, optimize it for SEO, even instal the WP-Cache plug-in in anticipation of the extra traffic all thanks to this post. You even followed my top 3 ways to make your post successful on Digg and pour your heart into it. With hours of work behind this post you finally submit it to Digg. You are sure it will make it to the front page. You wait for a few minutes then check on the Upcoming page - 1 digg. You wait some more and you see the post only got 3 diggs and is slipping into the abyss. Then it is time you give BloggingZoom a try.

Why is BloggingZoom Better?

Readers don’t stop at the title. If they like the brief description of your article they WILL click through to your site. Most people, including me, go to look at the blog post and read it on the author’s site. This allows my visit to be logged on Mybloglog widget or BlogCatalog widget. It also allows me to comment on the post and interact with the author. Most of the time the author will visit my site via the comment link I left on his/her site.

D-ADD: Digg’s Attention Deficit Disorder

Visits from Digg users last typically under 10 seconds. Its impossible read a 400 word article (the average article size) in that time frame. It’s consistent with what Digg users are accustomed to. They scroll by 10 articles every minute and within 15 minutes they would probably judge 50 or more submissions. That’s all the time they have to decide – to digg or not to digg. BloggingZoom users, on the other hand, visit the blog for 2 to 3 minute on average. This seems to be the sweet spot and shows that the visitor is genuinely interested in the post and read through to the end.

Which Bloggers Zoom?

BloggingZoom is an infant compared to other established ‘Digg’ like sites. It is the most prominent site designed especially for bloggers where blog posts don’t have to compete with CNN articles or PayPerPost reviews. BloggingZoom has great potential and is receiving good reviews from several top bloggers. Check out reviews of BloggingZoom from the ultimate list of reviews compiled by Coutrney Tuttle.

Conclusion

BloggingZoom is created by bloggers for the general use of the blogging community. This is reflected in the sites design and the traffic that I have seen so far. The visitors that come in via zooms are mostly bloggers who interact by leaving comments or trackbacks. This generates targeted traffic from other bloggers and increases the awareness of your site.

BloggingZoom: The Infomercial

Let me end this post with an infomercial …

Are you sick of Digg? Are you experiencing any of the symptoms which include angry rants about internet, willingness to look away from computer screen, digging the worse articles on the planet? Then try a healthy dose of Zoom from BloggingZoom. It will reverse the ‘digg’ symptoms and put you on the path to ’zoom’ nirvana. You can have all of this for one time payment of FREE … yes you heard me right. It is free! So what are you waiting for register and start Zooming.

If Darwin’s concept of “Survival of the fittest” is applied to blogging, less than 1% of the 50 million blogs would survive. If you want to see this theory applied on the internet then look at digg. Digg has consistently produced and maintained the hottest news stories on the web. Powered by Digg’s users is not just a catch phrase but the foundation beneath Digg’s success. But whenever a blogger submits a story there is a one in a hundred thousand chance (same as winning the lottery) that it will make it to the Digg homepage. Here are the top 3 reasons why this happens.

Articles are judged by their titles
We all know a book should not be judged by its cover but all of us do it anyways. Generating funny and creative content simply isn’t enough for Digg. If your article does not have a powerful title no one will take a second look. Your submission title must be compelling enough for readers to click. In fact, if you don’t get enough diggs in the first hour chances are your submission will simply slip into the endless pages of Upcoming submissions and will fade away with just one (or two if you are lucky) diggs. Look at the top posts on the Digg homepage – they have short and compelling headlines. You will want to click them after one glance which is all your submission is going to get as more and more content is submitted to digg every minute.

Look at what you are competing against
Digg is meant to bring out the most popular stories on the internet. That means all sites are competing with each other to get their stories ‘dugg’. When a blogger submits their posts to Digg, the article is competing with news articles from CNN and BBC or product releases from Google and Microsoft or submissions from A-list bloggers who already have hundreds of readers ready to click Everyday more sites are adding a Digg This button to their stories and videos. When you submit a YouTube video of yourself eating cereal, it is competing against a video of 10 cats playing the piano at once (just made that one up). Who do you think will get Dugg? This means don’t submit all your articles to Digg. Wait for the one that you are really proud of, that you want to show off to the community. If you think you might be too passionate about the new article you wrote, take a step back and think “If I read this on another website would I submit it to Digg?” If you answered yes then go ahead otherwise sit back and keep trying.

Network of Friends on Digg
Only a small percentage of Digg users actually make it to the front page. Almost always it takes months to build a network of friends on Digg and numerous failed attempts to get to double digits. A close look at the top Digg users shows that the more half of the Digg’s successes are from the top users. SEOmoz clarifies this in an article titled Top 100 Digg Users Control 56% of Digg’s HomePage Content. My advice to you is to start building friends and have tons of patience. It might take up to a few months to gain popularity and trust among the Digg crowd that others will also vote for your submission.

A special note to fellow bloggers, Digg does not have to be the end of the road. Try submitting items to BloggingZoom and the rest. If your story eventually gets picked up by Digg be prepared for a jump in traffic and hopefully your hosting server will handle the load. Best of luck to all the would-be Diggers out there. I will see you on the Digg main page.