Get Famous on Digg, Sphinn & Other Social Voting Sites

Jack Humphrey has been driving me batty though with a comment he left on my “How To Get Traffic From A List Bloggers” post. He wrote:

I think if Duncan knew how we’d be using this and the value of this thing he might think twice about giving it away again!

It is really getting me some good traffic just from the way it was intended to be used.

But then…there’s this other way to use it that REALLY kicks butt…

Whoops, phone’s ringing, gotta go.

I’m not a member at his Social Power Linking site, (keep meaning to sign up and get sidetracked with actual work!) so I don’t know what he’s referring to. But I’ve had the wheels turning in my wee brain since he posted it – “What’s another way to use CommentSniper???”

I’ve seriously gone to sleep each night since that post went up pondering it. So, Jack, curiosity works – you sure got me thinking!

Anyway, I’ve developed a theory that ya’ll might want to put into use that uses the free Comment Sniper to get more attention and traffic from social voting sites like Digg & Sphinn. I have no idea if this is what Jack talks about within his hallowed membership grounds – you’ll have to pony up a subscription to find out.

I have a Digg account, which I rarely use, because I’m not a “authority” figure on Digg and thus anything I Digg doesn’t get tons of attention. I also don’t spend my time actively seeking out interesting content for Digg, so I’ve not got a history of finding and digging interesting stuff.

At Sphinn, people sorta know who I am, but I’m not tied to my feed reader so most good posts that deserve a Sphinn have already been sphunn by someone else by the time I get around to it.

So… methinks one could take the feeds from blogs that often “go hot” at Sphinn, (or Digg, or whatever niche you work in) and get instant alerts when a new post is up, click through to Sphinn (Digg… etc.) and be the first to submit a new post. You’ll get attention as the submitter of a great story.

Keep doing it and you’ll be recognized as a loyal contributor of excellent content to the community, your profile will get more views, and you’ll become something of an authority figure at the site.

This all counts on you staying on top of new posts with CommentSniper, and only submitting excellent stories to the social voting sites.

If you look at Sphinn, you’ll see a number of bloggers who’s stories appear again and again in the “Hot” posts. Those are the bloggers you want to subscribe to with CommentSniper. When a new post appears, Sphinn it if it’s something you think Sphinn users would like. Voila! You’re famous!

With Digg, weird news and tech news go big fast. There are lots of blogs devoted to these topics – find ‘em, subscribe, and start Digging. Rinse, repeat. You’re famous!

Once you’ve got a profile on these sites that folks pay attention to, future submissions tend to get more votes, more attention, more click throughs. Here’s where you slip in your own marketing links and messages – assuming, once again, it gels with the community’s objectives. If it doesn’t, you’ll lose credibility quickly, so do use your influence carefully.