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Ever wanted to become a power Digger? Come on now … sure you have.
Here’s how to start.
Its a well known fact that Digg trusts content from some sites more than others. Why not … the larger sites are obviously more conservative and more sensitive to public scrutiny. Such sites are much less likely to publish rubbish for fear of reprisals, lost confidence, and reputation management fiascos. As I talked about in my post last week 4 Pillars of Social Media Algorithms - Trust x4, Digg rewards sites it trusts by permitting them to go hot at lower votes counts than those it trusts less. Makes sense right?
So, lets then begin by identifying some of the most trusted sites by Digg:
1. Youtube.com
2. Yahoo News
3. ArsTechnica.com
4. CNN
5. News.com
6. NYTimes
7. BBC
8. Wired
9. Gizmodo
10. Flickr
11. Reuters
12. RawStory
13. Washington Post
14. Physorg
15. Kotaku
16. ThinkProgress
17. TorrentFreak
18. TechCrunch
19. Guardian.co.uk
20. Nasa and its subdomains
21. Dailymail.co.uk
22. Timeonline.co.uk
23. LiveScience.com
24. ESPN.GO.com
25. NewScientist.com
This is the ideal way to start building your profile … submit from trusted sources. Obviously, there are other factors at work too, but this is definitely one of the biggest.
Enjoy submitting, and good luck!
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10 Responses to “25 of Digg’s Most Trusted Sites”
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The Other Blog » Blog Archive » The Other Blog by Bradley Hart Says:
May 13th, 2008 at 8:59 pm[…] 25 of Digg’s Most Trusted Sites (tags: digg blogging socialmedia) […]
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How to Go from Nothing to 550,000 Social Media Visitors in One Month Says:
May 19th, 2008 at 12:01 am[…] and in the case of this client that is exatly what people started to do. Have you noticed how a lot of sites are constantly on the homepage of these social media communities and leveraging their […]
May 11th, 2008 at 7:53 am
Hmmm, I have certainly noticed that these sites go hot fast, but I’m kind of curious if we are seeing cause or effect.
Also, frankly, given the huge number of software errors we see in Digg I’m not sure I believe they have the ability to produce and maintain super-sophisticated algy’s.
I suspect “the man behind the curtain” more than anything else. ;_0)
-OT
PS - thought this and the trust article were very good!
May 11th, 2008 at 8:43 pm
@ Oliver Taco - I too think there may be a human element to assessing domain trust. Right now though, I really do think they’re selling out their heavy users, to artificially inflate usage numbers, to fetch a higher selling price. BUYER BEWARE!!!!
Thanks for commenting Oliver!
May 12th, 2008 at 11:15 am
Interesting report Jeff. Was looking into this over the weekend, timely list. I wonder if other major news outlets are not included due there lack of adding socializing buttons or if other reasons are involved.
May 13th, 2008 at 9:12 am
Interesting list, and not surprisingly, AOL is not amongst Digg’s top trusted source… Propeller. (*Wink* *Wink*) Yet Youtube and its user generated videos get more love from the social media site.
May 13th, 2008 at 10:21 am
I guess that is not more than normal. Sites like CNN most like will provide more valuable (or more trustful) content then some small blog.
May 13th, 2008 at 1:54 pm
I keep coming back to this article - I think that it is fascinating me in the old fashioned sense of the word.
Digg-a-maniac, I guess.
If anyone else is really interested in Digg, drop me an email, we have a Social Suite that has some very high end digg analytics and tools in it that we’re beta testing.
-OT
May 13th, 2008 at 3:47 pm
Wow! These is a nice list..^^..I just hope my site gets on this list next time..^^
May 18th, 2008 at 7:10 pm
Not only does Digg algo trust these domains more but users are more likely to Digg submissions from these sources as well.