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How To Drive Traffic To Your Website With Digg

Have you heard of Digg? Digg is a super popular social news website where people can submit any link they find newsworthy and then Digg's users choose whether to "Digg" the content or bury it. This basically works like a human filtered bookmarking service. People are constantly submitting new content to Digg and the audience quickly decides whether the content is newsworthy or not. Google caught onto this a long time ago and regularly crawls Digg looking for new content. Google know new content listed amongst it's search engine rankings will help perpetuate their reputation of having the most relevant, up to the minute results. Fortunately there is a way you can use this to your advantage.

You can improve your own search engine rankings by submitting your stories to Digg. Even if your story doesn't get dugg it will still be crawled right away by Google and listed fairly high amongst their search results. All this means more traffic for your website. Here's how you do it.

Step 1. Open a Digg account

Step 2. Submit a link to some new content on your website

Step 3. Wait an hour.

After as little as an hour you'll find your article listed amongst Google search results when you do a search for the article title. This is a great way to drive more traffic to your website. Make your own website at WebStarts.com

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