Digg was started as an experiment in October 2004 by Kevin Rose and Jay Adelson. The concept was to give people the chance to "dig" user submitted tech-related stories in order to get the most popular stuff in front of an audience that was interested in seeing the latest and greatest on the Internet.

After running for approximately a year, the site surpassed 100,000 users and as a result they were able to raise $2.8 million to help take the service to the next level. Shortly thereafter, digg.com grew to over 500,000 users and over 8.5 million unique visitors per month.

Digg is a social content site that is primarily being run by its members, with its administrators acting only at the backend as moderators.

Every content on Digg is, as they call it, "Dugged" by its members. Which means, once you join the community, you can submit articles you think are interesting enough to get a number of diggs (or votes) from fellow members.

However, if fellow members found that you are just spamming the community by submitting articles to promote your site, they will bury your articles (or give you a negative vote), which might affect your standing to the community and get you and your site banned.

Getting to Digg's frontpage is a dream of many website owners and online marketers. Digg has been known to help increase site traffic and a great linkbait tool meaning that a single article on Digg's frontpage can bring a site thousands to hundreds of thousands of visitors in a single day. That's every online marketer's dream.

The best way to get lots of Diggs (and for your site to get to the frontpage) is to create an interesting, highly informative or controversial article. Even if you don't submit that article yourself to digg, someone will pick it up and do the submitting for you.

Digg offers many tools to include the Digg buttons right to your sites so that others can Digg you as well. I would recommend you not digg your own articles and don't ever have more than one account per IP there or you will get banned.

How to use Digg:

· Digg other peoples articles and stories
· Submit quality content (Write a really good description and title)
· Add friends
· Leave comments
· Do not submit your own articles

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