Can You Digg it?

by Phil Weslow
In our article, “How to Get Indexed Fast” we talked about placing Google AdSense ads on your website in order to potentially increase the speed with which Google would find and index your site. In this post we will examine yet another potent method for increasing the speed with which your site get’s indexed.

If you are just concerned with Google, then the previously mentioned Google AdSense method is still my number one pick. This next method will most likely help you to get indexed by more than one engine. Please keep in mind that combining different methods to encourage indexing is usually a good idea, so you don’t need to stick to just one technique.

So the second step that I would advise after placing Google AdSense ads on your site is for you to submit a page from your website to Digg.com. In order to submit a page you will have to register for Digg. The registration process is quick, painless, and free. Once you register, you can log into your account and then click on the tab at the top of the page that says “Submit New”.

After clicking on this tab you will be asked to provide the URL of the page you are trying to submit and whether your page is a “News Article”, “Image” or “Video”. My advice is just to pick whichever options comes closest to describing that page. For text based pages I usually pick “News Article”.

In the next step you will be asked to provide a “Title” and a “Description”. Both of these fields are text based, and you can just write something for each field. On this page you will also be asked to “Choose a Topic” from a list of potential topics. Once again just pick whichever topic comes closest to describing your page. For most of my posts I usually choose “Business and Finance” since that is the closest to Internet Marketing.

After that, chances are you will be brought to a page that asks you to confirm that you are submitting an original work. This page will bring up a list of pages, which have been previously submitted to Digg, which seem to be similar to that page you are trying to submit. Look them over and make sure that your page qualifies as being original, and if it does click on the link that says “Totally original, I swear!”

And that’s it; your page should be submitted. Just a word of caution at this point, as far as I know you can only submit a single URL to Digg one time. In other words if you have already submitted yourpage.com/cats you are fine to submit yourpage.com/dogs but youpage.com/cats has already been used. With this in mind you may want to be carefull about submitting your root directory, yourpage.com, to Digg.

In any case, the major search engines love Digg, and they seem to crawl it up down and sideways multiple times each day. This means that when you successfully submit a page to Digg, you can expect it to get indexed FAST!


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