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The 100% guaranteed way to get a front page story on Digg!

This is not a joke. This really works…

The 100% guaranteed way to get your story promoted to Digg’s front page (assuring you of 1,000s of visitors in a few hours and the wonderful prospect of server overload) is…

Get Kevin Rose to submit it for you.

Yes, it’s really THAT simple.

You see, Kevin is the 100% man. His submits never fail to make it to the front page. Indeed, in the last 365 days he has submitted 145 stories and EVERY SINGLE ONE has made it to the front page.

So how do you get Kevin to submit one of your posts?

I have absolutely no idea whatsoever!

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Lyndon Antcliff

Posted 1 year, 6 months ago // Permalink

Which raises the question.
Does Kevin Rose game Digg?
SEO Mash

Posted 1 year, 6 months ago // Permalink

And therein lies the problem of exactly what is wrong with Digg.
Brent Hodgson

Posted 1 year, 6 months ago // Permalink

Surely Step One would have to be traffic generation - “Get Kevin Rose to visit your web-site”

Step Two is targeting your audience - “Target your content to appeal to Kevin Rose”

Step Three is maximising conversion - how do you maximise the chances of Kevin Rose then Digging your page?
Hsien Lei

Posted 1 year, 6 months ago // Permalink

Who’s Kevin Rose?
jhay

Posted 1 year, 6 months ago // Permalink

Of course, now let’s just find ways for Kevin Rose to actually Digg our content.
Brett Evans

Posted 1 year, 6 months ago // Permalink

Yeah, I have no clue who is Kevin rose….and who is that guy that is staring in my window?
Jonathan-C. Phillips

Posted 1 year, 6 months ago // Permalink

Isn’t Kevin Rose the founder of Digg?
No wonder the posts he diggs gets on the frontpage, hehe. With that said, think i’ll try to find his e-mail addy and send him a couple of my posts, never know!
The Thinking Blog

Posted 1 year, 6 months ago // Permalink

/sarcasm

I think Kevin has a few friends who digg his stories..
Nicholas

Posted 1 year, 6 months ago // Permalink

Or maybe Digg should be renamed, “The Kevin Rose Effect”

That’s alright, Digg isn’t an important part of my life anyway.
Deborah

Posted 1 year, 6 months ago // Permalink

That’s too funny!

I’ve seen the username Kevin Rose, but just thought it was someone being a smartass.

Truth be told, I’ve rarely dugg his stories, hehe. But then, he isn’t one of my ‘friends’ on Digg. I’ve rarely submitted stories because I don’t have enough friends to get anywhere.

I wonder if you’ll get dugg for this, or if it would get buried if it was submitted The title’s catchy!
Avinash

Posted 1 year, 6 months ago // Permalink

Agree with Brent Hodgson’s step1 & step2.
mblair

Posted 1 year, 6 months ago // Permalink

Actually, I don’t think even Kevin Rose was able to get a story to the front page during the Digg riots a couple nights back
Tim Nash

Posted 1 year, 6 months ago // Permalink

####Very tongue in cheek#####
I think a quicker strategy would be,

1) Write a string of numbers
2) Digg it
3) Send a threatening letter to Digg demanding its removal
4) Wait till user account is banned
5) Blog about evil Digg

If your really lucky your site will get dugg 3 times
1) the first Digg
2) The evil Digg post
3) Kevin Rose apologising (hmm maybe not)
##### End of bad taste #####

Of course you could always send him an email or get him on IM and ask him to make some suggestions about the site
Alister Cameron

Posted 1 year, 6 months ago // Permalink

@Mark - actually… his latest submitted story has hit 35,000 diggs!! I’m guessing that makes it the most dugg story ever?!

@Tim - very tongue in cheek, indeed. So… do you know his IMs?
Michael » Blog Reviews

Posted 1 year, 6 months ago // Permalink

It is really intersting… I believe that on sites like Digg what you submit does not matter that much, it is who submits it.
Church of Integrity

Posted 1 year, 6 months ago // Permalink

That was hilarious yet a good tip. I’ll definitely take this into account in my scheme to take over the world *insert evil laughter*
Jayce Ooi

Posted 1 year, 6 months ago // Permalink

Digg is kind of new to me. Really need some time to look into it.
Lucia Liljegren

Posted 1 year, 6 months ago // Permalink

Hmmm… I’ll have to wine and dine Kevin. Where does he live? I need his address to send the engraved invitation!
Aaron Bassett

Posted 1 year, 6 months ago // Permalink

It might have the additional benefit of getting your site mentioned in diggnation as well
Sam

Posted 1 year, 6 months ago // Permalink

Perhaps if we threaten this “Kevin Rose” with trampling by water buffalo, he will tell us his little secret?
Deaf Musician

Posted 1 year, 6 months ago // Permalink

That’s just awesome and a funny post. I wish you really did know how to get Kevin to post it, you probably gotta pay him!
mossiwo

Posted 1 year, 5 months ago // Permalink

I guess is helpful to know that
Alan Liew

Posted 1 year, 5 months ago // Permalink

This is really a amazing story. Whatever Kevin Rose bookmark in Digg, they will sure attract many diggs by other people. I think is not about the headline. It is the username kevinrose, whatever he diggs others will like to suppport him. Seems like he has help many websites get thousands of traffic and make money for those websites.
Kevin Rose

Posted 1 year, 5 months ago // Permalink

What?
blavish

Posted 1 year, 5 months ago // Permalink

Um Just get your own website and post something on your own frontpage. Or post something on http://www.dumpfolder.com.
Steven G Winstead

Posted 1 year, 5 months ago // Permalink

What is Digg?
Matt Ellsworth

Posted 1 year, 5 months ago // Permalink

Wow thats wierd for sure - it begs the question of what is going on…
Pete White

Posted 1 year, 5 months ago // Permalink

Alternatively you could just write something interesting enough to make it to the front page
Gabrielle

Posted 1 year, 5 months ago // Permalink

Love. It. We need more blogging tips like this!
prepagate

Posted 1 year, 5 months ago // Permalink

True Kevin is a great guy, but sometimes I wonder if many diggers have a little overly godlike opinions of him…
Sueblimely

Posted 1 year, 5 months ago // Permalink

Kevin is a my ‘friend’ on MySpace and Digg. Not really sure why as I am one of thousands; there is not going to be any mutual social networking going on.

Those thousands will have access to all his post updates which is bound to increase his Digg count.

In addition the articles that are Digged (DUgg?) originate from the official Digg blog, not Kevin’s personal blog. Not surprising that this blog has a large following and the Digg button under each post helps. Kevin’s personal blog just comprises of posts with links to external sites.
Paypal2u Bloggers

Posted 1 year, 4 months ago // Permalink

Who the hell is Kevin Rose?

Is’t the spammer? full time digger? digg founder? or republican?
alex (intelli mind)

Posted 1 year, 4 months ago // Permalink

if only i had the connections. He should charge people for submissions. Its genius
Matt Ellsworth

Posted 1 year, 4 months ago // Permalink

as far as i know kevin rose is one of the digg founders… so it would stand to reason that what he submits is front page.
Alan

Posted 1 year, 4 months ago // Permalink

Hmm, I knew this wasn’t going to be easy .
Jobe

Posted 1 year, 4 months ago // Permalink

Even easier just get SensoryMetrics.com to write about it.

You can easily ping them an email from their site. You can’t get much more traffic than that!
Alister Cameron

Posted 1 year, 4 months ago // Permalink

@Jobe - that has to be the crappiest self-promotional plug I have ever read (after anything and everything by John Chow). But I’m a happy man today so you get away with it. But don’t try it again!
Dev from Daily Moolah

Posted 1 year, 3 months ago // Permalink

Which brings us to the same concept of trust - Google Trust rank for example gives the #1 spot for pretty much any keyword to sites like wikipedia. It’s much of the same with Digg - The master Rose can manipulate the system in any way he wants.
Urbanist

Posted 1 year, 3 months ago // Permalink

Gotta update it to something more like 99.7%

http://digg.com/offbeat_news/XREP_Taser_via_Shotgun
Patrick Burt

Posted 1 year, 3 months ago // Permalink

Step 1 - Kevin Rose
Step 2 - ????
Step 3 - Profit
Symbian

Posted 1 year, 2 months ago // Permalink

Kevin should be a really lucky digger.
Syd

Posted 1 year ago // Permalink

How does this guy’s stories always make it to the first page of digg? Is there something fishy there or is it just that he has a lot of friends who vote the stories submitted by him?

What is the strategy this guy is employing? I want to know. If I too can implement this strategy then wouldn’t it be so wonderful.
Former Fat Guy

Posted 8 months, 1 week ago // Permalink

now that’s funny
Adam

Posted 6 months ago // Permalink

Does this guy have an army of diggers working for him?
Adult Ühler

Posted 5 months, 3 weeks ago // Permalink

Very funny post
Black Zedd

Posted 3 months, 2 weeks ago // Permalink

Maki from doshdosh.com also frequently front-paged Digg. I think they’re not gaming the system, they just have millions of followers to drink the kool-aid..
rumah dijual surabaya

Posted 1 month ago // Permalink

hei doesn’t anyone try to search in Google or anywhere else ?

Kevin Rose is the founder and site architech of Digg!!!
but I don’t thing that he play the game on Digg and neither his friend play the Digg game since he only has 107 friends

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