There are quite a few ways to build traffic, and decent backlinks using Digg. This particular idea uses the sites Digg links to, instead of the Digg article pages to generate traffic and backlinks. And if your lucky, they won’t be no-follow backlinks.

This method does not have to be used just on Digg either. Any relevant social media news site will work. What it comes down to, is finding content that is going to become popular or has just become popular. Once you find the content, chances are there will be an option to leave a comment. Very simple, go and leave a comment on the content page and on the Digg/Social Site you found it on. The idea behind this is that the content page itself most likely does not have many links pointing to it yet. Once it becomes popular (espcially with Digg) the page will recieve tons of exposure and dozens of backlinks. That linkjuice will now be passed on to you. Propeller, Newsvine, and Shoutwire are some other great places to snipe.

Keep in mind that you should keep any and all comments relative to the content. Spam most likely won’t stick once the traffic gets jacked up becuase people are going to all over that page and notice you are simply dropping a link.

If you answered Yes, you came to the right place. One of the most underused techniques when it comes to generating traffic from Digg is comments.

Lets say you have a website you want to promote that you cant necessarily submit a bunch of posts from to hit the Digg front page. No problem! Now keep in mind that comments will send you traffic but nowhere near as much as a front page submission would generate.

Now for an example Lets say your promoting…. Netgear routers for whatever reason and your site / splog has all kinds of Netgear router information. Your first step is to pull up Google and construct a simple little query as follows: “[keyword] site:digg.com”. For us this looks like:

netgear routers site:digg.com

Okay, now as you can see from Google’s 238 results there are plenty of places to drop some comments. The next step is going to be finding pages that dont have too many comments on them. I would say a good rule of thumb is stay away from any pages that have the ‘click to see more comments’ bar as most people wont be finding your link. I have dropped links on pages with 30+ comments and still get 300+ hits a day from those pages. Its all about finding pages as close to the top of googles results as possible.

What this will insure is that not only will people browsing Digg see your links, but unsuspecting people who happen to find the Digg page from a search will also be greated with your link. The next step is to write out your comment. Simply dropping a link will not work. Try to intice people or provide them a little info on the site. In our Netgear Routers example you could use something as follows:

“Hey, this router has some major security issues. You can read about them at http://www.yournetgearblog.com and find more secure routers too!”

As you can see this idea is very simple but just requires a bit of enginuity and creativity to work well. I can tell you that if you hit terms that people are doing searches for (more than browsing Digg for) you can actualy get some very nice conversion rates. Another little hint I will let you in on is that to find these search pages keep in mind that you dont have to use pages that made the front page of Digg…

Now that you can exploit Digg comments, get out there and make some cash.