SEO: to digg or not to digg

Search engines optimisers are scratching their heads trying to make the best out of social bookmarking. Is it a new killer way to get high volume of inbound links, or not.

SEOMoz thinks that Diggs is not worth trying to trick: the argument is that people using digg are techno savvy, and will recoginse that you have tryed to trick them - you'll get some traffic, but without any value. These guys will never come back. And will never digg.

I would say that the post on SEOmoz was probably inspired by someone working at digg, and who sent the artcle to SEOmoz.

Because there are definitely clever ways to spam Digg.

SEO black hat provides with a few good tips.

I love this one: "Insult as many groups as you can. Flamewars are popular for a reason. Throw out bombs that dare people to comment on your story. If you haven’t pissed off half your readers by the end of your article, it’s probably because you don’t have the balls or you’re too stupid to figure out how."

Conclusion: don't listen to the "good content" evangelists. Follow their advice yes, because good content is what makes good web, and we are all consumers at the end of the day. But even good content, without anybody reading it, is worthless, so it's sometimes good to know a few tricks of the trade to help your site out bringing more traffic...