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How to Help Promote this Site Using Digg.com

Last Updated on Thursday, 28 January 2010 16:36 Thursday, 28 January 2010 16:35

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An excellent way to promote articles on this website is to use social bookmarking websites like Digg.com. Here are the instructions for usng one of the most important social bookmarking sites--Digg.com. It looks more complicated than it actually is.

1. Click on the Digg button in an article, it takes you to the Digg site.
2. Once there, you have to register with the site and log in (top centre of page) before you are allowed to start the submission of the article.
3. Once logged in, the site takes you to a page which says: "We are digging through your submission." This takes a few seconds.
4. When it is finished, it presents you with a brief form to fill in--a title and description. For the description, you could--if you are pressed for time--just cut and paste the first paragraph of the article. But if you have time, type in an interesting sounding, attention grabbing "shock, horror" title and description that will get people's attention. This is very important in getting the votes of other Digg users.
5. Then, scroll down and choose a category--this will be usually be "political news" or "political opinion."
6. Scroll down again to the bottom of the page to where it says "Are you human" and fill in the series of letters and numbers (known as a captcha code). This is to prevent automated spambots abusing the site.
7. Digg may then take you to a page that asks you if your article submission is already on the site--it will ask you to check through a list of about a dozen other previously submitted articles which Digg.com thinks might be identical to yours. If you are pressed for time, just ignore them and scroll down to the bottom and click on the "totally original, I swear" button. But if you have time, read through the list of previous submissions and their descriptions and see if any are on similar anti-war topics and worth voting for. If they are, vote for each of them by clicking the digg botton next to them--the number of diggs the article has should then be increased by one.
8. Finally, you will end up at a page which says that your article has been submitted successfully.
9. Another thing you can do--when you have time--is to search the Digg site for other anti-war, anti-racist and anti-bigotry submissions and vote ("digg") for them. You can also bury (vote down) warmongering, racist, Islamophobic submissions. You can also leave a comment. If an article has really taken off and received thousands of Diggs, you will see lots of comments left by others. This is a good place to make our views known and to challenge the comments left by anti-union windbags, racists, bigots and warmongers, Islamophobes and apologists for torture etc.

Note 1. If the metadata section of the article on our site has already been filled in by the author, Digg will automatically use the description written there which will save you having to write it at the Digg site. Metadata is "data about data"--in this case a brief description of the article and a few key words.

Note 2. If you want to avoid logging in all the time at Digg.com, make sure cookies are enabled in your browser. This saves a bit of time, especially if submitting several articles.