How to get your Story on the Digg Front Page?

There is an impressive article in TechCrunch today, written by Muhammad Saleem.

9 Reasons Why The Digg Story Sells

Digg is an extremely popular Social bookmarking site, which allows its users to share bizzare, recent, shocking stories. If the story is good, people digg it, or vote for it. The more vote a story gets, the more popular it becomes.
A story with high number of diggs has to be good. Thus, good stories which are listed on the main front page of Digg recieve thousands of visitors, often crashing the servers of the sotes and taking them down. So much is the popularity of Digg.

Digg was an interesting concept. At first, it looked useless. But online News discovery, as it is known, really picked up big time, and made Digg and other social bookmarking sites like Reddit, Del.icio.us, Propeller and Shoutwire more popular.

On TechCrunch, Muhammad Saleem has given an excellent article, which I recommend you should read. Very interesting indeed.

Here’s a look at 9 elements that make a good story - one that people embrace and propagate through their networks - and how Digg has taken those principles to heart:

The 9 Reasons why Digg Story sells are

1. A great story rings true.
2. A great story makes a promise.
3. A great story is trusted.
4. A great story is subtle.
5. A great story happens fast.
6. A great story appeals to your desires.
7. A great story inspires a following.
8. A great story doesn’t contradict itself.
9. A great story agrees with your world view.

These are the ingredients that make a great story on Digg.

I recommend you check out the site http://www.techcrunch.com/2008/01/21/9-reasons-why-the-digg-story-sells/

I assure you the article is very interesting read.

———————————————————————–Here is a response posted by DivisibleByZero  on Digg

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About the only one of these that’s true is number 9: A digg story agrees with your worldview.

Here’s my list:
1) A popular Digg story mentions Ron Paul
2) A popular Digg story bashes George Bush
3) A popular Digg story bashes religion
4) A popular Digg story contains numerous grammatical errors in the headline.
5) A popular Digg story is really just some blog linking to some other blog, which may or may not eventually link to a credible source.
6) A popular Digg story has TASERs
7) A popular Digg story is about Digg
A popular Digg story is a “top 10″ list with more/less than 10 items.
9) A popular Digg story is in the “Political News” section when it should be in the “political opinion” section.