Found some interesting links. Top 10 Reasons Why This List Will Be Popular on Digg, includes some pretty useful info including mention of the WP Super Cache which helps protect your hosting in case of a massively successful Digg. He also brings up the good point of having a Digg Button at the top of your post so people can Digg your article conveniently.

I also came across a site called Socialmediatrader. They did an analysis on what kind of content is most popular on sites like Digg, Propeller, and StumbleUpon. Propellers third most popular is Health, which is one of my major niches – so I will keep that in mind for future submissions.

I’m quickly noticing that the friend system on Digg is wildly different than that of Myspace. On Myspace is the quantity of friends you have that’s important, on Digg it’s the quality of your friends and their activity which carries the most weight.

I’ve decided to add the Top 100 Digg users to my friend list to see if I can make connections with these people, as they pull the most weight on Digg.

Linkbaiting.

Everyone is talking about it, but how many are really successful?

The folks over at SEOMoz really seem to know what they’re doing. According to one of their articles, they brought the site Drivl from 50 vists a day with 90 links to 5,500 visits a day and 19,000 links – in only 3 months. How did they do it? Solely with linkbait.

I especially like their article about how every site is linkbait worthy – it solves the problem of linkbaiting for more “boring” site niches like parts, for instance.

I’ve decided to really master the art of the linkbait – the more I think about it the more it seems like one of the best skills a webmaster could possibly have. It combines great content with amazing inbound link possibilities, all completely free of charge – what more can you ask for?

I will track my progress on this blog. I think it will take a couple of months to really get this down – probably 3 or 4, if not more.

What I Need to Do

1. Establish powerful social bookmarking accounts and grow the friends list on them. Digg, del.icio.us, Propeller, and StumbleUpon
2. Read Up on the Ultimate Guide to Linkbaiting Resources. An article a day.
3. Start Brainstorming Good Linkbait Headlines