From the most obscure blogs to the biggest online destinations, Digg sends tens of millions of clicks to publishers each month. Publishers everywhere are using Digg to engage with their readers and increase traffic to their content. Get started now!

How to Get Started

Create a Profile
  • Every user receives content on their My News page by following profiles. Include your brand logo/picture and information about your organization in your profile to make it easy for users to follow you.
Publish your content.
  • As a publisher, you can submit content to Digg using Digg’s manual submission process.
  • Every new story that you publish will have a single Digg, and will instantly be posted to all of your follower’s My News.

Best Practices

Digg is a community of passionate users who take pride in the content they submit and engage with one another in discussion and promotion of viral content. Publisher who have had the best success on Digg participate in that community. They have cultivated a tight following on Digg by digging and commenting on content other than their own, and limiting the content they submit to just their best content.

Specifically, following these guiding principles will help your maximize your value from Digg...
  • Publish only your best stories to Digg. We recommend a maximum of 10 stories per day.
  • 9am to 6pm Eastern time are generally the best times for publishing.
  • Keep a steady stream of fresh, interesting content. Try to avoid submitting multiple stories at once.
  • Participate in the community by digging content other than your own, commenting, and following users.

Tools for Developing a Following

Promoting your Digg presence on your website enables your regular visitors to help your content receive Diggs, and ultimately increase the referral traffic you will receive from Digg

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Digg's audience is composed of a diverse group of highly educated professionals. Learn more about our audience demographics.

We plan to continue innovating to ensure Publishers have a meaningful experience on Digg - please reach out to us with any questions or comments. Enjoy Digg!