Novice Bloggers

How to use Digg for stimulating conversation

Posted on 04. Sep, 2010 by Nitin in Blogging for beginners, Guest Posts, Simple Sarudays, Social Networks

This is a guest post from Nitin Agarwal, from OffshoreAlly.com

One of the greatest components to a successful blog is a loyal reader base that will draw even more traffic to your website. Most bloggers out there have a clear understanding that to draw even more readers, they need to cultivate an active blog full of comments and conversation.

How can you do this?

There are many suggestions out there for the best ways to stimulate blog conversation, but this #1 secret will far surpass any of the generic tips that you have heard in the past about how to get readers to comment on your blog. In short, using this tip will jumpstart your blog conversation, enhance your reader base, and bring even more traffic to your website!

First of all, use Digg to search for news related to your top keywords and niche market. This may be something you have tried before when looking for topics to blog about, but Digg is a wonderful tool to use since it will bring you popular news results that are by the people and for the people. This means that when you plug in one of your keywords into the Digg search bar, you will find the top news results that your peers have selected related to your niche market.

Look for controversy:

BUT – to take it a step further and truly stimulate your blog conversation, you must have an eye open for controversy. As an example, if there is a recent news article on Digg discussing a hot topic, like Obama supporting the mosque at Ground Zero, as an example, then you better believe that there will be numerous reader comments opposing this topic because it is such a controversial news article. This is where your creative thinking comes into play as a blogger because you need to uncover the counterview of the topic, write an opposing blog post, and stimulate conversation on your blog using a conflicting opinion. This simple task allows you to make big news articles work for you, and it is even more helpful if they relate to your blog theme or niche market.

Here is the secret:

To begin, you can title your blog post as a reply to the news article that you found on Digg. This title needs to respond to the news article with the opposite point of view so that you will attract all readers supporting the other side of the issue. As a bonus, you will also attract the readers that support the first issue because they will want to argue their point of view.

As another option, you can take a top news article on a serious subject and blog about it with a humorous point of view. The bottom line is that you want to capitalize on hot topics with a different spin so that those same readers will be prone to read your blog and contribute to the conversation. If you are covering an in demand topic that has already stirred up some controversy, you can count on the fact that it will provide the same benefit in bringing conversation and comments to your blog.

Use long tail keywords:

Last of all, use the wonderful resource of Digg to dig a little deeper, pun intended. Many bloggers make the mistake of only typing in their broad keyword terms into Digg to look for news related articles, like “health” or “marketing”. To take it a step further, you must start plugging your long tail keywords into Digg so that you can find much more relevant and specific blog topics that people will want to discuss. This will allow you to uncover much more specific news related articles to your niche market so that you not only have fresh and relevant content, but you also have the latest topics that people want to talk about.

Simple,yet powerful:

Yes, this may seem simple as a blogger, but I promise you that many people are not using this resource as they should to stimulate their blog conversation. Instead of using the same ole tactics to rouse conversation, like asking questions or doing reader giveaways, you can tap into the hottest global topics that people are really talking about to entice them to comment on your blog.

To conclude:

As a last rule of thumb, if you feel intimidated by blogging, researching, and creating news quality articles, consider a reputable freelancer to outsource this work to so that you can focus on advertising and marketing your company successfully online!

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