How to Buy Digg Votes, Increase Traffic, Make Money and Pay uSocial

Digg used to be one of the most prolific and helpful social bookmarking sites both quantitatively and qualitatively. But, in recent times (i.e. at least 5-6 months) I have seen the quality has been sacrificed unusually. The result? Good articles from not-so-reputed blogs didn’t feature at all in the first place. And the rich and influential media topped it, almost always making Digg look hilariously close to a bulletin board with a collection of news. Without being a narcissist I must confess that, ours is one of the most reputed technology blogs in India. We have had our fair share of Digg-ing. While some made it where we didn’t have faith enough and some qualitatively a lot better, very surprisingly, didn’t. So what do I want to point to with all these seemingly vague information which you already are sure of?

Let me give you the spice now. USocial lets advertisers buy votes on popular social bookmarking sites to catapult their links to sections of Digg, StumbleUpon or AOL’s Propeller services that get the most visibility. Confused?

Well its very simple. Pay them, they digg your article. It stays on the front page and you get thousands of visitors within minutes. You benefit from your blog big time and the best part is, as I have seen, at least 10% of them stick as a regular reader.

Clients pay $105 to $200 to kick-start a Digg submission, ensuring 100 to 250 votes. Digg is by far the top target, attracting about 60% of purchases, uSocial says. StumbleUpon gets 35% and Propeller (the least trafficked but cheapest option) gets 5%.

This is surely a type of bureacracy . At this part of the world, if this spreads and grows up, then the bookmarking sites will be filled up with power-playing media houses. Money will buy me traffics - that is the scariest situation for a quality conscious blogger. This is just not another news but twitterers too are talking about this. Take a look and another

What do you think of this issue? Before leaving, I will give you excerpts of two important people in the context.

Digg’s VC said that they have sent letters to uSocial and will do anything to stop them.

Leon Hill, uSocial’s CEO said, they aren’t doing anything illegal. Its all under the law and Digg can not go against it by rule.

Your take?

[Source: latimesblogs.latimes.com]