Digg for Blogger.

Digg.com is a social news site where everything is submitted by you. After you submit a news story to Digg other contributors vote for or "digg" the story and it makes its way to the front page of digg where millions see it and this generates traffic to your blog........

When a story receives 40 to 60 diggs it becomes more likely to come on the front page of digg.com. If your blog has an intresting story you can submit it to Digg and see if it climbs up the charts and drives traffic to your site.

You can submit your blog to digg.com in a similar fashion. You can become a registered member of Digg and comment on the different news articles. Members can also make “friends” with other member and view their statistics. Digg’s emphasis is on technology, science, politics, entertainment and politics. Digg also allows you to track your friends' activity throughout the site — want to share a video or news story with a friend? Digg it!

DIGG BUTTON FOR YOUR BLOG

You can put a Digg Button on your sidebar to help viewers digg your blog. There are two sizes normal and compact. To put it in the sidebar go to Template------>Page Elements and click on Add Page Element link in sidebar. Choose Html/Javascript option and paste the following code in contents window :



<script type="text/javascript">
digg_url = 'WEBSITE_URL';
digg_bgcolor = '#ff9900';
digg_skin = 'compact';
</script>
<script src="http://digg.com/tools/diggthis.js" type="text/javascript"></script>

The digg_bgcolor option can take any valid CSS color and is used only to change the background color around the outer edge of the button. If omitted, the default color is white. The digg_skin option controls the look at the button. If omitted the button defaults to a standard digg button (much like the one you see on Digg itself). If specified as 'compact', then a smaller horizontal visual design is used that will fit better into a list of links.

DIGG BUTTON FOR EACH POST

To enable viewers to submit your post to Digg provide a button link below your posts. First right click the above button and save it to your hard disk. Then upload the button to a freehost like Googlepages. Copy down its link. Then login to Blogger Dashboard and click on Layouts for your blog. This will take you to Page Elements tab. Click on Edit Html tab next to it and first download your template to PC using Download Full Template link. Then put a check in Expand Widgets Template radio box at top of template box. Scroll down in Edit Template text box until you come to this line in the Blog Posts widget :

<p class='post-footer-line post-footer-line-3'>

Copy and paste the following code after the above line :

<a expr:href='"http://digg.com/submit?phase=3&url=" + data:post.url' target='_blank'><img alt='DiggIt!' src='URL OF DIGG BUTTON AT FREE HOST'/></a>

In the above code replace the "&" character with "& a m p ;" without the spaces to make it XHTML compatible. Save Template.

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