Site-Hype

Are you a digg user? Have you noticed what all the top stories have something in common? It’s not a catchy interesting grabbing title, even though that might be the first the comes into your mind.

The one thing that by definition all top stories share on Digg is many votes! Dohh, obvious you might say. That is true by definition. So listen, the fact that a story Had many votes is a big reason the story is one of the top stories.

Let’s take a dive into social psychology.

Have you caught yourself doing something without knowing why? For example, at an airport or trainstation suddenly realising that you are walking without knowing if you are going in the right direction?

Chances are that you are simply following the crowd.

All human beings are programmed to follow the herd. Most of the time this is a good idea, a safe idea. We simply do as others do by default.

Group behaviour plays out on the social sites every day.

Stories with many votes get even more eyes since we looks at what others do. These stories get more votes simply because humans follows the group.

This idea is exploited and amplified by the social sites.

You can and should use this knowledge to your own advantage.

You need to do what you can do to get your story its initial votes. An small initial effort might do a huge difference in the end.

So here are a few practical directions to get your vital initial votes:

• Focus on few higher quality postings instead of many low quality posts.
• Focus on a few selected social sites and do manual submission, get it right.
• Tweak the submissions description to the audience of the social site
• Use your personal friends and ask them to help you
• Encourage people in your text to vote for it
• Use Site-Hype : social traffic tool to get more initial votes and comments
• Ask your Twitter followers to vote for your story.

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