Hey,<p>This idea came to me this morning. Most of us are in the same boat, or at least trying to get there. We all have or are considering perusing startups - mostly web-based ones. Promotion is obviously one of the hardest issues to tackle in the process. I've been a big fan of this community for a good amount of time - mainly because we all have the same focus, and we all contribute so much to help each other. I think, and this is not just for myself, that we should all promote each others sites on Digg - for simple, and effective promotion. Lets make it a precedent for members to post their startups and on top of the constructive reviews and criticism we offer, we can help move the site up Digg for free exposure. Why not?<p>Again, please don't think I'm doing this just to spam my site around. Of course I'd love the exposure but I truly think we could help each other out with this; as we do with everything else.<p>If you like my idea, please Digg my site below. And feel free to start posting similar links.<p>Thanks,
Mike<p>http://digg.com/tech_news/Streetread_Google_Reader_meets_Wall_Street_3
I think you'll generally find that Digg is a big waste of time in terms of promoting a site. It takes a reasonable amount of effort to get anywhere near the front page, and then when you do you get a crush of mostly unqualified traffic from users who are not likely to ever visit your site again.<p>Self-submissions and "Digg groups" rarely ever work to elevate you above the bowels of the "Upcoming" pages. One of the things that Digg seems to be particularly good at is detecting this sort of activity.<p>Your time is better spent improving your app and promoting it where it is relevant. Wait for someone else to take an interest in it and let them submit to Digg/Mixx/etc.
Dugg it, I think I saw you somewhere else a few weeks ago, metafilter?<p>A stumble question for anybody who knows.
I was getting a bunch of traffic from Stumble Upon and decided to throw up a digg button. Of course, it was late and I didn't test it properly, so it essentially broke my site and nobody stumbled it anymore.<p>Once a site has been stumbled once, and not thumbed up, is there any way to get it going again?<p>My site is www.hearwhere.com
Do Unto Other Social News Sites As You Would Have Them Do Unto You?<p>To try to vote-stuff Digg would be to condone vote-stuffing of News.YC, too.<p>Alternate suggestion: just submit your site here for peer review. Include a Digg-this button on your entry page, as appropriate. Then those moved to Digg it will... without any unseemly quid-pro-quos or voting bloc behavior.