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One of the few things I’ve learned about blogging is to watch the news items showing up in my dashboard. Those little, ever changing grey boxes really are fairly awesome for highlighting new themes and other amazing plugins, but they also give you some serious insight into how blogging actually WORKS.

One of their newer articles covers ‘Digg saturation’. Basically, they say that if you’ve got lots of Diggs, Google ‘loves’ you more. Which makes a fair amount of sense. Digg is one of the social bookmarking success stories of the internet, and if people are voting for others on there - there’s got to be something in it, right?

Google, by admission, puts more ‘weight’ on sites with more incoming links - and it appears it treats each vote on Digg as either part of a whole incoming link, or a complete incoming link. While I can’t specify HOW exactly they’ve weighted their formula, I can say, for the moment, sites with lots of Diggs do really well on Google’s index.

Better yet - you can find out how well your digg saturation is going, simply by using this URL

http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=site%3Adigg.com+henrygold.com

Replace ‘henrygold.com’ with your domain and you’ll get a rough estimate of how ‘dugg’ you are.

In my next post I’ll be covering what Digg is, and how BEST to get the most out of it, and its other social bookmarking sites, so if you’ve got any questions, just leave a comment or drop me a line!

Till next time,

Kai