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In the world of online business, the success of your site doesn’t actually depend on the revenue you earn, but on how popular your site is. You must have a strong support network composed of links and other sites that recommend what your page has to offer. Hence, in order to be on top, you must be extremely popular especially to search engines-as they will be the one to keep you on the top page ranks.

When striving to become popular in your chosen niche, you are thus taught the basic white hat SEO techniques such as link building, as through the use of links your site becomes stronger and more known in the community. You can do this through massive comments to other blogs and actively participating in forums. Most of all, you are invited to join blog communities in order to be known, such as Digg and StumbleUpon.

But we all know that link farming is already a thing of the past, and the only effective way by which we can benefit from links is by hooking up with the top-ranking blogs, otherwise your efforts will remain useless. You wouldn’t want that, right? Hence, if you are becoming desperate to make your site popular over your chosen niche, then you may as well opt to make great use of Digg and StumbleUpon, for they can certainly do great wonders for you. This scheme is called Digg begging.

Why Digg begging? If you are an active Digg user, you may be aware of the need to incur links through reader comments, votes and ratings. Digg and StumbleUpon are the places where most active bloggers and site owners hang out and promote their business by sharing and exchanging of information, news bits and simply advertising the items they have to offer. You can find the most important people in your niche here in these sites, hence you must get their vote onto your page.

Well, you can’t actually get their votes right away, hence, what you must do is yes, beg for them. The term begging wouldn’t go as far as kneeling to those people and ask for their commendations; rather you use a script that would generate votes onto your Digg entries. You can take the easy way out by using a script which you can add at the footer of your entry, and upon uploading your post, Digg and StumbleUpon will be alerted to boost up your site post’s ranking.

Here are the sample scripts you can use:

For PERL:

$sites{’stumbleupon’} = ‘Glad you stumbled upon us. Please leave us a nice review if you enjoy the site!’;
$sites{’digg.com’} = ‘Glad you found us on Digg. Please Digg up if you like!’;

if ($ENV{’HTTP_REFERER’} ne “”){
foreach $key (keys %sites) {
if($ENV{’HTTP_REFERER’} =~ /$sites{’$key’}/) {
print qq~~;
}
}
}

For PHP:

$sites[’stumbleupon’] = ‘Glad you stumbled upon us. Please leave us a nice review if you enjoy the site!’;
$sites[’digg.com’] = ‘Glad you found us on Digg. Please Digg up if you like!’;

if( !empty( $_SERVER[’HTTP_REFERER’] ) ) {
$data = parse_url( $_SERVER[’HTTP_REFERER’ ] );
foreach( $sites as $domain => $text ) {
if( strpos( strtolower( $data[’host’] ), $domain ) !== false ) {
echo ‘’;
break;
}
}
}
?>

For Javascript

To bloggers who are using Wordpress, you can also include this script on your blog’s footer so that Digg and StumbleUpon are reminded of your new post.

What you have just done? You have created a command that alerts Digg and StumbleUpon to immediately take notice of your new entry and boost it up in their rankings even if only a few people have checked them out yet. In this process, you get to cheat on the number of site views and votes to your entries, that way they become more popular over social network sites. Because of the increased (yet automated) rankings, you can get more incoming traffic since users would think that you have a truly reputable site.

By the use of Digg and StumbleUpon, you get to cheat on the search engines without bothering them that much, thus you are saved from all the search engine issues and problems commonly faced by other black hat SEO artists. Digg begging has even gained positive reviews among its users mainly because of its efficiency and effectiveness in producing results. Why not try this technique to enhance your rankings on search engines and gain more popularity over your niche? Who knows, this may be your ticket to success.

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