How to add Digg in wordpress 2.5 compatible mode via Sociable plugin
April 12, 2008 by dragon
Digg emerged two years ago as an alternative where readers post links to stories from other Web sites that they think are newsworthy. The users hit a "digg" button if they like it or a "bury it" button if they don't like it. The most popular stories appear on the front page. Users are encouraged to comment on stories, and they can give comments a "thumbs up" or "thumbs down."
Usually, tech savvy geeks can edit their php in wordpress and insert these digg codes by themselves. However, some people prefer the easier way, via wordpress plugin. It's good that there is this plugin called sociable, with wordpress page at this link for download. Current Sociable Version 2.6.2 is last updated 3-31-2008, and is compatible with wordpress 2.2 to 2.5
Other so-called social networking site links like digg that is included in plugin Sociable: del.icio.us, facebook, mixx, google, sphinn, stumbleupon, technocrati and many more. And all these are compatible with the latest Wordpress 2.5.
The egalitarian nature of these aggregation sites has led a number of online publications, including CNET News.com, to add "Digg" and "Delicious" buttons that allow their own readers to recommend their stories to other users of the aggregation sites.
So it shouldn't be a surprise that marketers and spammers are a half-step behind. Since popular stories on Digg get linked to by blogs and other sites, marketers are doing everything they can to get content from their sites featured on Digg. The more links back to a Web site, the more it rises in search engine rankings and thus the more money that site can make.
Some marketers offer "content generation services," where they sell stories to Web sites for the sole purpose of getting them submitted to Digg and other sites. This combination of spam and blogs is called "splogs." The stories often feature topics and keywords in headlines that are likely to appeal to the Digg crowd, such as "geeks" and "Apple."
Lazier but still tricky marketers merely scrape content off legitimate sites to put up on their own sites in a technique called "link jacking." In essence, they are hijacking the links that should go back to the original site, experts say.
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