@Jeremy – Thank you for the clarification. People who bug for Diggs all the time is a pet peeve of mine.I’m not saying we shouldn’t help out, but in the blogosphere there’s a fine line between asking for helping and becoming a pain in the butt. As you already know I do think bonuses for bringing in traffic, good content, etc. is a good idea. I do wish more employers would do this.

1) we patently discourage this: the point is to encourage bloggers to get out “beyond their blog”. Some are simply too insular right now. Anyone who’s actually successful on any social media site (like Mixx, Reddit and, yeah, Digg) will tell you that the success comes from being PART of the community, not just submitting every post.

2) If folk took this to the extreme and wrote just for Digg, we’d notice, it’d get reflected in their quarterly review and we’d take a really hard look at the blog.

Ultimately we simply want bloggers to get outside their blog. The “Digg bonus” (as some have started to call it) actually applies to any social media site as well as to being featured on any big blog.

And the best way for both of those to happen is pretty simple: get involved, reach out, and write the best content possible.

(Glad to see you out in the blogosphere!)

I’ve gotten so I just try to write the most interesting articles I can write and forget about the portals. If I get lucky, I get lucky. I’m not a traffic whore.

I have seen a sharp rise in the Digg Lists, groups of people who vote just for the sake of voting each other up. Not fond of that.

But Digg traffic isn’t necessarily that valuable. I’m of the opinion the better plan is to encourage linkbacks, and the easiest way to start getting those is to start giving them.