Most popular niches for Digg linkbait...

[DaveEMG]

Hey folks...

I'm not normally the type to post up about Digg (and no this isn't a plug for a digg ring or anything like that). Just wondering... what's the most popular niches for digg-worthy stories...

Seems like anything having to do with:

-- Apple (especially *exclusive* pics of new products... jeesh)
-- Bush-bashing / Republican Bashing
-- Digg user fluff (aka "Digg is great because: (a) crashed the interwebs (b) digg users aren't fat or anything (c) digg is awesome because chuck norris lets it be)
-- Microsoft-bashing, or really anything that makes the open source dev community swoon.
-- Cool pictures of animals / unique places / strange things...

Feel free to add away at this list.

One thing that DOESNT seem like it gets a lot of front page play anymore are things like "here's my earnings for the month" checks (that was soooo 2006) and "how to get rich" crap like you see on a lot of ebook spamblogs.

Anyways, comment away or not. Just something to think about next time your swirling up linkbait.

If I were any of you - I'd spend a couple hours slapping together some clean photochops of iPods and iPhones and put them up as *Next Gen apple products leaked photos!" Ha ha.

 

[DaveEMG]

Oh yeah, and anything that has to do with Chinese censorship. The diggers love to hate the chinese.

 

[barman]

Digg pretty much shit on SEO's. Ron Paul shit works well haha

 

[Nemesis]

Wii, they fuckin' love wii, they even use that shitty joystick as dildo. That's so fucking wrong.

And they love fat people, when you write an article about non-fat people, you'll get ten times more diggs if you call the person skeleton.

 

[krazyjosh5]

Google! Im surprised its not on there already.

 

[sampunk]

rich people doing retard thing (like that girl cry for wrong color of her car, wife crash muscle car)

or yea, anything that prove women shouldn't be driving too

 

[GeorgeA]

Also, talking about Ubuntu can get your article on the first page pretty much like an article about whatever iShit . (That would be included in the entry about open-source -which digg users love- but thought that being specific helps ).

Also , cheatsheets seem popular (css,mysql,..) and also articles about breath taking CSS designs.

 

[DaveEMG]

Do "breathtaking CSS designs" really get front page anymore? I thought as digg got a little more mainstream those articles kinda fell off.

 

[$5 Submissions]

New gadgets or weird takes on otherwise standard issues.

 

[JeremiaSK8]

Diggers love bittorrent, wordpress and shit like that.