Digg Help
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Alright, so maybe I’m dumb for asking, but I’ve got a free wordpress.com blog, and I’m trying to add a “Digg This” button. I’m looking to create a tag in a text editor that I can copy and paste into each post, so I guess an tag. Is it even possible to do this? I know how to link to digg’s homesite, but can I even make a 1-click button to dig a post without plugins or java? Thanks so much in advance.
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Not really. You can add in the link manually after you publish it once you get the URL for the post but there’s no built in support.
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Actually, the statement isn’t 100% correct.
From my experience, you need to:
1) Manually create the story on Digg OR follow these steps to create a link (to be posted into your blog article) that will allow a visitor to submit your story (http://digg.com/tools/integrate)
2) Once you have the story link on Digg.com, you need to edit your article to manually create a link to the Digg story, which will allow people to vote (http://digg.com/tools/buttons)
3) Hope people click that link, sign in, and vote.
WHAT YOU CAN’T DO, to my knowledge is:
4) Follow the directions on this page (http://digg.com/tools/count) that show your Digg rating and automatically allows Digg users to vote for your story.
The reason is because the code you must insert into your article is nested between <script></script> tags. If you try to publish the scripting code, you just get a jumble of text appearing in your article rather than the desired logo counter.
Has anyone figured out how to get around this?
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It’s not a good idea to put a “digg this” button on all your posts anyways, since that usually leads to getting a lot of posts with only 1-10 votes that quite often get marked as spam which leads to your site being banned.
Read this: http://themulife.com/?p=554
What I do is I only put a big Digg button on posts that I think have a good shot of making the front page of Digg… realistically that is less than one post a month.
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Can’t disagree there, however, I’m still not sure how you show your Digg counter within a free WordPress blog. You definitely should NOT submit every story to Digg (or have someone else to do it).
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You can’t show the counter, because the counter uses javascript.
You can, however, have a big button that says “Digg This!”
example:
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