Algorithms & Digg titles, say what?
Feelings and emotions are mixed when topics shift to the real value of Digg. Feel free to use our comments to share your own feelings. However, regardless of how you do feel towards the service, the truth is that any link that makes it to the Popular page guarantees a website incredible waves of traffic. Whether or not this type of hit-n-run traffic is of any value is for you to decide.
Everyone knows that one of the strongest assets a blog post or Digg entry has is its title. Read a captivating or enticing title, you automatically let curiousness get the best of you and you click-through. Read a boring, mundane, no effort title… You could care less about whatever it is is being linked.
So how do you hone your title writing skills? Do you study the submission patterns on Digg? Do you interpret what posts received the most clicks on your own blog based on the attitude conveyed through the title? Or, do you plug your fascinating / pathetic title into an application which generates a title using fancy algorithms?
Is this taking the allure of Digg too far? A standalone application which tests the changes of your submission title making it to the front page? Has a tiny application managed to factor in the natural inquisitive nature of the general Digg user accurately enough to compute the likelihood of your post gaining popularity? You decide.
