An interesting post from Cristian Mezei, on how to come to the attention of one small corner of the social media. A précis of his Digg tips below…

What will get you a frontpage:

1. The rapidity of the votes. If you get 40-50 votes (no matter what users digg) in the first 30 minutes, you’re probably on the frontpage. If you get 60-70 in the first 18 hours, you’re probably still on the frontpage. If you don’t get at least 60 votes in the first 24 hours, you’re nowhere.

2. The rank of the users that vote the article. The higher it is on the top list, the better (enter the user’s profile, and rank will be shown).

3. The number of comments, and the positive diggs that each article receives. If you have 30 comments, and 20 are rated below -4, you’ll probably not make it to the frontpage.

4. The number of buries your story gets. You can get buried whilst being in the upcoming section, or whilst being on the frontpage. So if you story is in the upcoming section and receives 3 buries, it might get buried. But if it’s on the frontpage with 1,000 Diggs, it will take more than 10-15 buries for it to disappear.

5. The submitted / promoted stories ratio of the users that vote. If 12-14 users with at least a 70% ratio, vote your article, you can make the frontpage much easier. You can find this ratio in any user’s profile.

6. You can add a maximum of 4 friends per hour (for spam reasons, and way to go Digg). You can add as many as you would like, and hope that they will add you too, so you will be mutual friends.

7. If you have a LOT of friends (50-100 or more) you will need 2X or 3X as many diggs as a new user, to reach the frontpage. So if you are a very new user with no friends, you can still get to the frontpage with 30-40 diggs.