Digg Funnels and Made-for-Digg Sites

Cameron Olthius recently Knuttz is basically a blog that shows clever photographs and interestingly enough, has had 14 stories hit the front page of digg in about the past two weeks. Alister speculates whether Knuttz might be gaming digg or not and makes some interesting observations. Knuttz creates a "digg funnel" by adding a solicitation from each photo detail page to a specific page which has the familiar digg vote badge on it. You don't really see any digg badge anywhere on the site until you get funneled to the "focus" page. All the photo detail pages link to the "focus" page, which is in contrast to what most blogs do when they place the digg badge on every blog post. That dilutes the voting. The digg funnel drives traffic to one focus page with a digg badge on it. This focuses any voting to one particular "story". Except it's not a story, it's just a clever photo. The observations Alister makes are pretty interesting for those who are interested in seeing how sites are suddenly benefiting from digg traffic in a big way. TopRank Online Marketing, specializing in organic SEO, blog marketing and online public relations. He's been cited as a search marketing expert by publications including U.S. News & World Report and The Economist and has implemented successful search marketing programs with top BtoB companies of all sizes. Odden shares his marketing expertise at