SEO Case Study - Anatomy of a Super Digg
Submitted by Jeremy Palmer on Sat, 02/24/2007 - 20:14.
When it comes to SEO content is king... even if the content isn't related to your main site:
From SEOMoz - Anatomy of a Super Digg
http://www.seomoz.org/blog/anatomy-of-a-super-digg
This is a great read for anybody interested in leveraging Digg and other social bookmarking sites to improve their position in the SERPs.
Best,
Jeremy
SEO Case Study - Anatomy of a Super Digg
Interesting - although the massive spike in traffic was short-lived I would imagine that the huge increase in backlinks would be the main long term benefit. It may send a red flag to Google though if your number of backlinks increase so dramatically almost overnight (they may think you have embarked on a big text link buying spree).
Interestingly, a search on the article title in quotes returned a whopping 64,500 results:
http://www.google.co.uk/search?hl=en&client=firefox-a&rls=org.mozilla%3Aen-GB%3Aofficial&hs=61t&q=%228+Diseases+That+Give+You+Superhuman+Powers%22