Many people may not be aware of this, but blogs such as this one and many others rely on numerous ways of spreading word of their existence. One of the most widely used tools to expand a blogs reader base is something known as digging. Digging is where a reader clicks or navigates in someway to the digg site and submits the story. You may even notice up on the right hand corner of this very post a little number with digg it! underneath. What this little number represents is how many people have submitted the story to the digg site, and the more people who have submitted it generally can give you an idea of how popular an article is. This is an important barometer of how popular a particular blog or subject might be, and it also spreads the word of a particular blog or articles existence.

So now that you know what Digg is, I am going to take you through a step by step course on how to use digg. For those of you who already use digg, you may find this part some what redundant, however for those of you who have not used digg it is my genuine hope that you will begin to do so.

The first thing you will need to do is register. So please open up a new window in your web browser and type in www.digg.com. Once you get there you will see this:

Now simply click on the Join Digg and follow the instructions. Once you have finished your registration, come back to this post.

Now Find the picture up in the right hand that looks like this:

Now that you have found it, be prepared to be directed away from this page and remember to come back! Now click it (go ahead it won’t hurt you or your computer I promise).

Back? Good, now if you were the first person to digg this post then you were probably asked to provide a brief description and give it a category, then at the end you were asked to prove you were human and more than likely after that you had to be told the story was similar to another one. I hoped you went ahead and submitted it. For those of you who were not the first to click on the digg it symbol you now know what it is like to be the first!

Now that you have done that, comes perhaps the hardest and most difficult step in digging. Relaxing and going on to the next post. Thank you for taking the time to not only read this post, but to digg it as well. Believe it or not, we all really do appreciate it when someone takes the time to digg us, it lets us know that someone cared enough to share the story with other people.