Indian Digging
I’m pretty busy working on some code, hence the minimal posting. But I was thinking last night about getting a power user digg account without actually having to go and interact with the community because that is horrendously boring. Indians are pretty cheap right 
. I wonder how much it would cost to get them to build you a power user account on a social bookmarking site. Just layout a plan to follow every day listing how many hours to do each task for and then pay them by the hour.
Anybody done this? Is it economically sound? You’ll be paying for an asset (or a liability depending on if it works 
), the account, that you can use more than once unlike when you purchase diggs.
June 24th, 2008 at 6:29 am
Occasionally you see projects posted for “social networking profile building” on the freelancing sites.
Thing is you need someone half decent to build the network. Put it out to India and what you will get is:
“we are highly experienced in SEO and web designing company who can do this work to meet your highest expectation and satisfaction”
dropping stupid mis spelled comments everywhere.
However, you can probably get someone with a good profile to digg you on the same freelancing sites… but that will cost £x a pop. Have seen these services advertised for MySpace spam mail shots but not for Digg.
June 24th, 2008 at 6:56 am
I’m just throwing ideas around really. To be honest I thought Digg mostly consisted of mispelled, pointless comments
. I will never understand the digg crowd.
June 24th, 2008 at 12:01 pm
Pics or it didn’t happen [digg this] [bury this]
June 24th, 2008 at 1:00 pm
Mark, you make less and less sense with every comment
June 25th, 2008 at 6:48 am
It’s a diggnism.
June 25th, 2008 at 8:14 pm
Harry and Mark u guys are funny.Anyways nice blog.Keep it up:)
June 25th, 2008 at 8:34 pm
Unless you’re working in certain niches, Digg traffic doesn’t convert well at all. Sure, you’ll get 50-200K UVs in a few days, but that kind of traffic doesn’t last very long and most visitors spend all of 10 seconds on your site. I guess it might be effective for a quick SEO, natural link building boost, but unless you’re selling something right up the average Digg users’ alley, it seems like a waste of time.
June 26th, 2008 at 4:38 am
@blackhatzen
I was purely thinking of digg as a place to promote hype bordering on hoax marketing. Mostly for ideas that will capture attention and cause people to link their friends.
@ Photobuch
Mark started it.
June 26th, 2008 at 12:57 pm
digg is great source for traffic if you have good content, I have outsourced work to india and I have found it to be a headache. to me… not worth my time we do 100% of seo and networking inhouse and we get better results that way.
but good luck if you do decide to go with india.
July 1st, 2008 at 6:07 am
Indians are doing lot more better then ever. It is good to see.
July 2nd, 2008 at 6:56 am
Thing is you need someone half decent to build the network
i agree Harry and Mark u guys are funny.Anyways nice blog.Keep it up:)
July 10th, 2008 at 5:19 pm
So, tried outsourcing such a project yet? Indian is awesomely viable from an ecomonics point of view, but for Digg? LMAO, never even crossed my mined before.
People cry about how crap India or any other Asian country is for outsourcing. However, you are SPOT ON to pin point Indian for this tech savvy industry, however, you have to have very clear processes, quality assurance guidelines and be prepared to put time in with them to start with.
Just like any other project I run, it doesn’t matter if it is in our local office, or on distant shores - if it fucks up, it’s you to blame - Prior planning and prep, you’ll always kick ass with India!
John.
PS; I am neither an Indian, or an affiliate of India outsourcing, I base my opinion solely on past experience, fuck ups and these days by and large, great results.
August 22nd, 2008 at 1:44 pm
@bluesendseo
I am not agree with you. I have tried various Indian companies and I found them very sincere and more talented.