How can you compare Squidoo and Digg with Article Directories?

First, let me tell you about what each term is all about.

Squidoo: This is a social media website wherein you can write a topic on anything that you are interested in. It may be a blog, a video clipping, music or for that matter a topic that is close to your heart. This is possible through building your lens. What is Lens? Lens is nothing but, a web page allotted to you by squidoo that can link to your blogs, photos, music links, video clippings and a lot many other things. You might be thinking what is in there for me? This is quite beneficial in many ways.

1. You can share your knowledge with others.
2. Increase your website traffic.
3. Adds to your creditability.
4. Adds to your website visibility, thereby creating a win win situation.

Digg:  Digg is a community-based popularity social media website with an emphasis on technology and science articles, politics and entertainment. It combines social bookmarking, blogging, and syndication with a form of non-hierarchical, democratic editorial control.

News, stories and websites are submitted by users, and then promoted to the front page through a user-based ranking system. Here, one can submit his own story which should be fresh in the related category.  More the number of clicks (or diggs) on that story, means more popular your story becomes (means more traffic) and reaches at a higher rank in digg. Thereby, you can make it a favorite article published once you have received a good number of diggs. This differs from the hierarchical editorial system that many other news sites employ.

Article directory: This is a web directory wherein you can submit your articles, topics of your interest for sharing your knowledge with others. This is quite helpful in increasing your website traffic.

The difference between squidoo, digg and other article directories is:
An article that you write and submit in an article directory is not restricted to your website alone or for that matter to only 1 article directory. It can be submitted to 100's and 1000's of other article directories for generating more website traffic, broader publicity.

The site map is one branch of your sites link popularity river and it has value, but it will nevër have the same impact as a well thought out and implemented links structure that makes use of all the rivers of link popularity within your site.

To make the most use of the link popularity of your site, you should try and setup your sites navigational structure so that even without a site map, the search engines and visitors are STILL able to reach any page on your site within 2-3 clicks.

So...to make a long story short...Always be sure to utilize true, standard hyperlinks throughout your site and be sure that your sites navigational structure allows any page of your site to be reached within no more than 3 clicks. See you at the top!

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