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Digg This: How to Make Ethically make Money Using www.Digg.com

While I have to confess that I do still have a day job, I've eased my money worries a good bit by earning extra cash online. One of the best ways to do this is by using the online article promotion site ww.digg.com. Here's how you do it ethically, unlike the first version of this article, which has, thankfully, been replaced. Thanks Leapfroggers.

First, get hooked up with www.helium.com. That's where this article is posted. All you need to join is a working email address. Just click the "join" on their homepage and follow the instructions. It only takes a minute and it's free.

Once you are a member of Helium, they will pay you per person that visits articles that you post online, articles like this one. They say they will pay you between one and three cents per visit. I've never made more than one. There is a little money to be made just posting stuff and leaving it float out there. They keyword your postings so websites can pick them up. The most I've made in a month on a single posting this way is about a dollar. Most don't fare that well. Anytime you have over $25 in your account, you can request a payment from Helium into your Paypal account. Once a month, on the first Friday of the month, Helium makes the requested transfers into Paypal. I've never had a problem with them doing this. They seem very timely.

Clearly, unless you plan to submit a dozen articles a day, you'll never make much money waiting for Helium to promote your article so you have to do it yourself. Here's where Digg comes in. Digg is a reference tool where anyone with an email address can log in and recommend a website, in this case the web address of your article. If other viewers like the site they'll "diggit" thereby recommending it to other readers. This is good for your article at Helium because every person who clicks on your page makes you a penny.

Just posting to www.digg.com seems to be worth about 40 to 80 visits whether anyone likes your article or not. If they don't like it, they can "bury" it. Too many buries and your article disappears off the site. (Happened to the first version of this article.) This means you need some quality. If they like it and it starts to get diggs, something miraculous occurs. Other people see the number of diggs your article has and say "wow, I wonder why that article has so many diggs." They go to your site, make you a penny and increase the odds that your article will get yet another digg.

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