{"id":187,"date":"2007-01-13T22:38:00","date_gmt":"2007-01-13T21:38:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.cornwallseo.com\/search\/index.php\/2007\/01\/13\/do-we-need-5-seo-digg-clones\/"},"modified":"2016-11-11T10:47:59","modified_gmt":"2016-11-11T10:47:59","slug":"do-we-need-5-seo-digg-clones","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cornwallseo.com\/search\/do-we-need-5-seo-digg-clones\/","title":{"rendered":"Do we need 5 SEO Digg clones?"},"content":{"rendered":"

For those who don’t know, you can start a Digg clone<\/a> in about 30 mins using open source sofware called Pligg<\/a>. Now I know they are not exact Digg clones, I call them that because there is not a better term for them and it’s the quickest way for people to understand what they are. Signs and signifiers people.<\/p>\n

Because it’s so easy to set up they are erupting like boils on a 13 year old teenage sugar fiend. So far I have found 5 Pliggs based on search or SEO.<\/p>\n

Only John Battelle’s Pligg seems to be attached to a current community and has sent me quite a bit of traffic, although John Battelle’s Search mob is not strictly seo rather it deals with the whole subject of search. The other four are all great, but the problem is community or lack of.
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\nReaching a critical mass for these sites is a real issue. I think the one that will race ahead is the one who is able to put together a community and create rabid, fanatical fans. Like Videosift a hard core of submitters and voters needs to be put together.<\/p>\n

So how could they do this?<\/p>\n