The new Digg offers the opportunity to import your blogs RSS feed and immediately that has an increased benefit over manually submitting every new article you published in the past.

Looking beyond that and from an SEO perspective what advantages does this give me?

Well after verifying my RSS feed in the last post I went straight to the SERP`s to see if the post ranked, sure enough it did in a few seconds, it was not about the keywords I was trying to rank for, it was simply to have the feed verified first.

At first I thought yep that`s it set and forget and continue to push articles and Digg will pick them up, Simple.

Then an afterthought, OK if Digg are picking up my latest posts that obviously gives them a steady flow of fresh links and a snippet of text from the article, a quick and easy user generated content win, but what does this give me in return other than the obvious link back?

Well all of those link metric tools you use, the ones that give a more authoratitive edge if your link gets picked up in Digg, Delicious and the like, well surely the increase in backlinks alone will tilt inyour favour simply because of the verified RSS feed.

So the mass increase of UGC for Digg and the increased backlinks are surely a win win situation?

Other than that you are still getting eyes in front of your content  which is what it was all about anyway and with the new social interaction Digg has put in place this can not be a bad thing because that will naturally lead to more editorial links, yeah those juicy “in content links”.

Lets see how the referrals pan out over time and I will revisit this post and let you know.