Comments on: Is Digg Traffic All its Cracked up to Be?

By: Bangkok Lawyer

Bangkok Lawyer — Sun, 28 Dec 2008 16:53:28 +0000

I’m currently developing a blog and was going to add digg button, but no I don’t know if its worth it. Isn’t all traffic good traffic at the end of the day.

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By: My Wrong Side

My Wrong Side — Thu, 28 Dec 2006 18:59:17 +0000

I haven’t yet implemented it but I was thinking about adding Digg links to my posts. Thanks for the information.

By: Bastiaan

Bastiaan — Thu, 28 Dec 2006 14:56:57 +0000

By the way, Nate referred to digghelper.com (a few comments up). I’m sorry to say that it doesn’t exist anymore.

By: Bastiaan

Bastiaan — Thu, 28 Dec 2006 14:48:30 +0000

One of my posts is on digg but didn’t land on the frontpage (not even near). The effect surprised me big time. A huge traffic spike and we sold three T-shirst to people who came in through digg. Conclusion: even if you are not on the frontpage there will be a digg effect.
Here is the post: http://www.saltwatermonkey.com/Blog/BlogEntry.aspx?blogentry_id=95
It is about a digg like site for T-shirts.

By: Blog Merchant Accounts

Blog Merchant Accounts — Thu, 19 Oct 2006 17:16:35 +0000

Darren what are you thinking now about Digg?

By: Nate

Nate — Mon, 25 Sep 2006 21:46:49 +0000

There’s a site out there called DiggHelper.com that helps promote your digg articles if you’re looking to generate more traffic from digg. It’s main purpose is to help businesses who use digg.com to promote themselves.

http://digghelper.com

By: Understanding digg again, natural order at twopointouch: web 2.0, blogs and social media

Sat, 26 Aug 2006 16:27:22 +0000

[...] In many respects, it simply doesn’t matter, though. Being featured on digg is a very temporary boost to ratings that won’t add much to your bottom line. People looking for interesting new articles and sites do not become regular readers, by and large. The difficulty, I suppose, is the position of digg among technology news sites… [...]

By: bernard

bernard — Tue, 18 Jul 2006 13:51:27 +0000

I made it on the frontpage of digg and a couple of others, it resulted in 15.000 extra visitors in 30 hours and almost crashed our servers. Revenue went up high but not as much as I expected though.

And it made me get as high in ranking on Alexa as NME.com, so I guess Alexa does take digg traffic into account.

For the rest I still get a few 100 of visitors per week from those digg stories, so it does create some traffic afterwards, not that many stay long, especially when you get dug for a story that does not reflect your blog. Obvious.

By: Paul -V-

Paul -V- — Thu, 30 Mar 2006 05:00:31 +0000

Here’s an interesting article from Blake Schwendiman’s blog about Digg vs Reddit.

http://www.blakeschwendiman.com/blook/2006/03/because_you_asked.html

Speaking as someone who has been on the Reddit front page several times, I can say that Reddit traffic is very good. After I get hit by Reddit, I notice solid growth afterwards.

By: Rahul

Rahul — Fri, 17 Feb 2006 10:08:17 +0000

I will increase traffuce, nice job..

rahul

By: Nathan

Nathan — Thu, 10 Nov 2005 00:49:03 +0000

But you have to understand that digg is currently aimed solely at technology news, so for your site to even have a chance of making it to the front page it needs to be something new, exciting and in most cases tech-related. So assuming your site is tech-related and it makes it to the front page, most users which are directed to your site from digg will have interests in what your site has to offer (be it a product, service, news or entertainment). So I’d say Digg is a very good advertising medium for traffic increases if you manage to make the front page and bring in targetted traffic.

By: Davak

Davak — Wed, 09 Nov 2005 23:42:40 +0000

Manual trackback and follow-up:

What? Meme Engines Aren’t Worth the Traffic?

http://www.tech-recipes.com/blog221.php

By: IO ERROR

IO ERROR — Wed, 09 Nov 2005 21:57:14 +0000

I’ve been slashdotted once before. It definitely doesn’t bring a large increase in revenue, and the CTR across ad programs seems to hover around 0.5% for that particular group where I’ve been able to segment them out. Since my usual CTR is far, far higher than that, I don’t really care about slashdot, in terms of generating revenue. I do care in terms of generating exposure for my site, inbound links, and maybe a few additional readers.

By: Tom Hanna - Financial Options

Tom Hanna - Financial Options — Wed, 09 Nov 2005 21:15:31 +0000

I got a site blogrolled by a couple of people because of a digg post that didn’t make the front page. In fact, you might be better off with the posts that get a smaller traffic than those front page server crashers. The issue is not always the immediate effect, but the cumulative one. An extra link from being dugg today, an extra link from a carnival tomorrow, an extra link from a mention on ProBlogger the day after that…I’d take one new link a day for a month over a slashdotting or Instalanche any day.

By: Jennifer Apple

Jennifer Apple — Wed, 09 Nov 2005 19:35:58 +0000

Here’s a spike we got from digg (1st week of October):
http://www.alexa.com/data/details/traffic_details?q=&url=http://www.photoshopsupport.com/
It was from a link to a tutorial I wrote a year ago. You never know what’s going to catch someone’s attention. Another reason to focus on “content” above all else.

By: vivek

vivek — Wed, 09 Nov 2005 19:32:41 +0000

It depends. Way back in 2002 -2003, I use to work for Linux training and consultancy firm. In order to increase our popularity for site we started to put Linux article and guides on line and we got slashdotted couple times. Though site never put any third party ads as result of slashdot we sold more services and got high ranking in google.

By: Jennifer Grucza

Jennifer Grucza — Wed, 09 Nov 2005 18:03:26 +0000

I had a nice little experience with digg when my post Google Maps as Art got dugg. It got 577 diggs and was on the front page for a while. Maybe not a high percentage of digg users click ads, but I definitely got more clicks for two days afterwards as a result of the higher traffic. I got several comments (all nice), and several sites linking to me, including some del.icio.us links. However, I would say that probably hardly any of the visitors were converted to regular readers. Though I'm not really surprised, since mine is just a personal site without a single specific focus.

By: Steve Pavlina

Steve Pavlina — Wed, 09 Nov 2005 17:18:09 +0000

My site has been digged several times and farked once. One of my posts received over 1000 diggs. Overall I agree with these observations about such traffic. Even though it generates a low CTR for ads, it doesn’t generate a nonzero CTR, so there is a small revenue boost, but it’s nothing to get excited about.

Fark produced the greatest traffic spike, but it seemed to bring a surge of very juvenile visitors. In my case the article that got farked was called, “How to Give Up Coffee.” You can see the end result here if you care to. There are 70 comments listed, but many of them had to be deleted for excessive profanity and such:
http://www.stevepavlina.com/blog/2005/05/how-to-give-up-coffee/

I do, however, disagree with point #2. If you check my Alexa stats page, you’ll see strong spikes where I got digged and farked (fark was the first big spike at the end of May 2005, digg produced the next three spikes):
http://www.alexa.com/data/details/traffic_details?&range=1y&size=medium&compare_sites=&y=r&url=www.stevepavlina.com#top

By: DJMonsterMo

DJMonsterMo — Wed, 09 Nov 2005 17:16:37 +0000

Interesting. The times I got linked by MetaFilter, my CTR and CPM actually increased by an order of magnitude greater than my site traffic. Kind of a weird effect. Anyway, here’s a link showing ust how fast digg is catching up to slashdot:
http://www.alexa.com/data/details/traffic_details?&range=1y&size=large&compare_sites=slashdot.org&y=t&url=digg.com