Comments on: Skip Digg: Not All Traffic is Created Equal

By: Raleigh Fence Company

Raleigh Fence Company — Fri, 10 Apr 2009 02:38:51 +0000

Darren,
I couldn’t agree more. As a small fence contractor that also blogs to gain customers, Digg has nothing for me. I wasted countless hours with it and SU all for not. I can say that the bursts in traffic I got from Stumble must have helped my rankings, but not enough for the hours I spent on it. I could have been working on SEO, content, links, and networking which I would have gained much more from.

I don’t mess with Digg or Stumble anymore (very rarely), as I saw it wasting my time. Besides, how could a fence contractor writing about local fence industry issues ever make the front page of Digg anyway!

Keith

By: farouk

farouk — Sun, 22 Feb 2009 14:40:57 +0000

i strongly agree with you and i have always been saying the same, i believe reddit.com is even worse even though its as popular as digg

By: Celes | EmbraceLiving.Net

Celes | EmbraceLiving.Net — Sun, 21 Dec 2008 06:48:37 +0000

Hi Josh, thanks for fresh viewpoint! I just launched my personal development blog (EmbraceLiving.Net) and I’m actually considering whether Digg is really worth my time (Reddit is currently a better traffic generator for me). There are so many sites inside that it feels like a small fish in a big pond syndrome. Still, there seem to be site owners who swear by Digg, so I’ll continue to hang around and see how things go.

By: The Content Syndication Network

The Content Syndication Network — Tue, 09 Dec 2008 14:55:48 +0000

Hi one n’all … isn’t the internet just great eh! … I started out about 10 minutes ago from an email from Twitter which led me to exposedseo.com/ then to buzzblogger.com/ then from there to twitip.com/ then onto simpleology.com/ from there to here and I’ve just been blown away with such powerful free information pouring from all these pages a real proper WoW … all this info could have all been sold for lots of dollars … and deffo this blog page really has the wow factor such valuable info thanks a bunch Darren your the man cheers mate …

All my best to you and yours
Phillip Skinner

By: uwak

uwak — Fri, 28 Nov 2008 12:37:29 +0000

O’OW…..! .I am banned by digg…….

By: Josh Klein

Josh Klein — Wed, 26 Nov 2008 04:48:41 +0000

Ha, that is indeed ironic, though all of Darren’s posts have that, FYI :)

By: Ironic

Ironic — Sun, 16 Nov 2008 02:50:05 +0000

I did love your “Digg This” link at the bottom, LOL.

By: LEADSExplorer

LEADSExplorer — Sat, 15 Nov 2008 21:33:06 +0000

Our blog got bookmarked a few times on Digg, StumbleUpon and Propellor

First: Who
It is important who bookmarks you: there are leaders and there laggards.
Leader bring a lot of traffic. Laggerds hardly any one.
The problem is: once you get bookmarked by a laggard, the leaders can’t bookmark you: thus you miss traffic thanks to the laggard.

Second: You
If the blogwriter bookmarks, he sure wll be a laggard: thus hardly any followers.
Never ever bookmark yourself!

Third: Conversion
Although getting bookmarked generates a lot of traffic, very little is corparate or company traffic as most are residential Internet surfers.
Thus in case you are selling B2B (as we do) hardly any conversion will happen.

Fourth: Internet score
The best thing about getting bookmarked: your “Internet score” increases:
- the bookmark links count as value
- a higher ranking on Alexa.com
- a possible better SERP on Google, Yahoo, MSN Live!

Fith: Branding
Branding – all those visitors will read your post and that will increase your brand recognition.These residential Internet surfers do work and could remember and mention your brand one day.

By: paul

paul — Fri, 14 Nov 2008 11:46:48 +0000

I will never make it to the home page of Digg but I will still use it to submit articles.

By: a parent reason

a parent reason — Thu, 13 Nov 2008 14:07:07 +0000

Wow! This statement really hit home when I started to think about it. This is exactly what I do on digg. It’s entertainment no different than watching primetime television to take a break from the chaos of life.

Digg’s mission is to be distracting. People use Digg as a sanctuary, to be bounced from page to page as a momentary respite from their day jobs as knowledge workers.

By: bourgy

bourgy — Wed, 12 Nov 2008 15:58:54 +0000

Well, we’ve always known ‘DIGGers’ aren’t the best resource money-wise but the link itself will always have value and some bloggers need to see that little bit of traffic as motivation to continue.

By: Zliggo

Zliggo — Wed, 12 Nov 2008 08:19:30 +0000

I am still using Digg now and still get traffic from it but I guess it not really good. Thanks for the article

By: uwak

uwak — Tue, 11 Nov 2008 08:20:03 +0000

I like read your articles , good evaluation using digg…..with plus and minus…..

By: BloggerTests

BloggerTests — Tue, 11 Nov 2008 06:40:58 +0000

Based on my experience, I have similar opinion on stumble upon, sure from time to time I get traffic surges that last for two days with no visible lasting effect at all
I’m not sure what all the hype is about.

Good post!

By: Mel T

Mel T — Tue, 11 Nov 2008 05:18:17 +0000

I’ve tried Digg a few times, and made a real effort to create something ‘diggable’, but I’ve failed every time.

I’ve seen two of my posts on the first page of ‘upcoming’ with plenty of time and sufficient diggs to make it to the FP, and both times I’ve been buried!!

Digg can be really annoying!!

By: pay per click expert

pay per click expert — Tue, 11 Nov 2008 05:09:30 +0000

The only thing that matters in traffic is conversion. Bookmarking it to easy accessible bookmarking but very credible sites is a great investment.

By: Sueblimely

Sueblimely — Tue, 11 Nov 2008 02:57:51 +0000

I gave up on Digg a while ago but stick with StumbleUpon because of the social network I have developed on there; a network that feeds me more of the topics that interest me enough to want to stumble. It also brings me some traffic. Digg became a chore and it did not bring traffic. This is maybe because I did not put the time and effort into it but the motivation was not there to do so.

By: syringa28

syringa28 — Tue, 11 Nov 2008 02:00:12 +0000

I thought by digging, we could increase the PR of the website because it will drive more traffic to our website. But, I’m still new about Digg and don’t have any idea about it.

By: Bruce Simmons (brusimm)

Bruce Simmons (brusimm) — Mon, 10 Nov 2008 20:37:34 +0000

Never submit your own stuff to stumble or digg.

Once a reader does, you can support the link / digg / stumble, but not before.

-Bruce

By: Tschai

Tschai — Mon, 10 Nov 2008 20:33:35 +0000

For a lill’ and humble blog like mine,Aytemir.com, any traffic is welcome.
And from SU (and even Digg) I still get traffic after days and weeks.

It’s a start and you just might hit the right buttons or one might just do that for you…

It only takes 10 minutes to digg your own post and you do get some traffic: that’s the power of digg for small blogs!