All those who have succesfully gotten articles published on Slashdot please tell me your story and tips. How long was the article, what was it about, how long did it take to get approved and published? Can you post the link? If your article gets approved do they let you know where and when it will be published? If it doesn't get approved do they let you know? How much effect did it have on traffic to your site? Does the link from Slashdot to your site remain forever? Thanks
You run komar.org? That's awesome - I remember when you got slashdotted - I was one of the many visitors. I still check occasionally to see what else you have posted....
Roman1's site got slashdotted yesterday. I advertise on the page that was put on there. I had 30,000 visitors to the site (in comparison to the normal 1000 or so). I can only imagine how many roman got.
One of my pages (the world's first banner ad) made slashdot at 11 AM yesterday. During the first hour I recieved about 10 uniques/second. Overall for the day I had 135K uniques. (My average is 2 - 3K). So far today (9am here) I'm at 8K and counting even though my link is now on page 3 or 4 of slashdot. I did get is contact with my host and they were watching the server my site is on carefully, but I managed to make it through the peak hour(s) without my site shutting down or signifacantly slowing down. The article (hxxp://thelongestlistofthelongeststuffatthelongestdomainnameatlonglast.com/first66.html) is about 100 words, not much and was posted to slashdot by someone else anad I had no clue or warning what was going on. As a side note the banner is linked to a fellow members site and delivered about 25K uniques. (Amazing no? a banner with a 25% CTR)
Yea, I'm the "Alek" standing next to my wife Wendy as we hold our kids upside down on the main page of www.komar.org. Glad you like the website - I try to make it both entertaining and informative - wish I had more time to futz with it as I have tons of fun ideas/things I'd like to do. And if not obvious to folks (it's no super-secret), I'm behind the V-E for celiac charity site too. P.S. Jim pointed out that I had 998 posts at DP and should post somethng special for post #1000 - I hadn't really thought about it yet ... but talking about my family (and passion to find a cure for Celiac which is something my kids have) is probably the best thing I could do for post #1000.
so the negative effects of getting posted on the homepage of slashdot is that your site can crash. How can you prevent that if you are using a shared hosting company?
shirsc2: this is more of a generic problem, although the flashy /. traffic can be a major stress test. Static stuff isn't that hard (if you have a decent host and don't have huge images/video's) ... but dynamic content is a real challenge (especially if it's real-time like mine was which is really hard to load balance) ... so you just have to try to code efficiently. If it's a one-time event, just let it die (or move stuff off for the few hours you will be hammered) ... otherwise, you need to commit time/resources to handle high loads. Roman1: Congrats on getting the fire-hose treatment ... for those interested, here's the Slashdot article ... and as always, the comments were ...entertaining! ;-)
My only concern is that Slashdot readers aren't ad-clickers! Now if you could get on Business Weekly or something like that....
I have to admit, I don't really enjoy Slashdot traffic. I've never posted an article about my own site, but I always fill out their URL field (so that readers can click my name to go to my homepage). I've had 3 or 4 articles accepted -- 2 on the main page, and 2 (I think) on the "Ask Slashdot" subpage. The main article I post about surely gets tens of thousands of clicks. My little homepage link usually gets a few hundred, tops. It's creepy. They don't click ads, as you say. But they also skip right over the content and head straight to the "About" section. They're IT hounds, so they always track down my resume, and try to locate my address, email, phone, etc. They also have no compunction about "testing" your site's security. The creepiest was not from a big article I posted, but from a big comment I posted, in response to someone else's article. I disagreed with one of the main points, and provided a rebuttal. This sent one reader right over the bend, and within 5 minutes of him posting an irate rant, I saw him cruise into my site, head right for the resume, and then hunt around for other personal info. I freaked out a little, wondering if some nutjob with a gun was going to knock on my door. Luckily, I think I didn't have any personal info available. I think. -Tony
I don't know how you can even get a story accepted on Slashdot, I have submitted two tech stories and so far all either got was ' Rejected '.........
Here's an analysis of DIGG vs. Shoutwire that is kinda interesting ... says aggregrate shoutwire==DIGG ... my experience suggests otherwise, but both are growing.
I'd think the main bonus of a digg or slashdot posting would be (in theory) other webmasters blogging about your site or linking to it and thus helping your LP a little over the long run. I was reading some slashdot comments the other day, and way too many posters post like they are internet gods and control the world. Pretty arrogant.
Do they accept for instance posts about new online stores having some funny/original presents/gifts for instance? (slashdot)
This was in 2004, so my details might be wrong.. but it was a relatively short review of a beta game with a few screenshots. This was the first story on a site I owned that I submitted to slashdot (I had been an avid reader since 98 or 99.) The link brought in about 50,000 uniques and you wouldn't believe me if I told you how much money I directly made from it (enough to buy a soda.) However, I strongly suspect that the link helped me get that site to a point where it still makes me thousands of dollars a year.
I got to the front page of shoutwire last week and got 3000 visits in a few hours. Getting to the front page seems to be related to the amount of comments your post gets as well as the shouts. After a few hours I got banned so I don't know the total number of hits I would have got.