Ok so every time I check General Marketing forum I'm looking to find information on how to get mega traffic as fast as possible for free i.e. The Holy Grail of Traffic or something to that effect. Now naturally enough I'm constantly disappointed to see the same ole tired advice like exchange links, submit to directories, post in forums yada yada yads *yawns* Yeah we know all that. So I've decided to compile a list of sites that can send mega uber server killing death traffic along with an approximation of the amount of traffic one can expect to receive from each site. If you can add to the list it would be appreciated but please no more generic marketing advice like the ones mentioned above. Digg.com - Sites that get dugg to the front page receive upwards of 50,000 visitors in a single day I hear. I've never been dugg but I did receive 200+ visitors shortly after submitting a story...then it got buried. Digg will end your server...Oh you can digg me here if you want i-am-bored.com - If you have a site or something on your site thats cool or interesting then i-am-bored is the place to submit it. My site got listed and received nearly 20,000 visitors in 2 days. I still get traffic from i-am-bored to this day. Funny story goes with this one, the day it got listed I needed to upgrade my web hosting plan to cope with the traffic. My web hosts decided to upgrade the mysql version at the same time which had a bug that causes MYISAM tables to become corrupted if they have deleted rows. So anyway that messed things up that whole day pretty much, was a bit gutted to be honest. Slashdot.org - I don't know too much about Slashdot but I've heard they send traffic on a par with digg. If anyone here has been slashdotted then feel free to share your experience. Your site needs to be Tech related for this one, not sure how strict they are on that?? ebaumsworld.com/ - The Link Dump section on eBaums. Ok I've never been able to submit a site to this cus the stupid login yolk doesn't seem to work but if you did get listed here you could expect crazy traffic going by their adbrite stats: 23,245 visitors per week and I do know that elinks stay on the front page for 7-11 days usually. Feel free to submit Rate My Doodle cus I can't get that login thingy working but anyways. Cool Site of the Day - Submitted my site 2 months ago and got no response which was a bit odd but I hear you can expect to receive 1000-5000 visitors if it makes the cool site and some traffic from the archives for a long time afterwards. wallpapervault.com - If you have an image based or wallpaper site you can expect to receive a solid 200 visitors a day for about a month by being listed here, then you'll probably get buried to page 10 or something depending on the title you enter. Pretty good for a month though. metafilter.com - I dunno anything about this site yet but I've heard they send ultra traffic, you need to pay $5 to register. (thats no good we want FREE traffic ) If you have any experience with metafilter then post away. Some other sites I've heard send high traffic are: bored.com boredatwork.com fark.com ubersite.com milkandcookies.com davesdaily.com majorgeeks.com shoutwire.com/ - 1000 visitors approx Got any more? List them here and give details, if you've been listed on any of the above sites then share your experience. And again don't post any generic marketing advice, just mention sites or indeed new methods that generate uber traffic uber fast
Nice post! It's true, those sites can send MEGA traffic. Also, http://www.shoutwire.com has been pretty good as well.
I'll add shoutwire to the list Rob, any idea what level of traffic shoutwire can send? Roxyyo thats a good question actually, the i-am-bored traffic was completely un-targeted although i did get 100+ visitors that return almost daily to the site out of it and a rake of links to the site from myspace profiles and such. Wallpapervault is uber targeted if you have a wallpaper site, you'll do well from getting listed there. The rest I can't really say yet, I'd be interested to know how well people did from Cool Site of the Day. I know Digg and Slashdot traffic tends to die off fairly quickly but getting that much traffic can surely never be a bad thing. I do think that sites like this can really help to get the word out about a new site and getting started is always the hardest part. Targeted mega traffic, well that really is the Holy Grail of Traffic...
Shoutwire is pretty cool actually. Tis basically digg but fast, digg is shockingly slow on dial-up...
HA! I just noticed that a site of mine is on Shoutwire's home page and has already sent me 1,200 visitors today. Looks like a lot of people use torrentspy too.
One thing I noticed is that shoutwire doesn't last as long as a digg post. Meaning I get hits from comments in digg months after the digg, but shoutwire's posts just seem to disappear into the ether...
Whats the point of getting mega traffic to a site if it's not qualified traffic... If its hopeing people will click on Adsense ads I can see the point but apart from that I just can't see the point unless the traffic is related to products you are trying to sell.
It's not a fixed, magic number. Speculation: The rate of Diggs vs. the submit timestamp (burst of diggs) and the submitter previous stories (trust factor) are major factors. For example, if you submit a story now, and it gets 50 diggs in 5 minutes, you'll probably hit the front page. And if you have a lot of stories that already hit the front page, any new one has a higher chance to hit it again. Minor factors: Who diggs your story (friends vs. strangers), reports and number of comments (burst and number). At least that's how I would do it
I just got on the front page of digg about 26 hours ago. So far I've received about 15,000 uniques. However, there's also a lot of other traffic that comes indirectly from digg. For example, the entry also made delicious popular and I've seen about 2000 uniques. diggdot.us sent about 1000. I've also been linked to by about 50+ other blogs and that is bringing in some nice traffic, the links will also help with SERPs. The problem with Digg traffic from what I hear is that you can't really monitize it. I can't vouch for that personally because I don't run any ads on my blog.
It takes about 40 diggs to make the front page, a little less if the diggs happen rapidly. I'm pretty sure this is how it works, when my entry was getting close I watched for awhile and it seemed like every time a story got 41 diggs it would go to the front page. If the diggs were coming faster they would go aroud 35.
I was first on shoutwire for 3 days in the movies section. Never got much traffic and then my listing got removed www.blogreporter.biz is an amaizing one for blogs! You might even get a few daily clicks if you are at the top but you will stay there for a long time
I've been on ebaumsworld, fark, i-am-bored and bored.com They all sent me about 10,000 visitors each... -Chris
Adult sites can submit to fuckingmotherfucker.com .. they approve most sites within 24 hours and send a minimum of 1500 hits.