Google and D**g interaction?

I know D**g.com can be a bad word in some of these forums (replace ** with 'ig' if you aren't sure what I'm talking about), but I was just wondering why there would be an interaction between it and Google.

On Sunday, a post on my site got d**g. The traffic (~30,000 uniques) didn't surprise me (and I'm now back to my regular daily traffic), but what really surprised me was that Google traffic has since skyrocketed.

I had been getting about 100 visitors per day from Google, but now I'm receiving about 500. None of these visitors are searching for anything related to the d**g post, so what would cause this?

Sorry if this is a silly question, I'm just a complete newbie to optimizing traffic from Google.

 

I can imagine Google considers it like a human reviewed, quality link so why not use that publicly available data to help their algorithm?

It's like getting a link from CNN or the BBC - Google trusts them to link only to quality sources so they bump you up at least temporarily on the premise you are newsworthy.

 

30,000 visits also PROBABLY resulted in at least a few linkbacks, it would seem.

 

whats the link that got digged via digg.com?

 

you need to look at the logs and see which keyphrases are being searched for.

sometimes it can be surprisingly simple. say they saw your page on digg earlier than tried to search for it, either by the keywords they remember associated with it or the site title itself.

backlinks would help but you won't see those changes immediately; it'll take a few days, maybe a week.

 

The only explanation I can see is that some blogs that google crawls a lot linked to you - because they liked the Digged post.

 

It was this golf ball explosion post. On my humor site (see my signature).

The keywords that REALLY went up in search were for combinations of geometry with other words and "prank names". Neither of these had anything to do with my golf ball post.

 

oh yeah .. say no to crack

 

Yeah I wouldn't say that there isn't exclusive interaction between Google and Digg, rather the linkbacks will obviously effect all search engines which factor it into their algo.

 

Spiders/scrapers from random people possibly? Anybody can put any referrer they want in a page access via a script.... in other words, they may not be coming from google at all.