Lol, I love this...people promoting there sites on other sites that have NOTHING to do with their niche "Stumble me!" "Digg me"...I have sites with over 50k uniques a day, and I NEVER "Digg it" or use any other stumble or whatever. You need to target your visitors. Your not going to get permanent traffic doing what EVERYONE else is doing..why can't people be original. Say you're trying to advertise a website about beef. You don't go to Digg, which is full of techies, to advertise an article about beef. You find out about forums for "beef", other sites about "beef". you inform people intrested in beef. Anyway, just my 2 cents..seeing at how the freebies and marketing forums are filled with the digg me stuff. oh and another thing: Whats the point of getting on the front page of digg, a surge of traffic from people that don't click ads and hit the back button within 15 seconds? Im a frequent digg user, just to read news then click back to digg. No point really. On a final note: If you're site is good it WILL get traffic, you're not going to get far by getting other people not intrested in you're site to digg it or whatever.
but Im sure they are not going to frequently visit a site about beef. There is different types of traffic. Good targeted traffic = Converts well on your site Bad traffic = Uses your bandwith and leaves within seconds Junk traffic: China, etc. Proxy traffic. Niche Targeted traffic. GOLD.
I agree that not all "traffic is traffic". If this were so, companies would not be spending $10+ per click.
is ok to ask for diggs and stumbles but not when your post or site is 24k shit like in 90 percent of the cases here
It's not just about traffic, trust me, at times some posts just get to everyones fav list and gets long term traffic, good ranking in SE and eventually more traffic ! Been there, experienced it, so speaking about it. There's much behind short term traffic, provided the site offers great content. ~G
Johnny: Why are you worrying about how other people market their sites? Social bookmarking sites are just another tool in the site marketers toolbox. A good craftsman will have many tools, using each as appropriate. I don't derogate my pipe wrench because it isn't good at cutting plywood sheets.
When one of my sites was included in an article on slashdot i got tons of traffic.. I made $10 from adsense!!! But had to pay out $100 in hosting fees as a result of it... Slashdot and digg sends useless traffic. they are people who aren't going to buy your product and they aren't going to click your ads. Spammers toolbox. An internet marketer who knows anything will know that mass traffic is useless traffic.
Johnny, I totally agree. It seems as though everyone is obsessed with their stats, even if the visitors are never really going to help their business grow. I would rather have 1000 targeted visitors, who truly want to visit my site, then 10,000 untargeted folds who "stumble" across my site, and leave as quickly as they arrived. Cheers, briguy
that sucks. I got 2 story on front page for one site. It bought me over 50 link from different blog and i went to first result to my keyword. those link love are priceless BTW, you can get anything on digg front page. My next story will be about taking a dump and i will show you how it goes
that sucks. I got 2 story on front page for one site. It bought me over 50 link from different blog and i went to first result for my keyword. those link love are priceless BTW, you can get anything on digg front page. My next story will be about taking a dump and i will show you how it goes. And you think those people don't buy stuff? You are wrong.. http://blogs.business2.com/business2blog/2007/week8/index.html
I'm sorry to hear that Digg (etc...) doesn't work for you guys. They work fine for me. There is an old saying "A poor workman blames his tools."
I agree wholeheartedly with the OP and his supporters here. However, there is one reason to get dugg. Most user profiles are PR 4 on the first page of their dugg list. As you know, digg stories link directly to the story, not with a dynamic php script redirect like seen on hotscripts.com or other sites. That makes your story even more popular with the search engines. I keep my site in my#1 to maximize the benefit from the PR. That said, the initial boost of traffic doesn't mean that much, I look for the long term on this and conclude that getting dugg = good.
You need to put some effort into writing a good story, then you can get far. And don't waste your time here getting something dugg that will never make it. If you cannot get up in digg despite the fact you are plugging it all over DP, then the problem is what you write ... not Digg ... not DP.
Lets say my site about beef hits the front of digg and then gets linked by 500 sites. Suddenly my Google rankings for the term "buy beef online" shoot up and I start making lots of cash. Digg isn't about the traffic, its about the links.