Nice thread. Other good sources of traffic are http://www.hotscripts.com and http://www.good-tutorials.com
From my experiences; Digg: you'll be lucky to break 5,000 the first day. I-am-bored: same as digg. Slashdot: 100K + the first day. eBaums: 10K over 2 days, nice residual traffic many months after. CSOTD: 3K first day. milkandcookies: can't remember, but not that great. shoutwire: 5K (you make front page of torrentspy) Gorillamask: 5K
Actually I've been on hotscripts a couple of times, they sent me a good solid 200-300 visitors for the first couple of days and then another 100 visitors per day for a long time afterwards. I had 2 submissions in the php section, I'll add that to list, cheers webbom. Also do you know how much traffic good-tutorials.com can send? Roman, I've heard things about gorillamask actually. I'll add that to the list too. That slashdot traffic just seems unreal, 100k....jayz. *edit - well I would add them to the list but it seems I can no longer edit that post..that feature is pretty annoying on the forums, ah well*
This is a great thread guys! Thanks =) Guess I have more work to do. With the exception of the adult related sites, which specify their niches...... are these other site targeted to a specific niche? ________________ Carpe Diem! Make today a great one.... ----Tabitha J Naylor----
Does all this extra traffic from these sites increase your income? I read on another site that the digg effect is more likely to cost you, putting a strain on your server, and that digg users don't really click on ads.
Can anyone explain what the deal is with DIGG? I read sooo much about it, but think maybe I am missing why there is sooo much hype... ________________ Carpe Diem! Make today a great one.... ----Tabitha J Naylor----
That was my expirence. It didn't cost me anything but I made very very little with just AdSense there. What it did do for me was get me backlinks. People saw it on Digg and then posted to their blogs/other sites about it. The backlinks have generated more traffic long term than Digg did. It also turned up an interview offer that turned out great. Overall the plus of Digg was exposure for me. But then again that is the whole point of Digg, eh?
Try it out, if your ad placement is really bad, it might. Unless your CTR is worst than my already lousy CTR, I would say it'll be hard to cost more than you gain. Unless your host is a crappy one that can't handle the traffic and suspends your account of course. Be sure to prepare a few GB of bandwidth, which varies depending on the size of your pages.
I'm sure there are but I haven't come across any yet. Generally to get listed on these sites you just have to have something of general interest to people on your site. I'm sure you could get a shopping site listed if you use your imagination...hey you could invent some new-fangled revolutionary new way of shopping online, you'd get listed for sure then.
I imagine that the traffic will be just as targeted as the article or link that produces it. If it is unrelated to your product or service then then the traffic will just use bandwidth...
A lot of cool links, that's all A better explanation would be that it's the "users" that decide this, and they do it fast. So, 3 times a day (that's the rate that the front page changes completely), you get to see what a lot of people think it's cool.
You greatly underestimate the Hun. worldsex.com was good for 100,000 uniques in 24 hours for me. If you have adult sites then raw traffic isn't very difficult.
I've just submitted my fathers site About top comedyto I am bored and bored.com, it will be interesting to see if they get accepted and if they do will the number of visitors they send.
awesome post..definatley didn't know about a few of those. Thanks Oh, and Shout definately can do better then 1k..I got just over 7 from it this weekend.