Getting a story published on your website to digg.com front page is definitely a great way to boost your link popularity, especially if your story proves to be one of high interest and regard - you'll automagically start getting free inbound links from places you'd never think of. So how many times have you got dugg to digg.com homepage and how has it affected your longer term traffic and link popularity? One of my sites got dugg to front page four times and while the initial traffic increase was definitely above all normal averages I would say that even the long term average overall increased. After the fourth digging (it happened last thursday) I think it's possible for a daily traffic average to settle even at around 1000 a day. Before that it was 500 to 600 or so. Thanks Daniel
I've been on the homepage once with one website with around 500 diggs for a list of 100 free games and once shortly with 138 diggs for filling a Gmail account in 24 hours. I've also been on the homepage of Shoutwire.com two or three times. Digg is good in some ways for marketing, but it will ruin your CTR! Of the top of my head, my CTR went way down to .55% after being on Digg! Most Diggers do not click ads. Digg can also take down your website and/or web host if you are unprepared for the traffic. The backlinks are good though. I guess they are worth it if you are willing to risk very low CTRs, which could cause you to make less money for ad clicks. I've also found Digg users are strange in what they like. They'll go crazy and digg everything with the words AJAX, Linux, or Mario in it, but they won't digg some things you would think are very interesting. My email was once spoofed and someone registered hundreds of accounts on my website in an hour after they didn't like one of my stories.
Thanks for the info. My CTR was always low though. I suppose I just don't have the right type of sites for it. I am starting to turn more to manual link spot selling and possibly soon some CPM advertising, which I again plan to sell manually, though I might try some programs. That actually happened to me last time. My bandwidth run out. Luckily though I wasn't screwed for the month as I have a good host willing to sponsor me due to high potential and for only a link back in exchange, so I'm back up and running with lots of extra bandwidth. Yeah. I suppose for those who don't rely so much on CTR this doesn't present much of a problem, while it's a great way to get some starting traffic and even sometimes some new members to your site community (if you have one). Oh well... I guess that's kind of a mystery. Digg trends! I suppose this is because many slashdot users are switching over to digg.com, apparently including trolls and other kinds of bad guys. I'm not sure why, but it does seem like tech communities have a higher percentage of those kinds of people.. I have been lucky though as most of comments that came to my stories were decent and no attacks whatsoever really happened. Thanks. Danijel
8 times for a front-page digg... http://www.digg.com/search?search=digitalpoint&area=promoted&type=both&age=all&search-buried=on
<offtopic> Man Shawn I didn't know you got sued by MPAA. I guess I haven't been paying enough attention as those things usually interest me. I have no respect for MPAA and RIAA as they are nothing but leeches on our culture which contribute absolutely nothing. I have more respect of an illegal file sharer then them, even if I don't publically condone illegal sharing (I condone legal licensing of free content/software and sharing that instead, like Free Software/Open Source). Oh well, good choice that you're not going to settle (that way they'd win). Good luck! </offtopic>
I've had 4 now but then again I don't have the TopsoBot installed on any of my sites THe sites that were dug don't have AdSense on them so I can't give any CTR data.
TopsoBot? I don't have adsense on any of my sites either. Only chitika for now... Btw, here is a link of mine http://digg.com/search?search=nuxified&submit=Search&area=promoted&type=both&age=60&search-buried=on