digg traffic is sh*t

If I was to compare it to my old days working in adult, I would compare digg traffic to "freeloaders". Meaning traffic that does nothing for you other than to leech of your content. Recently I've been reading more and more reports of the "digg effect" and how much money people managed to squeeze out of it.

Digg users are tech savvy, not really the dumb, naive crowd that would be easy to monetize by upselling them to Adsense or other affiliate programs. I am really dumbfounded by everyone seeming to try so hard to get their pages linked on there.

My suggestion:

E.g. if you have a tech site, and you have cool, link-worthy content, shoot for mainstream blogs with tons of traffic (like Gizmodo). You'll get a similar amount of traffic, and it'll be much easier to monetize while melting your server. Just send the editor(s) an email, submit your story manually and watch the traffic roll in. Additionally, you will get picked up by tons of other bloggers who, if they like your site, will give you free backlinks.

Rinse and repeat.

 

Digg can be a good way of raising awareness within a community. Bloggers trawl through social bookmarkers like Digg and delicious looking for hot stories to post about.

I'd say do both - Digg and contact larger blogs directly.

 

Friend of mine got a page on the digg website got some decent visitors and money out it and some extra returning visitors.

 

Digg isnt always about the immediate influx of visitors creating cash. It gets you plenty of backlinks which in turn help with search engine rankings and makes people more aware. The more sites that link the more are aware a higher amount of people visit and it helps your site grow

Of course Digg is just 1 way of helping your site grow but I wouldnt sweat if your site doesnt make it to the home page.

 

i don't quite agree with you...if you can make it to the front of Digg...you'll know what it can do for u..

 

Who dont you agree with in the thread?

 

I think changes will come soon. These social bookmark sites are becomming more and more mainstream. There's alot of new users and potential clients.

 

I agree with you. Many newbie webmasters do not understand what Digg traffic really is.

But you can make money with Adsense from it. I've made a good bit of change with Adsense from Digg traffic. But it can also really hurt your CTR and get you smart priced.

 

I must say it brings good traffic and money to ....
Not very related traffic but good traffic

 

Yeah traffic from Digg may not be the best, but it does provide an opportunity for LOTS of people to view your site increasing the chances it may get picked up by a more relative outlet.

 

There are other ways to take advantage of digg traffic other than sticking some adsense up on the page and hoping some of the tech savvy digg users accidently click on one.

CPM ads are a great example, it makes no difference if someone clicks on them or not; you're still getting the cash. Adding popups / unders to your site for a day or two might be a good idea depending on your websites topic.

Excluding those two options though, like already mentioned you're just getting your site name and brand out there. If you're websites content is digg-worthy you're obviously doing something right and traffic will grow steadily on it's own.

 

it depends what sort of site too... you could have a site that you pay loads of peaple to digg and you can get it to the front page. If its a rubbish site that no one is intrested in youll just get traffic but no one will buy anything/click adsence or return ect... if its a great site and a great story and a good service ect.. then youll make money

 

The backlinks and blog postings are worth more than any PPC nonsense you can stick on the page. Look at the bigger picture.

more backlinks = higher serps = more organic traffic
Quality of traffic: organic traffic > all other traffic combined

 

Bandwidth is cheap these days, that's why Digg is worth it.