I have a couple of ideas for articles that I've been thinking on investing on site promotion rather than putting on my own site. Since in the case of article submission, I am taking a resource off of my own site; I want to get the most bang for my buck/time. I've heard promising results from both methods. My question is which is better for long-term SEO. It seems being Dugg can get you a huge spike in traffic, but does it last for more than just a few days? Has anyone run into adverse results from either - other than bandwidth? Thoughts, suggestions? p.s. This is not a question on how to get Dugg or submit articles, but a question about results you've had from doing them with your own articles.
A good Digging will get you massive amounts of traffic for a week, a steady decline in traffic, and then more traffic than you originally had before the Digg story, but not nearly as much as the Digg traffic.
you get a ton of backlinks from a well dugg link. People blog it and add it to their pages if it's a cool link. Worked wonders for my site. I made my site, submitted to digg soon as it was done and a few months later sold it for $3,500 @ 3-4,000 uniques per day
Did you submit every page of content or just ones you thought had a better chance of good results? So far 2 for Digg, probably should have made this a poll.
I just submitted the main page of the site. It was only like a 4 page site anyway. After I made digg front page and got a bunch of digg's and B/L's I instantly got pushed way way up in the serps on Google and MSN, Yahoo never really gave me anything. At one point I was making $50 a day off the site because I was getting massive traffic from google. Then all the sudden I dropped off the google serps, maybe I got hit with a penelty for getting too many links too fast? The page is still #2 in MSN for "text message", it used to be #1. But the guy has all the inner pages broken, the menu at the top is all broken links, dunno what he's doing with it. http://search.msn.com/results.aspx?q=text+message&Form=MSNH
Article submission in my view as i tried digg recently for the First time and still no traffic. Here's my article - http://digg.com/health/Chikun_Gunya_Attack_in_Indian_States. From Digg i haven't got any traffic but i am expecting a lot after i get a good amount of Diggs
I'm going to recommend the Digg approach as well. It is a short lasting spike, but the long tail traffic should be more than you started with.