Comments on: The Digg Effect http://www.davidrisley.com/2007/08/03/the-digg-effect/ Six Figure ProBlogger, Blog Marketing, Make Money Online, Blogging Fri, 19 Mar 2010 04:47:50 -0400 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.5 hourly 1 By: Digg Effect - In Living Color » WebbyOnline.com http://www.davidrisley.com/2007/08/03/the-digg-effect/comment-page-1/#comment-178 Digg Effect - In Living Color » WebbyOnline.com Tue, 07 Aug 2007 12:31:05 +0000 http://www.webbyonline.com/2007/08/03/the-digg-effect/#comment-178 [...] A few days ago, I posted an article saying that I got “Dugg”, meaning I got an article onto Digg.com and it sent me a big traffic spike. This was for an article called “Can Linux Replace Windows?” published over on PC Mechanic. I thought I would share with you the stats from the Digg Effect using screenshots from Google Analytics. [...] [...] A few days ago, I posted an article saying that I got “Dugg”, meaning I got an article onto Digg.com and it sent me a big traffic spike. This was for an article called “Can Linux Replace Windows?” published over on PC Mechanic. I thought I would share with you the stats from the Digg Effect using screenshots from Google Analytics. [...]

]]> By: David http://www.davidrisley.com/2007/08/03/the-digg-effect/comment-page-1/#comment-177 David Sat, 04 Aug 2007 02:15:54 +0000 http://www.webbyonline.com/2007/08/03/the-digg-effect/#comment-177 After checking out your site and seeing that headline "Flash Sucks", I can guess which one of your article was Dugg. ;) After checking out your site and seeing that headline “Flash Sucks”, I can guess which one of your article was Dugg. ;)

]]> By: Mike Malone http://www.davidrisley.com/2007/08/03/the-digg-effect/comment-page-1/#comment-176 Mike Malone Sat, 04 Aug 2007 00:05:13 +0000 http://www.webbyonline.com/2007/08/03/the-digg-effect/#comment-176 Hey David, nice post. I'm always interested in hearing how much traffic people are getting from various sources. I've noticed a lot of the same things you have: Digg users don't stick around long, and tend not to comment. StumbleUpon is a great source of interested users (possibly because they use collaborative filtering) and can provide as many page views as Digg. StumbleUpon Buzz will definitely give you a nice traffic boost too. And if you can get on del.icio.us popular (you'll need ~15 bookmarks in a few hours) then you have a pretty good chance of making it to the delicious home page, which will give you a few thousand clickthrus. Also, the type of content you're promoting can have a huge impact on the number of people who click through, particularly on Digg. I've been on Digg a number of times, and most of the time I've gotten around 10,000 or so referrals from various digg.com pages. But yesterday a post I wrote that turned out to be very controversial (I didn't consider it that controversial when I wrote it, just an opinion) made it to the Digg home page and my site received over 70,000 page views in a 12 hour period. The story made it to #1 in the top 10 list, which probably helped. It's by far the most traffic I've received from a single source. Just another interesting stat you can add to your list. Hey David, nice post. I’m always interested in hearing how much traffic people are getting from various sources. I’ve noticed a lot of the same things you have: Digg users don’t stick around long, and tend not to comment. StumbleUpon is a great source of interested users (possibly because they use collaborative filtering) and can provide as many page views as Digg.

StumbleUpon Buzz will definitely give you a nice traffic boost too. And if you can get on del.icio.us popular (you’ll need ~15 bookmarks in a few hours) then you have a pretty good chance of making it to the delicious home page, which will give you a few thousand clickthrus.

Also, the type of content you’re promoting can have a huge impact on the number of people who click through, particularly on Digg. I’ve been on Digg a number of times, and most of the time I’ve gotten around 10,000 or so referrals from various digg.com pages. But yesterday a post I wrote that turned out to be very controversial (I didn’t consider it that controversial when I wrote it, just an opinion) made it to the Digg home page and my site received over 70,000 page views in a 12 hour period. The story made it to #1 in the top 10 list, which probably helped. It’s by far the most traffic I’ve received from a single source. Just another interesting stat you can add to your list.

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