The digg effect, my experience

Before some days, one friend of mine told me a tip to make my windows xp faster. So I thought to post it in my new forum (I also posted it here).

As this was about tecnology I thought to post it at digg.com, but I didn't really expected anything from that, as I have allready posted enough quallity articles there, but with no results at all (except a few hundrend visits that come to your site just to check)

Well the first thing was that after a few hours the server could not respond to the requests....

While I was trying to figure what was the problem, I saw this!!!

Well we got in the first page, and the traffic was continue coming to the site, so I also added advertisments to the site (before that we haven't any ad, as this site is only one week old) The results were very good.

Today is the second day, and we allready got 31.000 unique visitors, several bloggers blogged about it, and we also earned about 20$ from adSense.

So it seems that digg is a very  good promotion tool,  if you can predict what those folks there like to 'digg'.

That's all, I hope that story is helpfull - interesting for the fellas here :)

i also read an article about this shared bookmarking sites, and that digg brings in more traffic than the mighty del.icio.us... maybe because their users decide if an article deserve a spot on the front page.

Yeah, I forgot to mention that part of the story.

Somebody added our site to delicious (propably a digger) and the site was in the popular list for the whole day, but the traffic was too low (about 800 visitors) in conjuction with digg.

hmmm... maybe what happened to you will inspire the creative geniuses within us to write something to post to digg, huh? after all, they have plenty of categories.
if there's one thing im obsessed about, it's targeted traffic. and digg can deliver lots of it.

Yeah, but don't expect many conversions from this.

Digg sends a lot of traffic even to sites that wont go on homepage, but the most of them will just visit your site and wont do any action (register, click an ad, etc.)

So I guess digg is just a bonus :)

... will it be just a surge of traffic? is your site still receiving a lot of hits up to now?

Not really.

First day we got 28.000 visitors, day #2 7000 and today is day 3 and we got about 1000 visitors.

I guess this will continue with much smaller numbers of visits, but it is still great, as we got some members and some money from adsense.

And the best thing of all is that it was free :)

I will update the thread later when we have a better view (in one week or so)

Ohh missed this ;)

Damn you did well

And why does your thread at Digg now go to a page full of advertisements? is this a site you created to make it more valuable and then resell it or someting?

I've sold the site, and the new owner totally destroyed it....

Now you see a parked page (maybe the new owner lost the domain too)

I know you seems to end the conversation here, but this is what social networks are about; they bring visitors as long as you are in top - usually 1 day or few days, depending on how important is your news.
What I find challenging with digg is what you said "to predict what those folks there like to 'digg'". Give them what they want it's quite a challenge.

I find when anyone diggs my articvles in digg my site rises in the SERPs exactly 7 days after - it is always 7 days, I do not know why....I have tested this and closely monitored it and with only 2 diggs, my position on page 1 of googl ecan rise from 6 to 3rd spot for a search term that has a competitive result of 1,500,000

could anyone here tell me if this forum is still active or not
cauz it seems that most of the threads seem posted years ago
confused

Digg is still the best choice when people think about bookmarking. We do also but really rare traffic come from Digg. We have some from stumbleupon.

Definitely, that story is very interesting and it is very helpful for me. Thanks for sharing it here.

Your story is giving lots of information on Digg. Thanks for sharing..

i think digg system is effect my experience because if we can one os and any body permote on the other os then you are facing peroblem

digg works if your target market is likes to bookmark - but what about for not-so-tech savvy audience? 

I love Stumble Upon more than Digg. But digg is old fashioned, and good for users seeking for latest news, in addition to promoting their own websites or blogs.

There is no doubt that digg is one of the fast and reliable source of news and easy to promote your website, blog, news and brands, i like it so much because stumble upon is hard to use rather then digg.