The digg effect, my experience

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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

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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

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

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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

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