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Well, maybe. But my site http://absurdlycool.com http://absurdlycool.com didn't go anywhere for a year until I got it on the Digg frontpage (got all my friends
by tectonic 18y ago
Well, maybe. But my site http://absurdlycool.com http://absurdlycool.com didn't go anywhere for a year until I got it on the Digg frontpage (got all my friends to Digg it back when that worked) and then it took off and has stayed at 5k unique per day ever since. The value of that Digg frontpage to me has been many thousands of dollars in revenue at this point, and that PR resulted in a subsequent write up on TechCrunch, LifeHacker, etc.
- tectonic 18y agoSpeaking of which, feel free to Digg my variant on the above site. However, these days it's really hard to get on the Digg frontpage. http://tinyurl.com/7t2ydc http://tinyurl.com/7t2ydc :)
- ruslan 18y agoYes and no. There's a lot of moderation (by human beings) is now going on, nonetheless we got our stuff on digg frontpage thrice without any "extraterrestrial" help, just submitted links. Last time it happened in Nov/2008. Yet, it did not help much to grow visitors, in all the cases it just resulted in a spike and fall flat after that. Digg is totally useless as a promo service, same is true about Reddit, Stumbleupon & Co.