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Digg will give you a big spike right away but it fall off the front page so fast that it doesn't last long. Slashdot seems to give you a boost for a whole day.

by alxp 17y ago

pavs 17y ago
Each link on digg stay on the homepage for approx. 2-5 hours (depending on the time of the day), there are roughly 50-60 links on the frontpage a day. It makes sense that slashdot is likely to send you traffic throughout the day at more or less same pace. In case of digg, even after it gets removed from the front page a story can move to the "top 10 list" for the nest 10+ hours which sends huge amount of traffic. Speaking from personal experience, I have seen digg send traffic from 5k to 60k in a day. Here is a recent example: http://imgur.com/NWAWG.png http://imgur.com/NWAWG.png google analytic roughly shows the same traffic numbers.
- bemmu 17y ago
  Digg pages rank pretty OK in Google. I got very roughly 10k hits for a site from the Digg effect, then 1.5k over the next 2 years from people who randomly found the Digg post and clicked through. Biggest effect of all was that many blogs found my site through Digg, then linked back to it, leading to an improved ranking that brought 31k hits from Google (over 2 years). Still all of this is peanuts and didn't amount to anything, time spent on that site was mostly good as a learning experience. It brought in less than $500 in revenue (total) over the years, despite being in a very lucrative niche (domain names) and being on Digg, Reddit and del.icio.us main pages. Currently the site is broken and I am not maintaining it anymore, but it was a list of domain names that are expiring soon. It didn't make much revenue because right after a hit of popularity my affiliate partner cancelled their affiliate program for registering expiring domain names, and I could never find another one and could only slap AdSense there.

Digg will give you a big spike right away but it fall off the front page so fast that it doesn't last long. Slashdot seems to give you a boost for a whole day.

by alxp 17y ago

Digg will give you a big spike right away but it fall off the front page so fast that it doesn't last long. Slashdot seems to give you a boost for a whole day.

pavs 17y ago

Each link on digg stay on the homepage for approx. 2-5 hours (depending on the time of the day), there are roughly 50-60 links on the frontpage a day. It makes sense that slashdot is likely to send you traffic throughout the day at more or less same pace. In case of digg, even after it gets removed from the front page a story can move to the "top 10 list" for the nest 10+ hours which sends huge amount of traffic. Speaking from personal experience, I have seen digg send traffic from 5k to 60k in a day. Here is a recent example: http://imgur.com/NWAWG.png http://imgur.com/NWAWG.png google analytic roughly shows the same traffic numbers.

bemmu 17y ago
Digg pages rank pretty OK in Google. I got very roughly 10k hits for a site from the Digg effect, then 1.5k over the next 2 years from people who randomly found the Digg post and clicked through. Biggest effect of all was that many blogs found my site through Digg, then linked back to it, leading to an improved ranking that brought 31k hits from Google (over 2 years). Still all of this is peanuts and didn't amount to anything, time spent on that site was mostly good as a learning experience. It brought in less than $500 in revenue (total) over the years, despite being in a very lucrative niche (domain names) and being on Digg, Reddit and del.icio.us main pages. Currently the site is broken and I am not maintaining it anymore, but it was a list of domain names that are expiring soon. It didn't make much revenue because right after a hit of popularity my affiliate partner cancelled their affiliate program for registering expiring domain names, and I could never find another one and could only slap AdSense there.