Can you Digg it?

Is digg a good way to drive traffic to your site? I was thinking of some new ways to do so, when I found Digg.com. Anyone else think digg is useful?

 

Hey themanbeast9,
Digg is pretty useful, you can get a lot of good traffic if you have good content on your site. Try it.

 

Digg is great for traffic. I get a few hundred uniques per day from them.

Don't expect diggers to click on your ads though as they are known to be blind to banner ads.

 

UM.. Digg is the fastest way to drive an incredible amount of traffic to your website.. that is if you do get on the frontpage.

 

Having said this I've seen very good bookmarked articles undigged. I still don't understand the process of digging

 

Digg is really good, for those who know how to work with the system. That means making sure you make enough friends, don't just submit your own articles and preferably be into things like firefox or apple (but not SEO).

 

If you have a non competitive keyword diggs usually show high in google rankings

 

I got on the front page 4 times in the last month and my true visitors have increased with almost 700-800/day. Lets's say that I had 400/day and now I have 1200-1300 visitors/day. That's good but you have to figure out a way to reach that front page. you need good stuff and some marketing knowledge. Diggers are easy to play with.

 

Well, getting traffic from Digg isnt necessarily a great idea.
I mean it will certainly get you traffic, but:-
1. most users will NOT click on ads
2. most users will NOT return (believe me, very few return)
3. most users will NOT sign-up or subscribe to your feed
4. if you're running a blog, most wont even bother to leave a comment

Just getting traffic from digg is not enough. you have to maximize the utility of these visitors by keeping in mind their mindset and characteristics, otherwise its just useless traffic.

 

If it's just traffic you want, then yes, digg is pretty good, you should try it. Better if you have friends you can just ask to digg your posts. If anything, it'll make your blog look more popular

 

Digg is good for traffic. But it is need hundreds or even thousands of votes (from other users) to get top rangking of this for keyword that you choose.

 

Digg is kinda useless man. They are blind when it comes to ads, RSS, Newsletters etc. It makes your server burn. the so called "digg community" will comment you to bring you down if your not one of them and you happen to make the front page without their digg (hahaaaa suckers, I made you 3xTimes this month). I really, really advise people to stop writing for digg, yes for digg. I used to write for digg only and I regret it. Silly articles, funny ones, for children to digg (yes, 80% from diggers are children). You should concentrate on the long run man. Write things that never die, that will bring you traffic tomorrow too. Write for search engines.

 

Digg will give you a lifetime ban if you abuse it even the slightest. I know from experience...

 

The problem I had with Digg is that the traffic would not convert in any way. So, in that sense, I'm going to say it's been useless for me. I mean, I can't get them to sign up for my newsletter (I think I got 4 signups out of 1000s of visitors..the conversion was really low compared to other forms of traffic)...so, digg's just been a waste of resources so far.

But, I'd love to hear any tips from those who have been able to convert digg traffic.

Cheers,

Ana

 

Digg is only good for blog sites.

 

Nobody can convert digg traffic, thats not the point.

Getting dugg means your site gets hundreds of high quality, natural links and your rankings will shoot up.

 

The best converting traffic from digg is that of mac & apple related traffic.

You have any interesting things about Mac or Apple on your site, then put it on Digg and you will be flooded with traffic believe me.

This also counts for linux for a certain extent too.

 

We have found Digg to be a pretty good source of traffic for our blogs and company. Reddit has also been really good, as well as StumbleUpon.

We have some data comparing the traffic you can get from TechCrunch, Digg, Reddit and Netscape in an article on our site. Here is one of the datapoints:



Here is the link to the full article with more info:
http://www.smallbusinesshub.com/blog/tabid/6307/bid/1104/Why-Making-the-Home-Page-of-TechCrunch-is-Better-than-Digg.aspx