dont get your hopes up for diggs front page unless you know kevin

i found this dnady of a quote with regards to digg and their front page.

"It has been reported that the top 100 Digg users controlled 56% of Digg's frontpage content, and that a niche group of just twenty individuals had submitted 25% of the frontpage content."

source here

thanks digg. i guess its not really a place where the votes really count then is it?

 

That's to be expected.

I'm not so sure that I'd want lots of Digg traffic anyway.

 

My experience with getting top placement on sites like Digg and Reddit is that you get a huge amount of traffic and virtually zero leads, AdSense clicks or sales.

It might help you if you're paid CPM for ads, but otherwise my experience says don't put a lot of effort into getting top spots...

 

I agree with both of you. I have never reached the top page in digg.

 

Instead of eyeing for Digg's main page, its better to get started with bum marketing!

 

bum marketing?

 

Bum marketing is only a single piece of the puzzle. You have to understand that it is pointless to bring traffic to a site that can't convert that traffic into return visitors, customers, members, etc.

 

I'd rather get 100 ultra-targeted organic "ready to act" visitors a day than 10,000 bum rushing garbage hits. I'll make more money.

 

I wouldn't want digg for traffic, I like my articles at 40-100 diggs, so I get plenty of nice backlinks, without useless traffic. (Although getting the word out is nice).