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The Digg Effect - My first experience

Discussion in 'Social Networks' started by kiviniar, May 4, 2007.

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  1. #1
    Got my first success at digg and it was too hot to handle :D

    http://digg.com/tech_news/The_Horror_of_working_at_Google_w_pics

    Bandwidth: 58124.99 MB and for the first time my site was down (the page views killed me)

    Highlights :
    Jumped to the no 1 in all the blog topsites
    Increase in Adsense Revenue - 35$
    70+ blog linkbacks (As per Technorati)
    Increase in the number of subscribers with 300+ added readers via feedburner

    Have register 60K uniques on Day one and 24K uniques in Day two...
    My usual is 2K per day

    edit : on day one, my site was down for 6 hours

    So now i understand why people love digg so much :rolleyes:

    Added : Since people seem to be interested in SEO

    If you guys want to know of SEO, i got one PR8 blog post backlink and 1 blogwide link, with the new backlinks

    I carve for traffic as I seek exposure.

    The digg spike gives us just that

    I am confident that my site has good content, and my blog is working out 18-20% return traffic

    Building PR is easy, but getting interest traffic is more difficult, PR is a waste if you have no traffic
     
    kiviniar, May 4, 2007 IP
  2. Comfis

    Comfis Well-Known Member

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    #2
    congrats
    how did you succeed it?
     
    Comfis, May 4, 2007 IP
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    checksum Notable Member

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    #3
    Congratulations man, hopefully some of that traffic sticks around. :)
     
    checksum, May 4, 2007 IP
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  4. kiviniar

    kiviniar Notable Member

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    #4
    Just one tip, understand the mood of the crowd and write a article centered around their interest..


    I usually prefer SU, but digg came as a surprise :)
     
    kiviniar, May 4, 2007 IP
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    frankcow Well-Known Member

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    #5
    I imagine that if it weren't all graphics you may not have had that problem...
     
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  6. kiviniar

    kiviniar Notable Member

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    #6

    Yup, i have 1000GB allotted. The high resoultion pictures killed my bandwidth

    I guess they have a min bandwidth allotted for a day
     
    kiviniar, May 4, 2007 IP
  7. sebastya

    sebastya Well-Known Member

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    #7
    nice nice :)
     
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    fireflyproject Active Member

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    Very cool post man. Good job!
     
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  9. politician

    politician Peon

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    #9
    Well done, and it was a fun article to read. :)
     
    politician, May 4, 2007 IP
  10. Skinny

    Skinny Peon

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    #10
    I've seen those pics before. Well done.

    Skinny
     
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  11. fade

    fade Well-Known Member

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    #11
    well done, digg isnt easy
     
    fade, May 4, 2007 IP
  12. DannyBly

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    #12
    good for you - thats some awesome traffic - I'm surprised that your adsense earning increase was not bigger though....
     
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  13. kiviniar

    kiviniar Notable Member

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    Digg user are very savvy when it comes to Gsense, unlike the SU users
     
    kiviniar, May 4, 2007 IP
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    neroux Active Member

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    I think thats the key issue and maybe also the hardest one. Not only in terms of digg but rather generally in marketing.
    One needs to please the masses and not himself, I can only congratulate you to this success.

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    By the way, a shamless plug from my side :), if you like my site please support me at http://digg.com/tech_news/Show_the_city_where_you_live
     
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  15. lseahyh

    lseahyh Peon

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    #15
    I do not mean to spoil the mood. But I think that digg traffic doesn't last. But the increase in backlinks is definitely good as it helps on seo.
     
    lseahyh, May 4, 2007 IP
  16. Kalyse

    Kalyse Peon

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    Ugh... hes not even mentioned SEO. Way to take the topic completely off topic.

    Quite interesting results you have there anyway :)
     
    Kalyse, May 4, 2007 IP
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    ShiftChip Well-Known Member

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    #17
    Well... Duh, he never said it did.... No one expects the traffic to stay that high up... The Digg effect is that spike in traffic.

    @Kiviniar: Congrats
     
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  18. kiviniar

    kiviniar Notable Member

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    #18
    If you guys want to know of SEO, i got one PR8 blog post backlink and 1 blogwide link, with the new backlinks ;)

    I carve for traffic as I seek exposure.

    The digg spike gives us just that

    I am confident that my site has good content, and my blog is working out 18-20% return traffic

    Building PR is easy, but getting interest traffic is more difficult, PR is a waste if you have no traffic
     
    kiviniar, May 4, 2007 IP
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    zexy Guest

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    Good job!

    The most important are the backlinks.
     
    zexy, May 4, 2007 IP
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    stickycarrots Peon

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    #20
    Wow. I am suprised you had such a great response. That's an old story. I read it while ago.

    Congrats :)
     
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