8 Things You Should Know About Digg
When it started on Nov 2004 by Kevin Rose, Owen Byrne, Ron Gorodetzky, and Jay Adelson, they never thought that within 5 years they will be getting 40+ million monthly unique visits. Today over 14 million stories submitted by the dig users and the number of employees reached around 80. Now, many of the webmasters mention Digg as the power house for traffic. At the same time it can eat up the entire bandwidth too.
In order to get the positive effect from Digg, you should know few things in prior.
The Traffic
Traffic is the positive aspect of Digg. That’s why people mess with it. A person will feel good if he gets 50k new people visiting to his site when he checks the web page statistics. If this happened within few hours, he would be jumping right there since it boosts his daily profit margin, if he is using cost-per-click or impression based advertising.
But one thing you should keep in mind is, Digg’s traffic is not that of a good quality since the people who visit usually don’t care about the site and have no intention of visiting once again. They have come only because they have seen the digg submission either in the “Made Popular” list or in their peer’s submission list. But one thing you can make sure is that you will definitely get something out of it.
The Comments
The digg submission gets comment when posted on Digg. It can be either positive or negative. The one which comes on the front page gets most of the comments which is the common trend. These comments will be helpful too provided you take it in the right sense. Sometimes they might comment so harshly so you should have a thick skin to withstand all.
Digg is not active on Weekends
Most of the diggers are active on week days and lazy on weekends. This is a common trend among diggers. The traffic that digg bring on week end is almost the half that it used to get on week days. So it’s better to concentrate in bringing all the traffic in week days rather than on week ends.
Popularity on other social networking sites
If you hold a good place in Digg, you will get popular in other social networking sites like del.ci.ous and others. If any article from your website gets highlighted in Digg, the probability of appearing the same in other sites are really very high as it was experienced by most of the famous diggers. This is the best way to get quality traffic from other sites as well.
Cannot predict page rank even if one performs well on Digg
Even though Digg is well known site and one performs well on Digg, his page rank on Google may remain the same rather it might not improve drastically. One cannot expect a god page rank even if he performs well in Digg.
Best digg posts not always come on Digg front page
We will think that the popular posts are the one which hits the Digg front page daily, but that is the wrong perception. The best digg post not always come on the front page. One can bury a link other than digging it. Some people do this with a fear that their submissions might get unnoticed by all. We cannot prevent diggers from performing this action.
Don’t think that Digg users will click on Ads
Digg users are not interested in clicking on the ads that they come across on various pages. If you think that you can make money through ads and by bringing more traffic from Digg, you are wrong. This might not work with Digg. It can bring heavy traffic but not money!
Digg traffic might eat up your bandwidth
This happened few of the sites, since they got heavy traffic from Digg, they needed to upgrade their servers. So before getting popular on Digg, make sure that you have enough capacity to handle the traffic. One can expect an increase of 5000-10000 visitors per day for few days.
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