The Digg Effect
Don’t EVER let anyone tell you that the Digg Effect isn’t real, because man, it is.
Three days ago, my blog recieved 40 pageviews. I hadn’t been advertising it or anything; a select group of friends read it and sometimes linked to me. It’s more about my writing itch than popularity, as I believe it should be for everyone involved in blogging. Otherwise, you end up writing for traffic, and that never works out.
After the Yahoo/Digg story, my pageviews jumped. And I don’t mean a little jump, like “hey, that’s cool” kinda jump. I’m talking “where in the blue hell are all these people coming from” kind of jump. In one day, my Yahoo/Digg post recieved over 6,800 visitors. Some of them were from blogs linking in, but 99% came directly from Digg.
Today, the traffic is poised to double that, and it’s not because of Digg. The Digg story was demoted from the front page; I’m still recieving traffic from other people linking to the Digg story, but most of my visitors today have come from other blogs that have picked up the story and linked back. The two sites sending the most traffic my way today have been Memeorandum (where it’s the top story at the moment) and TechCrunch, where Mike linked to the post. There’s also a lot coming from WordPress.com Dashboards due to this site being ranked in the top three blogs on WordPress.com and being the fastest-growing WordPress.com blog, as well.
The moral of the story? Don’t ever doubt the effect Digg can have on your blog. I shudder to think how much that Digg link would have cost me if I were paying for bandwidth. Thanks, WordPress!
[...] Last week during my social media 101 talk, I spent some time introducing Digg and talking about it’s efficiency as an attention allocator. Great way for people to discover your thoughts. Jeremy Botter gives us the proof in that pudding today with a post about his experience with the Digg effect. He did a post on the possibility of Yahoo buying Digg, and his blog went from 40 page views a day to around 6,800. Well, hello there. [...]
Weblogs Work » Digg It
January 26, 2006 at 11:36 am
[...] For $30 million supposedly, Search Engine Journal suggesting it might be $35 million, that IS a good deal when you think of how popular Digg is. I use it every day, and there are some really great resources to be found there. How popular can it be? As J. Botter found out, it can really transform a site’s traffic, really proving that the social bookmarking experiment is a hit. [...]
The English Guy » Yahoo Snapping Up Digg?
January 26, 2006 at 12:23 pm
Is not very funny, but its life..
malkovitch
January 26, 2006 at 2:59 pm
Will Yahoo! Buy Digg?
I’ve been hearing about the recent rumors that Yahoo is in talks with Digg to be bought out for a rumored $30 billion. However, the rumors were denied by Kevin Rose.
AMCP Tech Blog
January 26, 2006 at 4:01 pm
We should have seen this coming
Seems to me to make sense that comments from the last couple of days all kinda work together.
Firstly, Yahoo! happy to be second in the search game.
Secondly, Yahoo! already buying up other social software.
And now this! Yahoo! want to buy digg. If…
JayMcCormack.com
January 26, 2006 at 5:21 pm
Congratulations! Keep up the great posts and have fun!
Dewayne Mikkelson
January 27, 2006 at 9:47 am
I agree, Digg can really boost your traffic.
I did one post on the top 10 Advantages of ADD in a high tech career and through Digg and Del.icio.us got 30,000 unique hits in 3 days, and 200+ blogs either linking or writing posts about it.
It’s the new slashdot.
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February 28, 2006 at 5:07 am
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