Digg Made Easy
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Over the last seven days we’ve managed to pull in over 75,000 unique visitors via one of the biggest social bookmark sites, Digg.com. As you all might know, it’s very hard to get onto the front page if your submitting one of your blog articles. Diggers don’t care about yet another blog unless it’s really, really good stuff. They tend to go for news items, weird and funny pictures and tech industry news.
Anything out of the ordinary which smells fishy will get buried in no-time by the Digg nazis. Chances are very slim but not impossible.
So how did we manage to get 75k people checking out our site without getting buried? Well we actually did get buried, after 1547 diggs. And our user account was banned along the way. Again. Yet we managed to generate over 100,000 unique visitors that visited wrongbob.com, where our submitted article was published. It was nothing more than a picture of a guy doing something stupid on his BMX and a stupid headline to go with it.
The fact that there are no ads on that page made sure that people did not start burying the picture straight away. This gave the page a better shot at hitting the desired front page. The only thing we did was link the image to our blog and we redirected wrongbob.com to us too. The ~75% of diggers that clicked the image or tried the main domain to see if there were more funnies to be found ended up here. It doesn’t stop there, once your page gets popular, other sites will start linking to it. We ended up on shoutwire, popurls and countless forums. One indirect Digg frontpage hit now has nearly brought us over 75,000 unique visitors in the past 7 days!
The reason that the stats get broken off so abruptly is because a few people probably complained to the Digg staff about this article being nothing more than ordinary link bait. The post was removed from Digg and our user account and the domain wrongbob.com was banned. It was worth the 75k visitors. A domain these days is $8,95 and a Digg useraccount comes for free. You won’t buy traffic like that anywhere else! Besides the traffic, we got some nice links of sites that copied the image.
There are of course several factors that will influence the outcome of your article submission. Besides having to find a picture that people will most likely Digg, you also have to make sure you submit at the right time and you’ll need some luck. To get your story the little nudge it might need to get noticed you can use a few resources. Ask your friends to digg the story, offer people in webmaster forums a Digg trade or sign up with Diggbarter.com. A site where you can trade diggs via an automated system. Additional tips and tricks you can use can be seen in the video I found on ShaunLow.com.
Happy Digging!
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re here today, we will let you in on a little secret that influences the amount of traffic certain blogs seem to get from the different social bookmarking services out there, all the time. Hitting thefront page on Diggor Reddit is a wet dream for many aspiring money making bloggers and affiliate marketers. The amount of raw traffic that will pass through your blog can be tremendous and the conversion of this traffic into clicks can pay off nicely. We won
re here today, we will let you in on a little secret that influences the amount of traffic certain blogs seem to get from the different social bookmarking services out there, all the time. Hitting thefront page on Diggor Reddit is a wet dream for many aspiring money making bloggers and affiliate marketers. The amount of raw traffic that will pass through your blog can be tremendous and the conversion of this traffic into clicks can pay off nicely. We won
re here today, we will let you in on a little secret that influences the amount of traffic certain blogs seem to get from the different social bookmarking services out there, all the time. Hitting thefront page on Diggor Reddit is a wet dream for many aspiring money making bloggers and affiliate marketers. The amount of raw traffic that will pass through your blog can be tremendous and the conversion of this traffic into clicks can pay off nicely. We won
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Did getting on Digg earn you more than $8.95?
Even if he didn’t earn $8.95 directly, he surely got some more interested visitors. Which is a lot more worth than $8.95, considering the money spend by many sites in promotion. Even a promotion strategy worth $100 is not going to get him 75K unique visits.
I wish I too had cow brains
How many interested visitors do you think? Those on Digg were interested in funny photos which is a rather different target audience than this site.
Yes it did. And it’s not like just because Digg banned the domain, it’s worthless.
How did you earn the money? I’m interested to know.
haha thats some interesting stuff!
not too sure what the 8.95 was about though!
$8.95 is the cost of registering a domain name. This was brought up because the wrongbob one was banned.
Digg can bring in a lot of traffic if you can hit the front page. And as you said once you get there, other sites will link in as well. 75k, a nice little number there
Great site, I’ve just started my blog leot me know what you think!!
I will link you up
Thank You
Steven
I am going to have to think of another name to use starting next month LOL. Steven seems so generic
Hey Steven. Read this great article on having a successful blog launch: http://www.avivadirectory.com/successful-blog-launch/ and good luck on your blogging adventures!
Wow you are a freaking genius. That is alot of visitors!
I’ve had my blog up forever, 75k seems so far away -.-
How about 75K seems impossible.
Cow… You’re as evil ad evil gets…
Thats Crazy! I wish I could get stats like that off of digg. I think the best I have done is a couple hundred but, 75,000…wow.
I think StumbleUpon is better than Digg because, the other day I got about 500 unique visitors from just 5 stumbles.
Really, thats good for only 5 stumbles. I need to get a better social bookmarking tool.
I’ve ignored it up until now but 500 visitors for 5 votes makes it very worth while.
I think its subjective. Digg is awesome for a lot of traffic at one time. StumbleUpon is good for smaller spurts
Nice one Mr Moo
One thing you will find with hitting Digg frontpage is that after the digg effect has gone, your average daily visitors will be higher than they were before they hit the frontpage, and the links will keep coming in for a few weeks.
The people who are saying Digg is worthless, I have one question for you:-
Have you had one of your stories on Digg’s Homepage ?
I would love one of my posts to be on the front page. How cool would that be?
I think Digg is a lot more luck than skill to get to the front page.
Instead of attacking those who don’t support Digg as a monetization technique, why don’t you add some value and tell us how you have personally monetized being on Digg’s homepage?
Kumiko – I think that’s the interesting thing about blogging, you can’t put a dollar amount on everything that you do. Who knows how much Mr. Cow’s digg experiment will make him, and besides, it’s not like he spent hours on posting the picture and then redirecting the domain. It was a simple idea and it “paid” off in my opinion.
A few other things that I personally think are necessary to grow your blog that you also can’t put a dollar amount on are: commenting on other blogs, participating in forums, and networking with other bloggers.
In order to make a good income with your blog, you need readers and in order to get readers you have to do some tasks that may seem pointless or short lived success, but in the long run, they aren’t.
Also, why did you change to orange???? I really miss the pink! That’s what you were known for, as well as a few other things…
Kumiko
I am sorry if you thought I was attacking what you said, I wasn’t.
What I was trying to explain was how much one story on Digg’s homepage can do for you.
What it did to my blog, was expose it to a bunch of new readers who have never read my blog before.
A lot of these new readers are people with similar sites to myself, who now regulary read and link to things I have posted on my blog, had this story not got on Digg homepage I doubt whether these people would have found my blog so quickly.
8.95$ is not lost money my god, he is just banned from digg.com!
Spreading the word
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PLEASE READ THE POST
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LOL, trying to get traffic at the same time eh lol
Another evil strategy John Chow style.. although i love this. By the way I have written Why I Love John Chow Dot Com.. Check it out on my site
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Wonderful, John.
I was wondering how you got around Digg’s secret auto-bury list!
Mooney!
Here’s an example: My brother was on Digg like he normally is. He found the johncow.com pic of the dude about to eat cowpie via his bike stunt. He clicked it and ended up here.
Then he found an article he knew I’d like and Pownced it to me. I’ve been a loyal reader ever since.
It’s comments like these that will one day end up in the “Success Stories” chapter of our memoires!
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The digg site you posted doesnt work right now,
However if you are looking for a working digg trade site you could always checkout:
http://www.diggfreak.com
They also have an affiliate program
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Thats a pretty interesting trick…but not sure if I would try that, if that it will get me blacklisted.
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That is true. And if Mr. Cow uses Godaddy, there is a coupon code for him to get his .com domains for $6.95 =] That code works for renewals too LOL
I don’t think the cow cared about interested visitors. Remember, he’s experimenting and seeing what one little cow in the herd can do with one blog.
And like he said, he got a lot of links. One thing people seem to forget when it comes to blogging and the web in general, is one thing you do today may not pay off until months down the road. People want their blog to be successful yesterday. You’ve got to build momentum. Those links he built from those 75,000 visitors = one smart cow.
I totally agree that as long as there are some loyal fans out of the 75,000 hits, there will be more to come. Its not just blogging and the web that takes time to pay off, its like that with a lot of successful things in life. Although whenever we think of money, its all one big numbers game, the numbers at one point in time do not speak for the numbers down the road. I am sure Mr. Moo will achieve lots of success. Now if only bob got some attention too LOL ^_~
If somebody wants to show me some decent earnings that have been a direct result of hitting the Digg front page (even if they’re 6 months old), I’ll publish them on Cash Quests.
And in terms of decent earnings, 75,000 hits at a 2% conversion rate on a tiny $3 affiliate earning equals $4,500. That’s decent.
Or you could throw up some eCPM advertising at $0.80 per 1,000 impressions that would net you $60. But that’s not a decent return given the time it takes to purposefully get on the Digg front page. The time spent on Diggbarter, e-mailing others and setting up the redirect would be just payment for your time and not really anything to write home about.
Getting on Digg is great fun, but I’d argue that it’s not really “worth it” unless you can do it monthly. Then it changes from a meaningless spike into sustained traffic.
Digg on!
It is true that most of the people visited the site for seeing more interesting photos. But I’m sure that atleast 1% of the people found this site interesting and is sure to check it again.
As am I? I am always interested in money statistics =]
You’re probably interested in how much and not how as it’s obvious if you look at the ads.
From the day the article hit the front page up until now, Adsense dairy and soya ads made us $30,45
Traffic seems to be higher than before the spike, not entirely measurable since we redirected to John Chow for over 24 hours.
@Cash Quests
Adsense provides CPM and CPC ads. So impression is also going to earn you some money (Ofcourse, I don’t think impression alone could have made even $5 of $30.45).
Further, as visitors increase, your alexa rank increases. Alexa rank is used by many paid review sites.
@Joyce: You’re right about the Alexa rank. But that rank is also a 3month average which means a Digg spike on one day alone doesn’t have as big an impact as you’d think. The effect is also completely gone after 3 months.
@CowGod: $30.45 isn’t bad from Adsense for a week. But some of that is earnings that you would have earned already so the earnings from the Digging are actually less than that. It’s better than nothing, but as I’m all about the numbers (and need to get out more, right?), I don’t really see the value in *devoting time* to get on Digg if it makes you less than thirty dollars. With the traffic that you’re probably pulling naturally, you could spend the time writing a post with an affiliate link and probably make triple that. But still, a nice experiement!
I don’t believe we ever said we were doing it for the money. It’s links and exposure we’re looking for and that’s exactly what we got.
And what’s with your last post? Did you have too much sake when you wrote that or is it an experiment on it’s own?
I’m sorry but your about page says this site is “a one-stop-shop for your entrepreneur’s needs”. You may not be in it for the money, but I felt it was a good chance to ask about the money. I find Digg monetization quite an interesting topic.
By the way, that last post hasn’t been live for 24 hours yet but has already earned over $100. I didn’t have too much sake, but I’ll definitely be buying some!!
You’re saying that anyone that buys a link will get the following from you:
Turbo-charged targeted traffic
Enormous exposure
Boosted Google PageRank
Whopper rankings
Targeted: yes / Turbo-charged: No
Exposure: Yes / Enormous: No
Boosted Google PageRank: No – You’re still a PR0
Whopper rankings? At Burgerking?
We can see why you are trying to sell your linkspace the best way you can, but we feel you’re overpromising and under delivering on this one. And no, we’re not gonna buy a link to see for ourselves.
And as for the $100 you made with link sales, you should have waited until you got some decent PageRank and sell the same links for more money.
Thanks for the reminder. We were planning on changing the about page slightly but never got around to it.
Wait for PR?? Why wait? Isn’t it awesome to still be able to sell links with PR0?? There’s nothing stopping me from selling them again at triple the price once I have PR. They’re not lifetime links!
I have to correct you on the boosted PR as google stores pagerank internally and just sometimes exports it to the toolbar. Hence, google probably sees my site as PR5 (maybe) but just hasn’t exported it to the toolbar yet. When update time comes around, the sites that are linked will receive the benefit.
As for the ‘enormous’ and ‘turbocharged’ claims – you should really buy a link to find out. Don’t forget that there isn’t much else in my sidebar! Sites that have been previously listed there have often mentioned Cash Quests as their biggest referrer.
And for just $10 it’s definitely not underdelivering!!
It takes 2 minutes to check:-
Results: Your current Google PageRank is 0. Based on our calculations, we predict your future PageRank after the next Google update will be 0.
A quick check across the first 12 Google data centres gives a PR of 0 as well. It would be really unusual for your PR to remain at 0 after the first export, unless of course you’ve done something to upset Google?
It’s not.
If you have evil brains like Mr. Cow, then its not
Its not impossible, it just takes time to build your readership
Where the heck is my avatar?? I’m just a shadow now?
It’s true that you can’t put a dollar amount on everything but I’m still curious just how much money can be earned directly from a Digg – not the aftermath – the Digg itself. I personally believe that far too much emphasis is put on Digg when an interesting post can have the same “aftermath effect”. So many people seem concerned about getting on Digg when (in my mind) a link from a popular blogger in your niche has greater value as it is far more targeted.