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.