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So we’ve had a good night sleep and the first thing we did when we woke up was obviously jump out of bed to check yesterday’s statistics and see the damage Digg.com had done to our little blog. Just before we fell asleep, we had counted 1300 diggs, at this moment the number of diggs is a massive 2256! That’s a new record for us seeing the last time we managed to get ‘just’ 1547 diggs for some poor bastard falling off his bike.
So why do we use other pages to get dugg and not just post Digg-bait on our own blog?
Well there’s two main reasons why we prefer to use this method:
1) A lot of the times, popular articles on Digg are silly pictures or video clips. Now even though it doesn’t look like it, we really do try to maintain a certain level of quality on this blog. Wordless image posts is not our idea of a quality post, and thus we choose not to post these here. We have bought JohnCow.* other than dotcom domains for this purpose. Besides having an outlet for Diggbait, it also significantly reduces the risk of getting our dotcom banned from Digg. We all know what happened to John Chow right?
2) Once the picture post hits the frontpage and doesn’t get buried, changes are you’ve just created a nice PR5 domain. Not just because of the linkjuice Digg passes on, but there are tons of sites out there that publish the popular stories from the Digg front page. Popurls.com is one of many for example. Also a lot of .edu sites have mirrors up in case the Dugg site crashes. (We did once yesterday, but a few Apache tweaks sorted that out.) All you do is wait for the next Google update to come around and you’re more than likely going to receive a nice PR. Wrongbob.com is one of our sites that managed to get a PR5 this way. (And now it’s just dead in the water because we don’t know what to do with it 
)
As far as statistics go, even though it was the weekend, Digg has sent over 50,000 visitors to the submitted article and because we linked everything on that post straight to this blog, we’ve captured over 10,000 unique visits from there. And that’s just day one. If this is going to be anything like the previous Digg, loads of traffic will keep flowing in for days to come. Here’s a screen shot of our .US site that hosts the Digg article, it’s just been online since last week.
Obviously Digg traffic has a high bounce rate and it’s not considered good quality, but we’ve yet to hear the first webmaster or blogger complain about being on the front page! It might not convert in good money, but if you use the method we use,make sure that your landing page has your blog’s brand on it. When people come across your blog months later, they’ll vaguely remember your logo. color scheme and think to themselves;”Hey! I’ve been here before, must be worth checking out”.
And forget about slapping ads on, the few bucks you’ll make of that aren’t worth it in the long run. The price you’ll pay is getting hundreds of diggs less because you will get buried as a spammer.
Right, the digg is over, nothing here to see folks - lets moove along please!
(PS Just wanted to thank Sergio from SOSFACTORY.com for yet another fabulous custom cartoon header and mascot! )
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Thanks for sharing this with us. I was wondering why you had those domains. It all makes sense now.
I think I might have learned something from this. :shock:
oh… very informative…. ;)
I’ll have to try and get more picture posts to trya dnsee if i get dugg also. Maybe not this many, but eh a few will do. :mrgreen:
Wrongbob.com is one of our sites that managed to get a PR5 this way. (And now it’s just dead in the water because we don’t know what to do with it :twisted: )
I have a deal :twisted:
Will mail you shortly!
So why don’t you write a post about surviving a Digg when using WP…? I’m sure that time of hassle is worth a good post on your ‘little’ secrets…
BTW, my server was out all day, I was hoping it was a digg, but it was a flaky plugin that started going crazzzzy! A-ET Sitemaps… Mmm.. Older versions seem unstable.
John, thanks for that heads up on not using the main domain on digg. Thinking out of the milk carton I guess.
So, maybe getting Dugg is not as great as it’s hyped up to be?
haha, nice stuff you should teach a getting dugg on digg? :mrgreen:
I think I can summarize it all in two words “You’re NUTS” :lol:
Who on earth gets such ideas ??
You LUCKY MOO!!! >__<
-Mike
So I see… Another Evil Plan Explained…
Nice!
Always knew digg brought alot of traffic with frontpage but is it sustainable at all?
Congrats Mr Cow!
It’s great to hear about the back link and other long lasting effects.
I got a story on the front page yesterday so hope to make some back links from it.
can you teach me…huhuh
You lucky bastard. Its probably one of the most desirable things on the internet. A Digg effect.
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