Comments on: What’s One Digg Worth

By: Scott Faisal

Scott Faisal — Fri, 07 Dec 2007 05:49:46 +0000

To be successful on Digg, you have to really get a lot of votes. Interesting article as I had no idea on Digg’s impact. First place I have seen that has actual numbers to show.

By: Condom Man

Condom Man — Tue, 04 Dec 2007 14:24:27 +0000

Nice analysis, really spot on. Sad to say that some people have taken this a step further and are now operating digg ‘brokerages’ – going rate from what I’ve seen, between 50 cents and a dollar per digg …

By: John

John — Fri, 19 Oct 2007 13:16:47 +0000

I have found the same thing out about Digg. The traffic is short lived, but If used properly could still bring in a burst of sales.

By: Dave White

Dave White — Thu, 30 Nov 2006 09:17:03 +0000

When one thing stops working efficiently then it is time for another thing better than that to be launched. Also it totally depends on the amount efforts that you personally put to be benefited from sites like digg.

By: Michael Gray

Michael Gray — Wed, 29 Nov 2006 22:17:16 +0000

Yep Dave that’s correct. For example visit this story from the digg page and you’ll see the adbrite ads on the right panel turn off.

By: Hawaii SEO

Hawaii SEO — Wed, 29 Nov 2006 20:53:41 +0000

Hmmm… Do I understand you correctly that you sometimes block the display of ads based on the referrer?

If so… That’s new to me and (IMO) a great idea. Some people visit a website in the hope of seeing relevant ads and it’s a big turn off for others.

By: tony rocks

tony rocks — Wed, 29 Nov 2006 18:47:29 +0000

Sheez Mike, what kinda domain did you buy!? Send me an email with the details

By: Blackbeard

Blackbeard — Wed, 29 Nov 2006 17:10:03 +0000

I played with digg and other social media a lot in the spring and found pretty much the same thing. Digg is great for a day, but it very quickly wanes. It might score you a few links, but it’s a pretty time-consuming strategy for such a small return.

By: Michael Gray

Michael Gray — Wed, 29 Nov 2006 15:03:38 +0000

As a whole Digg users don’t like seeing ads and have them blocked, so when in Rome …

By: Keith Miller

Keith Miller — Wed, 29 Nov 2006 14:28:12 +0000

Thanks for the insight!

My digg experiment resulted in zero links; however, I still gained some worthwhile insight. I just started the domain I provided about 2 months ago. I provide spread analysis on NFL games and about one month ago (Week 9) I decided to digg the post containing my analysis. That got noticed by Google and I received 300+ organic visitors from Google directly to my post’s URL. So the next week I decided to digg my article again but it seems Google decided to index the URL pointing to digg rather than my site. May not be new information, but I found it interesting because firstly there was less traffic (~200 less visitors) and secondly, my analytics package wasn’t picking up keyword data from the referring Google query. It was just saying it was a referal from digg. I have since decided to stop weekly posting to digg to see what changes.