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Site Traffic And The Steady Paycheck

Started by webomatica · 10 months ago

There's a bit of discussion concerning the traffic from Digg versus from other social sites. I thought I'd toss in two cents as I've had experience with traffic spikes from several sources, namely Digg, Valleywag, Shoutwire, Techmeme, and Megite. ... Continue reading »

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Daniel Z
2 years ago

While I agree that the vast majority of people who visit a site via Digg will never visit again (unless it's dugg again), don't underestimate its longterm value. A popular Digg story can generate hundreds of back-links from other websites to yours, which, in turn, can significantly improve your ranking in the various search engines. And good search rankings are key to delivering a steady stream of new visitors to your site. Getting one or two stories on Digg's front page can pay dividends for months (if not years) to come.

I don't advocate writing specifically for the Digg crowd, but anyone serious about building their site's traffic shouldn't completely ignore them, either.

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webomatica
2 years ago

Hey Dan (thanks for the France Gall recommendation by the way) anyhow, yeah I guess I forgot to mention the residual link creation effect. I actually didn't get too much back link action from my two stories (as far as I know). Maybe it's because my site went down?

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DnDCorner
10 months ago

Interesting comparison. Seems like if you can manage it though you would want to go ahead and use Digg as well as Techmeme etc.

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