Comments on: The Lasting Digg Effect

By: Powerofeyes

Powerofeyes — Fri, 06 Jun 2008 02:54:19 +0000

A cute image showing the effect of an article featuring on homepage. Digg is known to send massive traffic to a website in no time and this image is a pretty good example of it. I see a good sense of humor from the author.

By: fp

fp — Mon, 24 Mar 2008 21:13:36 +0000

Nice, I have found a few articles about digg effect saying how bad is to be on the digg first page. I prefer your version and consider closer to the truth. I’m trying to write a few articles to reach the digg first page, to see exactly what’s happen.

By: Ben Cook

Ben Cook — Wed, 16 Jan 2008 21:52:40 +0000

@ Patrick, I’m glad you like the site! I’ve been trying to keep up my comment level on his blog as I’ve gotten several new readers from just a few minutes of work each day. Anyway, thanks for subscribing and let me know if you ever need anything.

By: Add a link to your blog

Add a link to your blog — Wed, 16 Jan 2008 21:36:59 +0000

Another good post, came in from a comment over at johnchow.com. Glad I found your site, I have subscribed and I look forward to reading more.

Thanks
Patrick

By: David Bradley

David Bradley — Wed, 09 Jan 2008 17:47:35 +0000

One of my articles in the chemistry webzine http://www.reactivereports.com on the subject of hangovers was Dugg before I’d even heard of Digg, this is quite some time ago. It garnered 250,000 readers on the first day, which caught my eye weeks later when I saw the stats and figured out that maybe this (at the time) new site was worth a closer look. Traffic died down to normal levels soon after that spike and I don’t think it’s been Digged since…

By: Blog hosting

Blog hosting — Thu, 27 Dec 2007 12:16:11 +0000

Front end server load balancing is a must for sites that are getting Dugg a lot.

By: Brandon Adcock

Brandon Adcock — Wed, 21 Nov 2007 13:56:41 +0000

This is absolutely true. I had a pcture reach #1, it got me 70k visitors in 1 day, and I still get recurring traffic 3 months later. I made a post about it, showing analytics on my blog

By: Mike

Mike — Wed, 21 Nov 2007 10:49:54 +0000

Something very similar happened to me. I wrote an article on my blog called “Cool things you can do on Mac” (http://silvermac.com/2006/cool-things-you-can-do-on-mac/ ) and I had a few visitors here and there. About 3 months later, someone submitted it to dig and just like yours, my site was “ddos-ed” with 68k uniques in the first 24 hours. The host shut it promptly down, but they were kind enough to let me in so I could install WP-cache plug-in and redirect traffic to a static page. This brought the blog back to life.

It took about 3-4 days to wear off the traffic, but just as you said, it has my site ranked extremely high on Google. Today (more than a year later) I get between 2500-4000 unique a day, at least 20% are to this article.

I had another one about problem with DVD stuck in MacBook pro, that had similar effect, but I won’t link it here, just don’t want to link-spam your blog, If someone is interested – it’s easy to find it, just google ‘dvd stuck in mbp’

One “Digger” a year is probably quite sufficient to keep a very healthy traffic on your site.

Cheers from Australia. Mike

By: Aaron

Aaron — Wed, 21 Nov 2007 03:23:43 +0000

I had a similar experience only on a much smaller scale. I posted a post about programming cheat sheets posted it to digg, gave it a few digg’s then that very day I had gotten over 70 views after that it was only like 5 a day not sure if those were from my self though.

By: Mike Huang

Mike Huang — Wed, 21 Nov 2007 02:54:50 +0000

DIGG is only used for a particular article and it doesn’t necessarily mean the blog is interesting.

-Mike