What is Digg?130 Comments
- chriskzoo, on 10/12/2007, -7/+145I have NEVER clicked on an ad on Digg.
- DJFMA, on 10/12/2007, -10/+91I don't even see them. God I love adblock + firefox.
- sq377, on 10/12/2007, -7/+52I have.
Never on purpose... But i have. - theMurdocVolta, on 10/12/2007, -11/+51Spam is lame
You are lame.
/lame - right75, on 10/12/2007, -2/+37Good for them! Those people know how to make money.
Shame on the article's author to be so cheap and sleazy as to call them "whores". - hawkmucci, on 10/12/2007, -0/+26plenty of fish is so ghetto that you can't tell the adsense ads apart from the content of the site. but hey, for that kind of money. hell
- dclowd9901, on 10/12/2007, -4/+29Should I laugh at the advertisement at the top of this page?
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AdSense - Warning
Don't do AdSense until after you read this shocking review.
TheAdsenseTruth.com
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Good ol' automated advertising. - drpeppper, on 10/12/2007, -12/+37maybe if you dont spam your ***** website, pple might be more willing to visit?
- noodlez, on 10/12/2007, -7/+31i have clicked on ads on purpose, and i have this page whitelisted in adblock (as i do with other sites i appreciate) for the express purpose of helping to keep digg alive.
i like the page, so i'm willing to put up with the text ads to do my part in contributing to keep digg afloat. - n8r0n, on 10/12/2007, -0/+22I need to come up with an idea quick.
- realsurreal2, on 10/12/2007, -1/+16I don't know about your friends and family but mine wouldn't know what an Adsense link was - it's a link on a page, that's all they know
- geminitojanus, on 10/12/2007, -5/+19"what do you think would happen to digg if 50% of the users started using ad block?"
Kevin would only make $100k a month, which would still make Digg incredibly profitable (seeing as their only real cost is bandwidth and power for their servers).
As soon as people make advertising I'd like to see, I'll stop using AdBlock. Google used to be that, with text-only ads, but now that Digg's decided to use image ads with Google, ***** it. - snlildude87, on 10/12/2007, -0/+14i accidently clicked on an ad and thought it was a news story. the story was top 10 web tools for college student. i clicked on an ad on the top right (college care package) where they sold food.
was confused as hell for a second - KyotoWolf, on 10/12/2007, -2/+14how can Rose earn 250k a month when he cant even afford a couch, or am i missing something?
- vees, on 10/12/2007, -4/+16I don't see any embedded scripts such as Google ads because my Firefox blocks any Javascript from sites not explicitly allowed. You'd be amazed how much nonsense goes away when you do that.
- marnaq, on 10/12/2007, -1/+13And on the 0th place... Sergey and Larry!
- ChanKaiShi, on 10/12/2007, -1/+12PlentyofFish.com is run at home and hosted on 4 servers and maintained by coder himself. All being run on Windows. That's pretty amazing. Wondering what kind broadband he has in his house.
- chris9902, on 10/12/2007, -3/+14I never seen 6 of those sites.
- snypa, on 10/12/2007, -11/+19http://duggmirror.com/business_finance/The_Internet_s_Biggest_Google_Whores
- Xinareiaz, on 10/12/2007, -1/+9what would you prefer them to make a profit on? Chargeing for email?
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+7Did anyone notice that the article says "200,000 million page views per month"?
That's like... 200.000.000.000 page views. Never realized that microbes read digg. - crash331, on 10/12/2007, -0/+7My mom does. I don't know if she does $250,000 worth, though.
- ElectricGrandpa, on 10/12/2007, -7/+14To me it does seem incredibly rude to visit someone's site that they've put a lot of work into, and then to hide their one way of making money from the site. If you're going to view their site, you should view it as they want you to see it, ads and all.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+7its also funny they are advertising it on adsense ;)
anyway i make $.12 a day from adsense ;) ya im pretty rich
ive made 36 dollars so far! - Thuktun, on 10/12/2007, -0/+7This is a community site. If it weren't for those visiting the site, there would BE NO CONTENT to drive people to the ads.
- useful, on 10/12/2007, -4/+10I was making 3k/month off my site, guess I should be a on some top500 list :)
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+6Any estimates on how much money this article will make from adsense?
- christacw, on 10/12/2007, -1/+7it seems so simple. but... i never click those. supposedly nobody really ever does. and yet...
- FastZ, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5Haha, maybe I need to be on that list! In a year and half, I've made $11.71 from my Adsense ads. The most I've ever gotten in one day is $3.21 and that was in June of last year. I was looking at that Joel guy's e-book but he wants friggin' $97 for it so screw that. My sites sorta suck anyways. I ain't gonna spam a link to my blogs or my website on here because you guys dont like that. If anyone's interested in looking at my sites, you can google my username.
- jshanman, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5I have too many ideas, just not enough time or money :(
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -1/+6Yes, and no one ever buys spam either. Spammers keep sending emails not because they're worth it, but just for kicks. Don't assume that everyone in the world is just like you or your circle of friends.
- lerchmo, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4Google results would be ***** if they didn't have those advertisements. You think its cheap to run servers google is on?? look like another sellout? to what? is every site that turns a profit a sellout? why don't you take a peek at the real world.
- wildcatcs, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4I keep wondering, would digg be as successful if Kevin didn't have his popularity coming off of screensavers.
- nofxjunkee, on 10/12/2007, -2/+6"By using ad block you are taking away revenue from hard working people. Sure ads are annoying, but, for example, what do you think would happen to digg if 50% of the users started using ad block?"
I don't click on ads anyway. I have clicked on a few ads from time to time, but that's only when I'm looking for a specific product or service that I _need_ at the moment, and am probably searching google to find a vendor.
When I'm killing time on Digg, I am not looking for anything save for entertainment. - sembetu, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4I'd settle for a cool 10,000 a month. I could live quite happily on that.
- overlordmead, on 10/12/2007, -2/+6@hambugers...
half his bandwidth is ads! Why don't we drop that 50% of his bandwidth and see how much that saves. - gharding, on 10/12/2007, -1/+4Yeah, because employees and servers and bandwidth are FREEEE!!!
- ujangdigg, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3sadly, Youtube not in the list...
- loganz, on 10/12/2007, -2/+5same here, its a lot lower.. but it was fun going to the bank in my pajamas with $10k+ checks.. sometimes they would keep me around for 30 minutes lol
- dagnabbit, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3FTA: Digg gets "over 200,000 million page views per month"? As in, two hundred thousand million?
- arkitect, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3I think it would be as popular but it might have taken longer. I had never heard of Screensavers before I started using digg. I mean digg is just a freaking good idea that was executed really well.
- bpapa, on 10/12/2007, -4/+6Wow, you don't click on ads! You are such a renegade!
- cellis, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3Perezhilton (perezhilton.com) makes 25 thou a week on his gossip blog. And he really IS a whore. But I guess he doesn't count, since his site is funded with other adverts besides googles.
- jspalding, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Yeah, but why bother? Remember, Google make the same amount of money as those websites do when someone clicks their ad, and they get it for ALL of those websites.
- loganz, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2most users on digg are web saavy and know what are ad's and what are real links. that is why 'diff effected' sites never make a good return off of their ads.
but to compare the entire internet community with digg is wrong. there are billions of users online who dont know the difference, and they also have pop-ups, spyware, bloatware running freely on their computers - Evic, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2I was making $7K per month off of WoWCensus, until IGE shut down their entire AdWords campaign to stop me.
- shiftt, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2he just wanted people to read his article.
but it doesn't matter, that list is very far from accurate. - NapoleonGold, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Where is Fark or BoingBoing?
I would figure they would be making a decent living off their ads, but lil' Drew wasn't there.
And yes I have never even noticed the ads on DIGG, Thanks for that Kevin.
Keep making cash and PLEASE dump it into your Revisions3 bandwidth. I hate how clunky that site is but enjoy the content. - neutrascrub, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2@3ntropy
http://art-has-no-monetary-value.ytmnd.com/ You are correct - Llanowar, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2No, but I doubt it costs him even near $250k a month...
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