howtogeek.com — Digg.com is the absolute biggest source of traffic that most content authors are going to ever see. The ?Digg Effect? can cripple your site within an hour, so it?s nice to know if somebody has submitted one of your articles to Digg. Here?s a quick and dirty trick on how to set up an aler
Feb 26, 2007 View in Crawl 4
ebob9Feb 26, 2007
I would think that a creative referrer script would be more useful.You could script a sequence where you are notified, track what pages are linking to your site.Heck, you could even get more advanced, and automagically redirect to a cache (coral/duggmirror) specific content if your site gets hit referred from digg.That is, if your site survives long enough...
bacchus101Feb 26, 2007
Maybe I am missing something here (most likely) but I am not finding any results and I am searching for the base URL of this story:<a class="user" href="http://roadrulesrevenge.com/Drupal/images/wwwhowtogeekcom02.jpg">http://roadrulesrevenge.com/Drupal/images/wwwhowtogeekcom02.jpg</a>
nbl9999Feb 26, 2007
Get a life. Gosh.
Closed AccountFeb 26, 2007
"By doing what? Removing all images, CSS, formatting, background information, content and footers?"More likely by chaching dynamic pages (PHP/Perl/Ruby/ASP etc) to static HTML pages - Badly written PHP/MySQL sites make up a majority of the sites that go down - Serving a bunch of images/CSS/text uses very little CPU time and upload speed, and depending on the site of the images, very little bandwidth (a few 5x5pixels images will add up to < 1kb) - Most of the reasons sites go down is because their making 200 queries to MySQL on every page load, or not closing MySQL connections down once the page is done..
tamarFeb 27, 2007
The tip would be even better if it alerted you when your site has hit the main page. Being Dugg (with 1-20 Diggs) does nothing to alert you of server woes if it never makes the front page.
Closed AccountFeb 28, 2007
can you say Yahoo Pipes? far superior to anything Digg lets you do to set up a custom RSS.
techtractionMar 2, 2007
Excellent tip! The simplicity of the tip only adds to its overall value. I think a good compliment to this tip is something I've read in other articles detailing how to add some PHP code to your site in order to redirect visits to cached versions of your content. I don't recall the details or the specific articles but basically the code helps prevent your site from falling to its knees under the "Digg" effect. Combine this update tip with the PHP cache tip and not only will you know when a potential onslaught is on its way but you just might survive the storm as well.