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Getting Dugg and Going Viral: Link Attraction Factors
readwriteweb.com — What types of stories get lots of links after going popular? I created a database of 33,000 of the 39,000 stories that made Digg's homepage in 2007 and, using Yahoo!'s API, I tracked how many external links each URL had pointing to it. Then I analyzed a number of factors that could influence the number of links a story gets...
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- ponstars, on 02/21/2008, -2/+2Ahh....the light at the end of the tunnel!
- cobracommander, on 02/21/2008, -5/+4Hopefully my eBay store can go viral with these tips!
- dgblackout, on 02/21/2008, -0/+2hopefully not.
- phixed, on 02/21/2008, -3/+4Yet another reason for the tech community to hate sports.
- Mootabolife, on 02/21/2008, -2/+3So I take it you made yours a tech article to work with your chart?
- KevinFederline, on 02/21/2008, -0/+5The links are much more valuable than the initial influx of traffic. The typical Digg visitor is passively looking for interesting stimulus, so their clicks are low value ones. But the linkbacks help you get PageRank, which helps you find the important prospects - the *searchers* who are actively looking for your product or service.
- anteyekon4myst, on 02/21/2008, -2/+2Keyword tool: how to make word's meaningless
- tapedelay, on 02/21/2008, -2/+1this self analyzing is not as cool as digg used to be.
- nitsnipe, on 02/21/2008, -1/+5Man are we diggers obsessed with ourselves or what.
- engameddotcom, on 02/21/2008, -0/+0hehe...thats a good one:P
- Soulbow2, on 02/21/2008, -1/+2MrBabyMan:
Digg addict. - sunyata76, on 02/21/2008, -0/+1Oh gee, yet more Digg wank.
- umbriago, on 02/21/2008, -1/+5"I created a database of 33,000 of the 39,000 stories that made Digg's homepage in 2007 and, using Yahoo!'s API, I tracked how many external links each URL had pointing to it. Then I analyzed a number of factors that could influence the number of links a story gets..."
TRANSLATION: "I have far too much time on my hands." - Born4Surf, on 02/21/2008, -0/+1Nice. It would also be interesting to see stats on which words are most popular in the titles like 'awesome' or 'paris hilton!'.
Also how many of the 33,000 of the 39,000 stories were your submissions? - diggymow, on 02/21/2008, -0/+1Top twenty ways to eat bacon :
top Good 12.29% more links than the average.
twenty Very Good 80.12% more links than the average.
ways Very Good 51.88% more links than the average.
to Good 3.82% more links than the average.
eat Good 2.36% more links than the average.
bacon Very Good 33.28% more links than the average.
This title has a Very Good overall effect of 30.62% more links than the average.
Sounds about right to me, now for some bacon. - aliveforever, on 02/21/2008, -0/+0Now why didn't he analyze the keywords in the other 6,000 stories...oh wait! they had no keywords at all...just a bunch of numbers (09-f9...)
- dcmusicfusion, on 05/14/2008, -0/+1Wow......science and business get screwed.
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