What is Digg?60 Comments
- StatiK69, on 11/20/2007, -1/+16I've had a couple of my pages hit front page; almost a year later, when checking logs, I see traffic from people's profiles mainly, some from direct links from the story, which I assume is possibly from a search engine. But really, my page rank on google shot up because of the publicity. I may not be getting stellar numbers like when I was on the front page, but sure is nice to see repeat traffic and new visitors because of Digg.
- inactive, on 11/20/2007, -5/+17"I’d be ok to submit my own work. Obviously this is something normally frowned upon by the Digg community but occasionally you can get away with it."
Digg's terms of service say you can't submit what is NOT your own work.
"6. CONTENT SUBMITTED OR MADE AVAILABLE FOR INCLUSION ON THE SERVICE
By uploading, submitting or otherwise disclosing or distributing Content for display or inclusion on the Site, you represent and warrant that you own all rights in the Content and you agree that the Content will be subject to the Creative Commons Public Domain License, available at http://creativecommons.org/licenses/publicdomain/. For clarity, the foregoing does not apply to the Content on any external sites to which the Services link." - heysuburbia, on 11/20/2007, -1/+13My experience with the Digg Effect:
I did (what I thought) was a cool experiment and dubbed it "The Wii Sports Experiment" on my site WiiNintendo.net. I announced it on my site and submitted it through Digg. That's all the "PR" I did.
Well, it hit the front page of Digg and soon hit TV stations and international press. My site was linked from 2 dozen of the top sites in the world and never succumbed to the "Digg Effect", not even a slow down after 4,000+ Diggs and to top it off I was using WordPress. I tried to map out the traffic and media appearances (starting with Digg), here:
http://wiinintendo.net/2007/01/30/wii-sports-exper ...
My subsequent posts about the experiment got onto the front page of Digg and I had new fan base. I got more writers and started a forum. The site has been growing ever since.
At the peak of my sites "reach" at was under 15,000 on the Alexa rating. WordPress and all. - inactive, on 11/20/2007, -0/+8Well that's the point of my comment. All Digg members break the TOS and complain about people who don't.
- Skitzzo, on 11/20/2007, -0/+8It's probably someone landing on Digg from a search engine. Almost any story submitted here ranks well for words and phrases in the title.
- InsaneMachine, on 11/20/2007, -0/+7I agree with Skitzzo here. I get tons of old digg pages through google. And sometimes they are quite relevant.
- mechnoch, on 11/20/2007, -1/+7I'm pretty sure that this section just means that the text under the headline, and probably the headline itself, should be written by you, the submitter. It doesn't mean that the page you linked to has to be written by you.
"For clarity, the foregoing does not apply to the Content on any external sites to which the Services link."
So you're only breaking TOS if you plagiarize the headline and article description. Makes sense to me! - mvandemar, on 11/20/2007, -1/+5I forgot Digg even *had* an rss...
- jimbocook, on 11/20/2007, -3/+6taron, I'm not sure if this is what you mean but I have a couple pages that still get an occasional referral from Digg months after they were submitted. I assume it's just somebody going through the profile pages and clicking what looks interesting.
- scabbers, on 11/20/2007, -2/+5A blog about blogging that's an experiment about being able to live off blogging... about blogging.
- KirbyMeister, on 11/20/2007, -0/+2The Digg Effect Effect
- GeeksAreSexy, on 11/20/2007, -1/+3This lasting effect is caused by having a site of authority pointing to you. I’ve been on BoingBoing, MSNBC and several others, and the result was very similar.
- Sinudeity, on 11/20/2007, -0/+2Just think how many visits his site will get now.
All he is doing, is seeing the effect of one more
digg effect on his project. - yellowsnowcone, on 11/20/2007, -1/+3what is described in this post is not peculiar to Digg ... all content on the web will experience residual traffic after its initial publishing date due to search engines ... I work in online newspaper publishing, and I can tell you that 70% of the traffic for a particular piece of content is generated after the content is two months old
- mapwii, on 11/20/2007, -2/+4It does make a difference. I run http://mapwii.com and my site made it to the front page twice. Both of those times I added nearly 1000 members a day, and while traffic dropped considerably afterwards, it stayed higher than it was before the articles because there were now more people to "spread the word". If you have a site that people will want to tell their friends about, the long lasting effects will be more powerful than the Digg article itself.
- fcukbush, on 11/20/2007, -0/+2we can expect your comment to be dugg up then...
- BlogEx, on 11/20/2007, -1/+2Dude, RTFA.
- heysuburbia, on 11/21/2007, -0/+1I only had adbrite ads running until 6 months ago when I was contacted by Gorilla Nation, an ad agency. I generate anywhere from 100 to 700 a month. Those skin designs like Naruto you see generate a flat rate of 2,000$ for a 3 week campaign. Hope that helps.
- sisyphus, on 11/21/2007, -0/+1an iphone story i was following got around 75000 unique visits in a day. so maybe you want to try a true techie story next.
- BlogEx, on 11/20/2007, -1/+2I understand what Digg's TOS say, but I also know what Digg members say and they don't look kindly upon people submitting their own work.
- totville, on 11/20/2007, -4/+5I like the entire blog where this article appeared. I'm subbing to the RSS.
- superheroboy, on 11/20/2007, -2/+3I read Infendo, The Tanooki, and The Sneeze regularly because an article from them made the front page. Leveraging a front-page article into regular readers should be a no-brainer.
- plbland, on 11/20/2007, -1/+2Google Page Rank Effect.
- hawridger, on 11/20/2007, -1/+2Ah, the irony!
- fak3r, on 11/20/2007, -0/+1This is exactly what I thought of when I hit this guy's site months ago. It's like the old Spacemen 3 album, "Taking drugs to make music to take drugs to make music..." I think my "blogs" deal with many different interests, so I'm not going to get the traffic like someone who only blogs about blogging, and how to make a living off of it...it's a pipe dream for many I'm sure.
- inactive, on 11/20/2007, -0/+1That sentence means that you don't have to own the material to which the site you submitted links to.
- searcade, on 11/20/2007, -0/+1it isnt loading for me and hasnt since before it was on the homepage.
- inactive, on 11/21/2007, -0/+1I am intelligent in real life, I just act like a complete dumbass on digg, because I can get away with it!
Seriously, YOU try making a backdoor/trojan that's completely undetected by the top 30 virus scanners! - g0dzilla, on 11/20/2007, -0/+1Stumbleupon.com certainly has lasting effects (positive). I've been running http://wikindex.com for a few months now, and everytime we get 'stumbled' by a major player, we see a permanent upward shift in our traffic of 10-15%. Websites, just like anything, are habitual. People go back to the same websites if they've been there at least twice. So, while we have yet to make the digg frontpage, I can say for certain that sites like digg do give a long-term halo effect.
- DrunkAdmin, on 11/20/2007, -0/+1but see the traffic graph of google analytics...
- onemillion, on 11/20/2007, -0/+1Will my penis fall off from the 'lasting effects of being dugg'?
- Antyrael, on 11/20/2007, -2/+3No, that's not what it means at all. From the same TOS:
'Digg may offer to provide certain services and content, as described more fully on the site, ("Services")'
Then, look at the sentence again:
'For clarity, the foregoing does not apply to the Content on any external sites to which the Services link.'
So, the foregoing (ie. you must have all rights to the Content) doesn't apply to the Content on any external site to which Digg's Services link. This means that any external link you submit to Digg doesn't have to be owned by you, which means mechnoch was right. - ignorance0, on 11/20/2007, -0/+1I'd say he also gets help from his domain being called the same thing as the search word, i.e. hilarious names . com. While not a promotion per se, his traffic isn't coming solely from digg's effect in my opinion.
- HaltingPoint, on 11/20/2007, -0/+1I understand if you can't share exact figures, but would you mind sharing some rough numbers from revenue generated by ads from that kind of traffic? Your site has an interesting ad layout (particularly the Naruto stuff) and I'm really curious how profitable that kind of traffic can be.
- fcukbush, on 11/20/2007, -1/+2digg needs a digg section.
- Tallon29, on 11/20/2007, -2/+2What this country needs is socialized Digg insurance to help pay for server meltdown and excessive bandwidth bills.
Tallon29 in '08! - BlogEx, on 11/20/2007, -1/+1what was so impressive to me is that this is all from one single story hitting digg's front page. There weren't any other updates and not other marketing or promotion and yet the site ranks well in the search engines and gets some decent traffic.
- BlogEx, on 11/20/2007, -1/+1Site's still up for me, and the story is now on the home page.
- Hawkeye05, on 11/20/2007, -1/+1Its like radiation, a site hit strongly enough wont be habitabe for hundreds of years like the chernobyl area.
Ah the Digg/Slashdot/Reddit effect Its beautiful and more powerful than the storm botnet.. - victorycig, on 11/20/2007, -1/+1It's the "long tail." Not a new concept at all.
- jrseney, on 11/20/2007, -1/+1I think the term he used in this article fits best - the "Lasting Digg Effect"
- BlogEx, on 11/20/2007, -1/+1It's a case study reporting the stats and results of a digg, it's not at all about generating traffic.
- inactive, on 11/20/2007, -3/+3buried for being another content-less article about generating content/traffic. Lame.
- xenlab, on 11/20/2007, -1/+1Idiot. It means that any content you put on the site belongs to you and it doesn't apply to either you or digg for the links out!
- superheroboy, on 11/20/2007, -1/+1I read Infendo, The Tanooki, and The Sneeze regularly because an article from them made the front page. Leveraging a front-page article into regular readers should be a no-brainer.
- smek2, on 11/20/2007, -2/+2What an idiot. The author of this article writes "About 6 months ago an idea for a great article sprang to mind"... The great idea? An article with the name "10 worst names ever". He thought it a great idea to publish yet another mindless top 10 list, this time about names you shouldn't name your baby after. And that's the same guy who want to tell us about the Digg Effect or online marketing or whatever. These days it's hard to tell if the blog owner is a teenager what with all these nice design templates. But if you take a close look at the actual content... oh well.
- Sinudeity, on 11/20/2007, -0/+0I just clicked your link. Thats another 10% increase in traffic :)
- Duggan360, on 11/20/2007, -2/+1It is wonderful being called dug :) lol
- antlerboy, on 11/20/2007, -2/+1i was expecting the site to be down...
- BlogEx, on 11/20/2007, -6/+5um... thanks, I mean I appreciate it, but not sure why you thought you needed to announce it on digg lol
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