The Pros and Cons of the Digg Effect
Today I have be talking to Dean Hunt quite a lot, he writes for our other young entrepreneurs blog Retire at 21. He posted a article about Self Improvement Advice from the Devil, every few minutes he would show me his progress on getting traffic from social media. Im sure he will be bringing out a detailed post about the effects of social bookmarking, but heres my take on Digg.
Pros
– Can bring 100,000’s visitors in just one day!
– Gets you quickly indexed by search engines, a hour after hitting homepage of digg the article was picked up on Google for a very competetive term!
– Back Links, you can pick up 100’s of links to your website.
– Will increase your website value, more visitors your website gets usualy means higher priced paid for a website.
– Capturing emails, although the conversion rate is low, you still can manage to pick up a few 100 email address’s.
Cons
– Digg users rarely click on adverts
– Stay on your website for a average of 7 seconds which means no comments, or posts.
– In many cases will crash your server because of the amount of visitors flooding into your website
– It isnt targed traffic, the visitors to your website may not be interested in it at all
– They are the kind of critiques that can only say bad things about something.
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In my humble opinion, a site like digg is best only used when you know the ways and means of getting your article to the top.
For several submissions I have attempted this; but no results have come of it, it pays to know people.
I agree, with out people you are in direct contact with its impossible to get to the homepage. A fan base is always wise and a great article is a must!
OMG this is so true, I find the flood of traffic is gone in less than 30 seconds, they come, have a look, and leave! and NEVER click on ads.
I never really understood DIGG nor did I feel it gave the right amount of exposure to your articles or other web material.
Nice one though.
Cheers,
Eddie Gear
I wan to upload a picture to digg i was wondering which image hosts i can use that won’t go down in case it gets a lot of views.