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So you write a great post, and someone diggs it. You decide to send a shout out to your digg friends asking for a digg for your story, hoping that you will move the coveted front page of Digg. Will your marketing effort land you on the front page and the massive amount of traffic that follows popular stories on Digg?

First of all, if you are banking on your friends’ diggs to help you out, then you need a lot of friends. Making the front page of Digg will take a lot of diggs. Here are some numbers from a week’s worth of Digg’s most popular stories with the first number representing the popular stories of the day and the second being the least amount of diggs for a story:

March 27 - 105 diggs, least digg - 240
March 26 - 78 -least diggs - 266
march 25 - 95 -least 332
March 24 - 71 - least 277
march 23 - 61 - least 350
march 22 -42 - least 302
march 21 - 76 least 263
March 20 - 89 least 204

So, just like in high school, there is a small percentage of stories that actually become popular on Digg. While a popular story will bring you a lot of traffic, it will take either a lot of work or sheer luck to have it make the popular list.

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Posted in Social Media Marketing on April 8th, 2008

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8 Responses to “Is Digg Worth It?”

  1. Article Submit Says:
    April 28th, 2008 at 2:29 pm

    Digg’s definitely worth it if your content is Digg-able. However, it’s sad to say that only tech-related content can get noticed by Digg-ers.

  2. I love to dance Says:
    October 28th, 2008 at 10:05 am

    Yes, of course Digg is great….

    I love Digg

  3. Merrell Says:
    November 24th, 2008 at 4:10 am

    Get your site on the main page of Digg, and then see your server go down due to high traffic. That is called Digg effect. I love it.

  4. Spyware Blockers Says:
    November 27th, 2008 at 3:49 am

    Though digg or any other social bookmarking website sends the traffic but it never ever gets converts.

  5. Spyware Blockers Says:
    November 27th, 2008 at 3:50 am

    Recently one of my site received thousands of hits from digg but it was just waste of bandwidth and nothing.

  6. Spyware Blockers Says:
    November 27th, 2008 at 3:52 am

    Thats why the StumbleUpon sells its traffic so cheaply

  7. Spyware Blockers Says:
    November 27th, 2008 at 3:53 am

    Aaron wall ( seobook fame ) is not too convinced with this form of traffic.

  8. AngryJed Says:
    February 16th, 2009 at 7:36 am

    Waste of time for me, nobody diggs my stuff. I used to digg other peoples stuff and do the shoutouts - just took me more time I could be writing.

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