Avoid Targeting Digg Traffic

01 Feb

Posted by Sunny as Internet

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Some people try their best to get traffic from Digg, others don’t even bother getting their content listed on that site. The reason for that is, on average, Digg users spend around 4 seconds on a website when referred from Digg.

Not only that Digg users will not give you much ad clicks. I have gotten many users from Digg, and I read the marketing on Digg of other websites and they all agree that Digg users are not the best traffic for revenue.

Digg users are mostly for videos and quick glimpse of great news. Digg is getting a negative response from alot of people for some of their actions. My favorite blog, JohnChow.com, was banned from Digg for some weird stupid reason.

Digg is also very bad for blogs. They don’t help many blogs gain anything.

Due to Digg’s arrogant actions, few Digg clones were created like Blog-Buzz.com and Technorati WTF.

So, save your time and energy of marketing; avoid Digg and look else where for great traffic.

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2 Responses

Damon Z

February 2nd, 2007 at 8:05 pm

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Combining this post and the last one on facebook. I’d like to say that I agree with you, these pure play community websites are on the road to perdition… The main reason why is because those websites target the most fickle demographic there is.

Teenagers and young adults are very trendy. Once MySpace/Facebook becomes to mainstream they’ll want to move on to something else. Unlike Ebay with its feedback rating and unique access to the biggest auction market, there are very little barriers in pure play community websites to keep people from leaving…

In addition, sooner or later, people on these sites will lead more demanding lives. With a full time job, student loans, mortgages and car payments, they will have less time to spend on online communities…

I think what will happen is niche community websites will survive. On the other, mainstream ones will go Highlander, in the end only one will be left.

Did anyone say Friendster or ICQ?
Sunny

February 3rd, 2007 at 10:05 pm

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yep…