How to sustain the digg effect?

[champ_rock]

hi

1. when i digg my story then i usually get about 40 hits for one day.. and after that NO hit.. can u please tell if this diggg efect last for a day only? or how to elongate this effect

2. is adsense against this kind of digg generated traffic??

 

[Goob]

You'll only really suffer the "Digg effect" if your story makes it to the front page. If that happens, you can expect much more traffic then just 40 hits It's been my experience that much of the traffic doesn't stick, however, unless the site that's dugg already has a lot of other content that digg users might find interesting as well.

And I may be wrong, but I've never seen anything stating that adsense is against Digg generated traffic. In fact, there are adsense ads on Digg itself, so I doubt they view down upon the site!

 

[user-7256]

Search digg for this topic; many front-page stories have been made regarding this.

 

[labrocca]

I sysadmin a site that has reached top story in a category at last twice now. It's a nightmare with about 5k-6k users hitting you server all at one time. You are very lucky if your server doesn't buckle under the pressure or your host doesn't suspend your account. I am pretty sure you can get 25k-100k visits within an hour.

 

[Damion]

I read an article on Shoemoney.com some time back that describes a good and easy solution for the server stress sites like Digg can cause.

Any other solutions are also welcome to be shared guys

 

[cache]

what is a digg, sorry if it is obvious for you.

 

[Redleg]

www.digg.com

 

[RegisterRants]

Search digg for this topic; many front-page stories have been made regarding this.

Oh what irony

 

[cache]

thanks for the link.

So I just have to make up a story and post it on that site?

www.digg.com

 

[YesBrilliant]

thanks for the link.

So I just have to make up a story and post it on that site?

I'd like to know the answer to that as well.

 

[champ_rock]

ok one more thing, does more diggs mean more traffic?

 

[Damion]

Digg.com is a site where you can submit your stories/articles, your own or that you have stumbled upon.
Your article/story can be seen in the "Upcoming stories" section by Digg.com visitors/users and if they like what they read and find it interesting enough to make this story/article appear on the front page they vote for the story/article by clicking on the digg button.

Thus more diggs (votes) the more chances there are it appears on the front page.

So how many diggs for the submission to appear on the front page? Digg uses a automated algorithm based on their user base to determine if the page "deserves" to make it to the front page.

So if your site is already on the front page and i have seen submissions with 66 digs on the front page and submissions with 1000+ diggs does this mean more traffic?

Could very well be since more diggs means more people voted so they had to visit the site to make their judgment even though this is not true at all times, digg users tend to digg a submission just because it made the front page in the first place or the title was attractive enough to digg/vote for it.

Making up stories is probably not getting your submission on the front page unless you have something interesting to say.
Unless if you can make something up that is captivating and exciting, educational, outrageous, shocking, revealing....and so on...

 

[tetrapak]

Once someone wrote a story that included my site, i got 4-5k people that day, and a few thousand on the upcoming days. Nice traffic, but i got similar traffic from much more unknown sites..

 

[Damion]

Yeah, the traffic can stick for a while if the content is sticky enough. Plus you could have more regular visitors from a submission that made it to the front page.