Digg Effect: The Top 10 Things Webmasters Should Know

[saj]

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Digg Effect: The Top 10 Things Webmasters Should Know

Many webmasters try to manipulate digg in order to gain traffic. Others fear that digg will eat up massive amounts of bandwidth and crash their servers. Having experienced both the slashdot effect (aka “being slashdotted”) and the digg effect...

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[StarLab]

Good article.

Digg users do not click ads.[1] Webmasters should stop trying to game the system to get the traffic. The increased traffic will use up your bandwidth and will risk slowing down or crashing your server.[2] In the short run, getting on the front page is more likely to cost you money than make you money if you are depending on ads for your revenue.

[1]This is so true. A buddy of mine got over 30,000 visitors in a 24hr period. His adsense revenue for that period was $1.75. My site for the same period only saw 27 visitors and I made a little over $3.00. Almost double for a fraction of the traffic.

[2]Again, true. This didn't use up all his bandwidth, but the hosting company suspended his site for 24.27% CPU usage. (He is on shared hosting which allows a maximum of 1% usage)

If you are on shared hosting, check the TOS closely for server load specs if you plan to have an option to Digg articles.

[rembrant]

When was Digg created and what is all the hype about it? I am just wondering because everything that I read is conflicting.

[horaciocs]

Yes, at first all of us think fo Digg as the solution for traffic, but the server load issue starlab stated is really important. Great article!

[datacenteronline]

Thanks for posting, this is a great article. It's so hard to get ahead on the web today but following the old school basic guidelines can make all the difference. http://www.datacenteronline.com

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[Cars-blog]

Great article and true for Social Bookmarking sites in general.

[stacy131]

I find Digg very complicated to use and rarely find a topic I can relate to. I think my time is better spent in forums and adding content to my site.