Comments on: Why I’m Not Digging Digg

By: Clement

Clement — Wed, 30 Jan 2008 09:24:14 +0000

@ Ritu: I agree with you completely.Digg sucks.StumbleUpon rocks.SU brings loads and loads of traffic even for new blogs.My traffic stats show that SU brings me far more traffic than all the search engines combined.

By: Paul

Paul — Sun, 06 Jan 2008 23:18:26 +0000

I’ve been submitting some articles to Digg lately, both mine and others that I know. While I can’t see other people’s stats on the matter, I can definitely say that I’ve not been successful receiving much Digg traffic, but if someone Stumbles the article it receives much more traffic from there (eg might get 10 Digg viewers compared to 70 Stumble viewers).

Mostly the problem seems to be quality articles that I see by other authors are drowned out by spam in the “upcoming” section. I agree with Scott W here:
http://www.wrevenue.com/2007/11/07/hey-digg-your-upcoming-model-blows-heres-how-to-fix-it/

By: Ritu

Ritu — Sun, 06 Jan 2008 22:58:01 +0000

I prefer StumbleUpon over Digg simply because it brings traffic that is more consistent than DIGG.

By: hellcola

hellcola — Sun, 06 Jan 2008 17:02:21 +0000

I got some good traffic from digg, but well, it was like a one time thing, no real readers, so, I moved to stumbleupon as well

By: Michael Beasley

Michael Beasley — Sun, 06 Jan 2008 15:37:52 +0000

Yes, people are gaming Digg now, but it will level out the bigger it gets.

By: Jeff B

Jeff B — Sun, 06 Jan 2008 12:00:44 +0000

First off I found this article from my Twitter account. I am new to the social bookmarking or linking or whatever the official term is these days. I have been blogging for years on a private personal basis. I decided to take my website public and main stream. I have been under the impression that any traffic is good traffic. Reading your post about Digg makes me wonder if traffic is traffic?

I have been using Entrecard (http://entrecard.com/details/3270 )and like your Digg I have been getting a lot of traffic but not sure if it is good traffic. A lot of folks just click through to add there card. I look forward to seeing what others say about your post.

I must say as an added not about social bookmarking. Again, found you on Twitter (admiral70) have never been to your blog but will be adding you to my Google reader. Hummmmmmmm

–JB

By: Russell Wagner

Russell Wagner — Sun, 06 Jan 2008 11:30:39 +0000

Hello Deborah, I'd first like to say I agree 100 % with your post. It seems now-a-days most bloggers care about digg. Me personally, I could care less if digg didn't exist.

You made a very good point there, digg traffic is major, but most traffic isn't returning. It is better to receive returning traffic, and build a larger reader base than to just get a day or two of high rocketing traffic. Very nice post

By: Sheri Jo

Sheri Jo — Sun, 06 Jan 2008 11:03:45 +0000

Hi Deborah,

I was so happy to read your article about the various social bookmarking sites. I have been spending a ridiculous amount of time trying to figure out which of these sites are worth my time. Your article really put things in perspective for me. Thank you SO MUCH. It's so refreshing when I run across (I just couldn't say "Stumble Upon" lol! )an intelligent, well written article (and your Blog!) that cuts through the B.S. and tells it like it is. So again, I just wanted to say THANK YOU and tell you that your hard work is very much appreciated!

Sheri Jo