Comments on: How I Doubled My Digg Popular Stories Stat

By: What time should it appear? | Broadcasting Brain

What time should it appear? | Broadcasting Brain — Mon, 05 May 2008 10:01:30 +0000

[...] I know that in my own experience, I used to submit Digg stories early in the morning (my time) and I seemed to have better success when I submitted stories at different times of day. [...]

By: brainadmin

brainadmin — Fri, 07 Mar 2008 01:10:49 +0000

@Kevin Dugan - I’m completely fascinated by the whole concept of “going viral”. The sad thing is that for every successful meme, craze, or innovation, there are probably thousands of other worthy pieces of content that never see the light of day due to human bandwidth limitations (ugly phrase, that.) There’s an interesting “chicken and egg” scenario here - creating good content vs. being recognized as a good content creator. Ultimately, creating good content should be the best path to success, but I wonder how many other successful creators would have emerged with the right exposure.

By: Kevin Dugan

Kevin Dugan — Fri, 07 Mar 2008 00:44:17 +0000

It would seem that the more you try to get on digg, the less you focus on the story. Kind of like trying to make a viral video vs. making a video that goes viral. Focus on the quality and one would hope the rest follows suit.

Yeah, this would read stronger if I was part of the big digg. But from personal experience my traffic flows from my focus on good content vs. gaming the system.

Either way, interesting post. Thanks!

By: brainadmin

brainadmin — Fri, 07 Mar 2008 00:36:57 +0000

@Warren Whitlock - agreed, I think social media’s value is in making those connections, which is why it will be hard for large businesses to use it successfully.

By: Warren Whitlock

Warren Whitlock — Thu, 06 Mar 2008 23:16:58 +0000

So many of the pages I see on Digg are designed to look like something interesting… many are like tabloid stories.. big promise, little meat.

And the traffic is about the same.. big numbers, few doing much more than looking at the story and then moving on.

The promise of social media is real connections with real people.. not gross numbers of eyeballs.

By: brainadmin

brainadmin — Thu, 06 Mar 2008 22:07:13 +0000

@Wayne - can you comment further about these secondary sources?

By: Wayne Smallman

Wayne Smallman — Thu, 06 Mar 2008 20:12:24 +0000

The people I know that are successful on Digg practically live out of it, with loads of similarly Digg-wedded friends at their disposal.

My experiences of getting to the front page of Digg has been that the secondary traffic sources are more valuable than those visiting from Digg itself…

By: brainadmin

brainadmin — Thu, 06 Mar 2008 15:48:41 +0000

@Kristen - of course my stories are sucking today - it comes and it goes

@SpostareDuro - load time is a real pain at times, I agree. I really like StumbleUpon as well. Mixx interests me at times, but it comes and goes.

@Michael Lodispoto - no question that Mixx sends a small fraction of Digg’s traffic, but that’s not always a bad thing.

By: Michael Lodispoto

Michael Lodispoto — Thu, 06 Mar 2008 15:42:37 +0000

The volume as Dosh and many others have said isn’t there for Mixx. At Digg you can get to the front page and get 50,000 hits at least. Mixx, maybe you’re lucky with 200 at most?
Digg is the King of social media.

By: spostareduro

spostareduro — Thu, 06 Mar 2008 15:30:40 +0000

Hey Mark..I’m glad to hear you are fairing well over in Diggerland. Me personally? I can’t stand the load time..You know me, I’m a true blue Stumbleupon friend for sure..Oh and the newest obsession would be Mixx..But I’m sure these tips can be applied at these places as well. Have fun doing it!