Is it just me or is Digg a complete waste of time? Okay, there’s no doubt that if you have a unique story, that it can generate tons of traffic to your website. Let’s be realistic though, how many of them visitors are actually going to buy your product or service?
Just think of this scenario – you submit a story to digg, tons of traffic comes to your site (yay!) but you run out of bandwidth and you cannot pay the bandwidth bill for 48 hours because it’s the weekend, so your site is then out of action for that period, potentially loosing, thousands of visitors.
Think about it before you submit that story to Digg..
Yeah, that’s true. But nobody submits to digg with the thought in mind that they will profit from that crowd. They do it for the links when bloggers pick up the story. Thats the only thing one should expect from Digg -> natural links.
Thats a good point.
I never thought about the link/bloggers element of it. I don’t go to Digg though to find news, it’s very much based on technology and I write mainly about travel (apart from this blog)
Alsuran has a good point
It’s ok if your webhost are digg proof, like media temple.
I submit every one of my posts to digg and a few other social sites. Nearly half of my traffic comes from Digg and reddit. Being a newer blog, it’s the only thing I’ve found that lets people know that I’m out here.
I agree with Alsuran for the most part: digg would be great for generating decent amount of backlinks, but there are tons of people that will stuff a page with adsense, and hope for clicks.. nothing more.
I digg a lot, but it seems useless for me! Am I writing bad stories?
I guess I’m the only one that visits Digg for the news.
Lookaa, I imagine it’s a matter of submitting stuff that people haven’t seen before (or isn’t a duplicate of another story) or that hooks them into coming to your website.