Comments on: Pay For Diggs : Subvert & Profit

By: Jalali

Jalali — Mon, 07 Jul 2008 19:57:29 +0000

We offer the same type of thing, but it is totally organic:

http://www.yovia.com

By: Khalid Hajsaleh

Khalid Hajsaleh — Mon, 23 Apr 2007 17:46:41 +0000

Hi Loren,

Interesting blog. Although the traffic from digg is not targeted, I do not think that the value of getting on the first page of digg is in the traffic. The value is in the number of link backs a site can get when getting on the first page.

What are the risks associated with paying for diggs for a business? I see little risk except for the possibly wasted couple of hundred dollars.

Khalid

By: HENRY MUNEVAR

HENRY MUNEVAR — Sun, 08 Apr 2007 06:15:29 +0000

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By: Andrew Goodrick

Andrew Goodrick — Sat, 07 Apr 2007 14:32:38 +0000

I agree that Digg traffic is quick burn, and probably not very high quality. It is important to note, however, that the Digg homepage has Google PR8. And my guess is that Google indexes Digg quite often. Only $75 to get a link from a PR8 site would be a great deal (plus your link would go into the Digg archives).

Now, I’m not speaking to the ethics of this idea at all, or to whether the company can actually deliver as promised. But from a purely business standpoint, I would say this is a pretty attractive proposition.

By: SEO'Brien

SEO'Brien — Wed, 04 Apr 2007 17:54:25 +0000

Digg This!

The interesting question is the degree to which Digg should allow this or find a solution of its own.

By: Ahmed Bilal

Ahmed Bilal — Wed, 04 Apr 2007 12:11:51 +0000

Personally, I think that no matter how hard you try to ‘proof’ a system, someone will come along and find a way to break it.

This is the problem with using social democracy (a scalable solution) to determine good and bad. The optimal solution (manual review) would be better, but its not scalable.

My advice – profit from the social networks, but don’t be bound to them as people once were to search engines.

And use these services – honestly, how is this different from asking your friends to digg a submission? Ethics are involved when you ask this service to promote a crap submission. Quality submissions will only benefit from this.

By: Gerard McGarry

Gerard McGarry — Wed, 04 Apr 2007 08:50:47 +0000

Admittedly, my social media marketing skills are not wonderful, I’ve yet to manage a successful campaign on Digg. I do wonder though about the quality of visitor.

Yes, you can get to the front page, yes your pageviews will be impressive on that day, but will those visitors convert on your site? I don’t know.

By: Loren Baker, Editor

Loren Baker, Editor — Wed, 04 Apr 2007 03:43:01 +0000

“Thats a great point, many internet marketers could be sucked in to this service from the pure volume of traffic it ‘could’ generate, but where is the quality?”

It’s a quick sell Matthew, that’s one aspect of SMM which we’ll all have to find a way to distance ourselves from.

It’s not just a flavor of the month my friend. But as most new eMarketing opportunities arise, we find ourselves bombarded with such services that try to position it as so.

In time, the pay per ‘action’ campaigns will find themselves in the same dusty and questionable shelves as snake oiled spam, unfortunately casting a negative shadow against the practice, which parallels the early days of questionable SEO; something the industry has yet to shake from its credible reputation.

By: Hawaii Pictures

Hawaii Pictures — Wed, 04 Apr 2007 03:26:23 +0000

Two words – Honey Pot

By: Matthew Elshaw

Matthew Elshaw — Wed, 04 Apr 2007 03:15:21 +0000

“I like the way they try to appeal to traditional and naive Internet marketers with the ‘cost effectiveness’ lingo.”

Thats a great point, many internet marketers could be sucked in to this service from the pure volume of traffic it ‘could’ generate, but where is the quality?