Comments on: The Good and Bad of the Almighty Digg.com http://www.searchenginejournal.com/the-good-and-bad-of-the-almighty-diggcom/5948/ Latest Search Engine News from the Search Engine Journal Sun, 21 Mar 2010 14:34:20 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=abc hourly 1 By: brent http://www.searchenginejournal.com/the-good-and-bad-of-the-almighty-diggcom/5948/comment-page-1/#comment-704356 brent Thu, 08 Nov 2007 00:17:01 +0000 http://www.searchenginejournal.com/the-good-and-bad-of-the-almighty-diggcom/5948/#comment-704356 FyUCK THIS SHIT NIGGA! FyUCK THIS SHIT NIGGA!

]]> By: mark http://www.searchenginejournal.com/the-good-and-bad-of-the-almighty-diggcom/5948/comment-page-1/#comment-704335 mark Wed, 07 Nov 2007 23:46:49 +0000 http://www.searchenginejournal.com/the-good-and-bad-of-the-almighty-diggcom/5948/#comment-704335 lol, Digg this article up :) http://www.digg.com/tech_news/The_Good_and_Bad_of_the_Almighty_Digg_com lol, Digg this article up :)

http://www.digg.com/tech_news/The_Good_and_Bad_of_the_Almighty_Digg_com

]]> By: Adam Maywald http://www.searchenginejournal.com/the-good-and-bad-of-the-almighty-diggcom/5948/comment-page-1/#comment-703725 Adam Maywald Wed, 07 Nov 2007 17:38:17 +0000 http://www.searchenginejournal.com/the-good-and-bad-of-the-almighty-diggcom/5948/#comment-703725 @Brent Csutoras I have customers who use Digg because of the traffic. Yes, the links are a majority of the benefit, as those are the driving force behind the rankings, but when a client has a business model of selling impressions, Digg and Stumble traffic help considerably when selling to advertisers. I know of several instances where that traffic saved them from overselling impressions. @Brent Csutoras

I have customers who use Digg because of the traffic. Yes, the links are a majority of the benefit, as those are the driving force behind the rankings, but when a client has a business model of selling impressions, Digg and Stumble traffic help considerably when selling to advertisers. I know of several instances where that traffic saved them from overselling impressions.

]]> By: Loren Baker, Editor http://www.searchenginejournal.com/the-good-and-bad-of-the-almighty-diggcom/5948/comment-page-1/#comment-702454 Loren Baker, Editor Wed, 07 Nov 2007 04:52:46 +0000 http://www.searchenginejournal.com/the-good-and-bad-of-the-almighty-diggcom/5948/#comment-702454 No worries Brent. Being a reader of this site, you are within your full rights to compliment an author on their piece, critique them, or rip them a new ... well, rip the post apart :) Without feedback like yours, we would not have the reader insight to find the motivation to deliver better content. Thanks! This is what the comment box is for :) LB No worries Brent. Being a reader of this site, you are within your full rights to compliment an author on their piece, critique them, or rip them a new … well, rip the post apart :)

Without feedback like yours, we would not have the reader insight to find the motivation to deliver better content. Thanks! This is what the comment box is for :)

LB

]]> By: Brent Csutoras http://www.searchenginejournal.com/the-good-and-bad-of-the-almighty-diggcom/5948/comment-page-1/#comment-702449 Brent Csutoras Wed, 07 Nov 2007 04:42:49 +0000 http://www.searchenginejournal.com/the-good-and-bad-of-the-almighty-diggcom/5948/#comment-702449 Loren, Agreed. It just wasn't said like that at all. I can read between lines and if i felt that was being said i would never reply. Sujan is cool too and it is not a personal thing but i just felt the article didn't properly portray the real situation on Digg. What you say does a much better job of that. Cheers, Brent Loren,

Agreed. It just wasn’t said like that at all. I can read between lines and if i felt that was being said i would never reply.

Sujan is cool too and it is not a personal thing but i just felt the article didn’t properly portray the real situation on Digg.

What you say does a much better job of that.

Cheers,
Brent

]]> By: Loren Baker, Editor http://www.searchenginejournal.com/the-good-and-bad-of-the-almighty-diggcom/5948/comment-page-1/#comment-702442 Loren Baker, Editor Wed, 07 Nov 2007 04:38:14 +0000 http://www.searchenginejournal.com/the-good-and-bad-of-the-almighty-diggcom/5948/#comment-702442 Brent, Agreed, in my Digg success stories I've had relevant blog posts covered on and linked to from LifeHacker and Move.com ... but those superduper quality links (not to mention Delicious Popular and Stumble Buzz) have been about 10% of the incoming links. I think what Sujan is trying to say is that.. yes, Digg will bring you links, but not all of those links are going to be of high value. Sure, one story which is relevant, written well, has open comments and a thought provoking title and description on Digg will bring in a lot of links from Digg aggregators and mirror sites, and after time those links will not be worth much more than a freebie guest list site is now, but the gem, the gem is the major blogs and news sites which monitor Digg... especially the niche channels outside of Technology News or Offbeat News .. that bring the gold. On the other hand, even though the aggregation sites and mirror blogs don't have super link value, they still have as much link value as most other sites on the web... and lots of incoming links from other Digg-esque sites and sites which linked to stories that the mirror sites ran when the original site's server was down. That juice gets passed over, and it's better than nothing and can be lead to a site inching over its competition in the SERPS. So, to sum it all up. I think ScubaSewj is saying that Digg is great, but it may not result in the flock of golden geese many make it out to be... but those golden eggs my friend, and the geese do still exist, if worked correctly. Brent,

Agreed, in my Digg success stories I’ve had relevant blog posts covered on and linked to from LifeHacker and Move.com … but those superduper quality links (not to mention Delicious Popular and Stumble Buzz) have been about 10% of the incoming links. I think what Sujan is trying to say is that.. yes, Digg will bring you links, but not all of those links are going to be of high value.

Sure, one story which is relevant, written well, has open comments and a thought provoking title and description on Digg will bring in a lot of links from Digg aggregators and mirror sites, and after time those links will not be worth much more than a freebie guest list site is now, but the gem, the gem is the major blogs and news sites which monitor Digg… especially the niche channels outside of Technology News or Offbeat News .. that bring the gold.

On the other hand, even though the aggregation sites and mirror blogs don’t have super link value, they still have as much link value as most other sites on the web… and lots of incoming links from other Digg-esque sites and sites which linked to stories that the mirror sites ran when the original site’s server was down.

That juice gets passed over, and it’s better than nothing and can be lead to a site inching over its competition in the SERPS.

So, to sum it all up. I think ScubaSewj is saying that Digg is great, but it may not result in the flock of golden geese many make it out to be… but those golden eggs my friend, and the geese do still exist, if worked correctly.

]]> By: Brian http://www.searchenginejournal.com/the-good-and-bad-of-the-almighty-diggcom/5948/comment-page-1/#comment-702410 Brian Wed, 07 Nov 2007 03:49:31 +0000 http://www.searchenginejournal.com/the-good-and-bad-of-the-almighty-diggcom/5948/#comment-702410 I was an avid user of digg for a couple years, but recently left because of the lack of community and the negative attitude of the majority of the people. I ended up finding my new home at http://www.tagsum.com where they reward contributors with nice incentives like revenue share. I was an avid user of digg for a couple years, but recently left because of the lack of community and the negative attitude of the majority of the people. I ended up finding my new home at http://www.tagsum.com where they reward contributors with nice incentives like revenue share.

]]> By: Brent Csutoras http://www.searchenginejournal.com/the-good-and-bad-of-the-almighty-diggcom/5948/comment-page-1/#comment-702278 Brent Csutoras Wed, 07 Nov 2007 00:32:34 +0000 http://www.searchenginejournal.com/the-good-and-bad-of-the-almighty-diggcom/5948/#comment-702278 I honestly have to disagree on a few points. Traffic is not the reason people use Digg. As you mention most people feel the traffic is not good and thus use Digg purely for the backlinks that it gives. Speaking of links I normally get quite a bit more than 30 links from a successful campaign on Digg. As far as quality goes i have received numerous links from very valuable links from Digg campaigns. Like Science Digest, Gizmodo, Boing Boing, Engadget, MSN, and much much more. You further mention that your traffic from Digg is low quality. I hear that a lot. The traffic on Digg is much like anyone who would read this blog in the fact they are not going to blindly click on your adsense. That said they see a Title and description on Digg and if they have a desire to read more about that topic they will come to your site. If you are making campaigns that don't relate to your site then you won't keep those people around but if you have content related to your submitted articles you will retain users. I am an avid Google searcher... In all my time searching for various things I have rarely ever subscribed to a feed or bookmarked the site. So how is my action any different if I find my site through a search engine or through a Digg site. Additionally, jumping back to links, a huge amount of the authors online watch the front page of Digg for content they can write about. They have very targeted audiences and when they link to you it is very targeted and natural, like search engines want it to be. Additionally the traffic they send is very targeted. What people miss is that social media is a platform that will give your content visibility. Your content has to perform at that point. In each section you say the traffic sucks, it doesn't convert, the links are low quality and can even hurt you. Then you summarize the entire piece saying you can get quality links, great traffic, and conversions. I normally don't comment like this but.... what the hell is this article about?? I honestly have to disagree on a few points.

Traffic is not the reason people use Digg. As you mention most people feel the traffic is not good and thus use Digg purely for the backlinks that it gives.

Speaking of links I normally get quite a bit more than 30 links from a successful campaign on Digg. As far as quality goes i have received numerous links from very valuable links from Digg campaigns. Like Science Digest, Gizmodo, Boing Boing, Engadget, MSN, and much much more.

You further mention that your traffic from Digg is low quality. I hear that a lot. The traffic on Digg is much like anyone who would read this blog in the fact they are not going to blindly click on your adsense.

That said they see a Title and description on Digg and if they have a desire to read more about that topic they will come to your site. If you are making campaigns that don’t relate to your site then you won’t keep those people around but if you have content related to your submitted articles you will retain users.

I am an avid Google searcher… In all my time searching for various things I have rarely ever subscribed to a feed or bookmarked the site. So how is my action any different if I find my site through a search engine or through a Digg site.

Additionally, jumping back to links, a huge amount of the authors online watch the front page of Digg for content they can write about. They have very targeted audiences and when they link to you it is very targeted and natural, like search engines want it to be. Additionally the traffic they send is very targeted.

What people miss is that social media is a platform that will give your content visibility. Your content has to perform at that point.

In each section you say the traffic sucks, it doesn’t convert, the links are low quality and can even hurt you.

Then you summarize the entire piece saying you can get quality links, great traffic, and conversions.

I normally don’t comment like this but…. what the hell is this article about??

]]> By: Sujan Patel http://www.searchenginejournal.com/the-good-and-bad-of-the-almighty-diggcom/5948/comment-page-1/#comment-702201 Sujan Patel Tue, 06 Nov 2007 23:04:56 +0000 http://www.searchenginejournal.com/the-good-and-bad-of-the-almighty-diggcom/5948/#comment-702201 I wrote about stumbleupon a month ago. Here is a link: http://www.searchenginejournal.com/stumbleupon-phenomenon-an-in-depth-look-at-a-social-networking-giant/5591/ I wrote about stumbleupon a month ago. Here is a link: http://www.searchenginejournal.com/stumbleupon-phenomenon-an-in-depth-look-at-a-social-networking-giant/5591/

]]> By: C. W. Hatch http://www.searchenginejournal.com/the-good-and-bad-of-the-almighty-diggcom/5948/comment-page-1/#comment-702196 C. W. Hatch Tue, 06 Nov 2007 22:57:35 +0000 http://www.searchenginejournal.com/the-good-and-bad-of-the-almighty-diggcom/5948/#comment-702196 I have never had the pleasure of having an article on the front page of Digg. Readers have submitted things to Digg, but the traffic to my site from this has always been small. StumbleUpon has actually been a bit more steady source of traffic. Have you considered an article about StumbleUpon traffic? Myself and the user above came from these sources! I have never had the pleasure of having an article on the front page of Digg. Readers have submitted things to Digg, but the traffic to my site from this has always been small. StumbleUpon has actually been a bit more steady source of traffic. Have you considered an article about StumbleUpon traffic? Myself and the user above came from these sources!

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