I was waiting for the next round and it is here. My complaint about Digg has been dugg. Here is why, as stated by a digger, “He he he. He doesn’t want to be dugg. Let’s digg him to be funny.”
Thank you for the evidence and further proof that Digg traffic doesn’t stay on your stay on your site long enough to actually read it. As their comments illustrate, the purpose of digging Kim Krause Berg again, is solely to be mean spirited and poke fun. And I have little choice to tolerate this “social media engine” abuse because, as Danny Sullivan wrote earlier this week, tapping into these players helps you indirectly.”
I’m looking forward to those quality links many of my friends have promised will certainly come, because there’s a tropical island I fully intend to move to with all the millions I make from the conversions.
Sadly, Tamar, the hint you dropped about my not being male didn’t get past their slick radar. Do you think it matters that all this marketing and attention about me or this blog is accurate?
Yep. That’s what I thought too.
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You could always 302 them over to my site.
It’s a shame that the digg majority only like scandal and mischief.
Gee Kim, if you’re a “he” wouldn’t that mean that you’re disqualified from that whole ‘Godmother of Search’ thing?
I think the effect the traffic surge has on your site is different, site to site, and there are good reasons for that. Some people will have a bad experience and some will have a good one.
The Digg traffic is not necessarily going to be the same type of people as your normal traffic. Clicks and actions will vary. It’s a technology news crowd, not necessarily a web design or usability or gaming-specific crowd, which is what many of the sites being Dugg are used to.
And yes, some of the people visiting from Digg are stupid, and some are rude, but most are normal people (me for example).
My experiences with Digg have been extremely positive so far - lots of new feed subscribers, loads of new links, lots of comments, a few ad clicks - what I would expect from a surge in traffic on the day.
I agree that the traffic from Digg and similar sites is often useless, and further, those users seldomly spend a minute on a page.
I’ve tested sites like Digg and found out most of the people commenting (especially with negative comments) hadn’t even opened the URL and had no idea what was in there. They were making their minds out of what little they could gather from the title and description of the post, and borrowing other participant’s opinions.
That’s like making a sales pitch to monkeys. There’s the chance that they will listen and there is also a perfectly similar chance one will poo in it’s hand and toss it at you after hearing the title, and a minute later they will all be thoroughly engaged in a poo tossing fiesta.
I suppose Digg traffic would be somewhat useful for selling Paris Hilton’s leaked videos, but I can’t imagine it being worthwhile for much else. There’s also the possibility of getting links, but most the overwhelming majority of these people don’t have good sites.