Yesterday, I wrote a piece named Google's Gmail Reaches 6GB on Christmas. Soon I saw it was submitted to Digg, but it seems like when it started to gain some steam, it was manually removed from the upcoming page. It has been ages since a post on seroundtable.com made it on the Digg home page, in fact, we use to be on the Digg home page often - but it has been months since that has happened. I believe Digg has blacklisted seroundtable.com, because it is unnatural for our content not to be on Digg, at least once a month.
Checking the stats this AM, I noticed Reddit sent us a ton of traffic. Over 7,000 visitors just from Reddit. It made the Reddit home page, so thank you Reddit community!
But why am I blacklisted on Digg? Did I abuse it? Who knows...
Comments
That's digg for you, I've actually had a lot more success there than with reddit, but clearly reddit can send a lot of visitors as well!
Posted by: Glen ALlsopp | December 26, 2007 11:21 AM
Digg is not what it used to be. I have not had much luck promoting *anything* on Digg as of recent.
Posted by: Robert The Guitar Player | December 26, 2007 4:18 PM
I have not had much traffic from Digg in a long time, well, when I think about it, I haven't had much from Reddit either :-)
StumbleUpon has been the best web 2.0 traffic source for me.
Posted by: Jens P. Berget | December 26, 2007 7:16 PM
I have been a digg memeber for awhile and have never done really well on getting traffic from them. I have gotten the links just not much traffic. It seems that digg users are more focused on what I call trash entertainment. I submitted an article I found ranndomly on the internet and it had the highest ammount of diggs on it I had recived. http://digg.com/politics/Self_waterboarding_how_could_it_possibly_be_torture
The same article on reddit got some 400 votes (http://reddit.com/search?q=waterboarding) I have found stumbled upon to give the best results. But the posting I am referring to is something totally unrelated to my normal topics. I think digg is becoming Entertainment Tonight of the social media world. Another I have begun to like is Newsvine My Newsvine page One thing I have noticed is they are little snobby and the fellow gorwers can be nasty.
Good luck and I would like to hear more on the status of digg versus others and how they come about on producing there results.
Posted by: Chris Estes | December 27, 2007 1:17 AM