The Digg Effect Case Study

January 9, 2008 by
Filed under: Reviews 

My last post talking about the top 10 reasons this list will be popular on digg was not only popular, but it was a flagship Digg post for me. I knew the digg users would digg it up, but I had no idea it would receive over 5000 diggs. This post is going to be a case study showcasing the Digg effect on my server. The Digg effect is where an article is featured on the homepage on Digg.com and receives tens of thousands of visitors in a very short time period (a huge spike in traffic).

Traffic:
I waited an extra 24 hours before publishing this post to give a better estimate on the actual numbers, but know that I will have received quite a bit more visitors than what is displayed because the Digg post is listed permanently and this is just the spike.

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Comments

11 Comments on The Digg Effect Case Study

  1. Ethan Christ on Wed, 9th Jan 2008 1:28 pm

    2. Impressive… :)

  2. Smith on Wed, 9th Jan 2008 3:44 pm

    3. great that you got all those new readers. Mostly when sites like this analyse their digg effect, they only really talk about money or hits

  3. JustinM on Wed, 9th Jan 2008 4:03 pm

    4. I am one of those new subscribers. I gotta say that the “Recommended Posts” section at the top of the page was a huge factor. I decided to go ahead and click around when I thought “wth is a link building cookbook???”
    I was pleasantly surprised at the quality of posts. Hope you keep it up! Cheers!

  4. Sudarshan on Wed, 9th Jan 2008 4:31 pm

    5. Very good case study…Thank God…your blog holded up

  5. Hmmm on Wed, 9th Jan 2008 8:05 pm

    6. Just so you know, that feedburner spike is probably inflated … it’s hard to explain but the long story short is: digg spikes make it look like you gain more readers than you do, but you probably did gain half or so of the ones it is showing you

  6. Collin LaHay on Wed, 9th Jan 2008 8:07 pm

    7. Yes I know, the hype machine goes way up then way down.

    At the end it will still be higher than before.

  7. Tyler on Thu, 10th Jan 2008 12:05 pm

    8. Wow. That is great traffic for one post. I actually thought it would get buried because it was diggbait. Congrats.

  8. turtie on Thu, 10th Jan 2008 2:19 pm

    9. Great job. I love reading about the little guys in the blogging world making their mark. GOGOGO!!!

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  10. John on Sat, 19th Jan 2008 10:03 am

    11. Nice job. I’d be interested to hear what your Feedburner stats level off at after a week or two, since the spike is probably not entirely accurate as Hmmm pointed out a couple of comments back.

    I saw your original post on Digg (and Dugg it :-) but I found this one from another blog post, not realizing the two were related. Nice to see the followup details.

  11. Mircea on Thu, 1st May 2008 9:21 pm

    12. Congratulations! I might bookmark your site for further reading…I did came thru Digitalpoint and not Digg though…

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