Submit your breaking news stories and original articles to us by contacting us
Recently, I posted a story on Digg.com. The story related to a Vidcast called Systm. The host of Systm, Kevin Rose, is also the founder of Digg.com, meaning that it was going to be a hit. In fact, it was able to get to the homepage in under an hour. The story can be viewed here. Currently it has 2582 diggs. The problem was that the story’s domain name Revision3.com was not allowed to be submitted to digg, because it had been reported by some jokers. I got around this by creating a javascript redirect page, hosted on my own server. The stats on my server jumped, the results were crazy. With only 2000 diggs, I had 14,000 unique visitors that day.

See What News is Being Read on Digg Spy 2.0
Digg Army: Right in Line
FG-DIGG Issue on TWiT
Web 2.0 Review: Digg
Digg Corrupted: Editor’s Playground, not User-Driven Website
Forever Geek is a resource for all things geek. You can stay tuned by having the latest FG news delivered to you for free via RSS.
Category: Uncategorized
Tags:

Netbooks and User Satisfaction: It’s All About Expectations
10 Cool Sony Walkman photos – celebrate Walkman’s 30th birthday
3 Responses for "The Digg Effect"
December 27th, 2005 at 5:33 pm
1Jus incase you havent already seen it another blog documented the Digg effect visually.
Stats are the new Black!
December 28th, 2005 at 9:33 pm
2The real question is: How much extra $$$ did it bring you? Any ad clicks? Sold more t-shirts? Increase in PR ranking?
December 28th, 2005 at 9:58 pm
3no, this was only a redirect page so they didn’t view anything on the site. the purpose of showing you how powerful digg can be when a site is posted
RSS feed for comments on this post
Leave a reply