What in the world is Digg?
Digg is a social bookmarking site. Members of the Digg community send in links to content (articles, blog posts, etc.) that they find interesting. Other Digg members take a look at the submissions and see what they think. If enough members “Digg” the content then it will move to the front page of Digg. Many, many people go to the front page of Digg just to see what’s going on in the world. Having a link to your site there could bring in lots of new visitors.
Here are two articles on the effect of being on the home page of Digg:
- http://blogs.tech-recipes.com/davak/2005/11/06/
digg-effect-the-top-10-things-webmasters-should-know/ - http://www.centernetworks.com/digg-business-standpoint
Other social bookmarking sites are:
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July 6th, 2007 at 3:17 pm
Okay, someone put me on StumbleUpon (was it you?) and my hits went way up. However, that lasted only about a week or so. Now I don’t get any hits from StumbleUpon.
Furthermore, when I went to StumbleUpon I could never find myself. I only knew about it because I saw it in my stats page as a source of hits.
It’s a complicated internet world out there. . . . .
July 6th, 2007 at 8:52 pm
Nope, it wasn’t me. I do adore your site though and I did add it to my list of Interesting Blogs.
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