As I mentioned earlier, I was ‘dugg’ for the first time yesterday and the effect on my site traffic of being dugg has been nothing but impressive. I don’t have a full days worth of stats yet but yesterday my traffic and visitors doubled even though I was only on the digg homepage for two hours during my reporting period, so it will interesting to see what happens when I get a full days worth of stats. I hope blogware don’t cancel my free blog as I think my bandwidth usage is shooting through the roof!At first I was disappointed as all the comments for my article were placed on digg and none were placed on my site. Then I remembered why I started blogging in the first place – so that I could share my views and to test a few ideas that I have at work (I work in Strategy for an ISP). Yes, I want more traffic, but my real goal is to see what other people think so I’ve decided that I don’t mind that all the ‘thoughts’ are on digg and not on my site.
However, I would like to give my regular readers a chance to see and participate in what the ‘diggers’ think of my posts and I do want to capture some of the Digg visitors so I have done the following:
- I have created a new component which will show all visitors to my blog other articles that have been digged. Hopefully, even visitors who are entered via a digg will see this and will follow some of the links
- On articles that have been dug I have added some text saying that this article has been dug, along with a link to the digg page so that users can see and participate in the digg comments
- I have added links to other articles and categories in my blog within the digged post in an attempt to capture some of the visitors from digg
- The more pages they read on my blog the increased likelihood that they will remember it and return
- I have made a point of asking visitors from digg to comment on my post – I think that if they comment there is a greater chance that they will come back later on to see if someone else has responded to them.
I will take these actions everytime I get ‘slashdotted’ by a bigger site or blog.
