Do Diggs really work?

[draggar]

I had a site where I paid people here (in DNF$) for digging my site. I got several dozen diggs for the site.

Now, a few months later I haven't noticed any long-term benefits to al the diggs - only a short term boost in traffic.

Has anyone had any long term success with getting Diggs on their site(s)?

[james2002]

Thanks for this thread.

I also like to know about Diggs and I wonder it is waste of time?

[jinglepoint]

Hahaha I know where and why this has struck you now.... See I already helped you! :p

In my opinion, digg, stumbleupon and for that matter any social bookmarking site, Atleast for now have algorithms set for just hot topics or topics which might be embraced by a gazillion users. If your article, site, or video does not fall into those two categories, you are either left with the initial jump in traffic - usually a few hundreds and then it dies down to that occasional visit they send.

Hot (Fresh) topics always have a higher priority. IMO

james2002: I think we might be wrong when we assume it is just waste of time, at least we got that initial traffic. But, I think if a we contribute something to the user community instead of just promoting our site/article, it will be well embraced and will get a lot of diggs, mixxes, reddits etc from users and hence show up in the top lists and hence drive traffic. (Well I say this, but all I have done everytime, is digg my site and then sit back and bi*ch about digg and reddit hehehe. MOst of my articles just have one digg.... and hmmm I guess you know who that is :p )

[draggar]

That's the thing - none of my sites will ever be "hot" topics - too much competition. I prefer my smaller, yet extremely loyal, niches.

[elivate]

actually it is all about volume... you need something that is hot, that is true, but you can't really "buy" diggs effectively, unless what you have to share is good enough to spread naturally after the initial influx of traffic... viral is the term... Like tell two friends, they tell two friends, and so on...

Some examples are the wedding dance down the aisle video and my personal fav United Breaks Guitars

Now these are both videos, but the same goes for websites, blogs, etc...

[Designcrowd]

It depends on your topic - I certainly had lots of long term traffic from Digg

Regards

[nattydomain]

I think it helps to get you indexed and backlinks but thats about it....

[dncsacnt]

I think it also depends on the cotent of the site. For one of my site, it got a very high volume of return traffic.