Comments on: Social Survey: Digg

By: John

John — Tue, 05 May 2009 15:29:15 +0000

Great post.

Digg is a great site and everyone can drive a good traffic from it, but the problem is that this traffic don’t convert well(for me).
My trick is that I use Digg to ranks on Google for long tail keywords, actually the traffic is from Google, and it converts.

By: John

John — Wed, 15 Apr 2009 07:16:49 +0000

Hi,

Good post.

I think that if you know how to use social sites you can drive a good amount of traffic to your site.My suggestion is to go to their tag section.There you can see what people actually are looking for, and than you can create blog or site on that topic.That mean more searches in your niche.

John.

By: Logica Uspeha

Logica Uspeha — Sat, 11 Apr 2009 09:03:58 +0000

I also have another story about social traffic.
I would like to compare traffic from search engines and social.
So… My visitors who come from social nets are on the site 20-30 seconds.
Visitors from search engines are on the site among 1 and 2 minutes.
Such a fact!

By: Kyle

Kyle — Wed, 13 Feb 2008 15:13:39 +0000

Lid, personally I think it’s ok to submit your own stuff. I know there is lots of conversations going back and forth, but if you write a really good post and you think it’s got some great value then don’t you feel obligated to digg it? The trick with this is to not digg every single post that you write, just your best. I probably submit 1/3 of my posts and I think that’s fair. Also if you don’t believe it’s worthy to get dugg why should anyone else? It’s part of the credibility.

As far as the Team Wofford diggers it’s a thought and we do have a few student workers that work with us on the website, but I don’t think 4-5 extra diggs is really enough to push something over the top. Now if we had 4-5 power diggers then that might be different and that does present an interesting angle. Although I would tend to think that the effort required to become a power digger could be better spent making the content that we already have better for our specific market (mostly prospective students and alumni).

By: Lid

Lid — Wed, 13 Feb 2008 04:27:42 +0000

Hi Kyle

Interesting post.

You got me thinking about Wofford. Based on the website, it looks like you’ve got some tech savvy students – have you thought about getting a Team Digg Wofford started? At least with them, you could be putting together a plan that attracts Diggers – who in turn may attract an audience beyond that…just a thought.

Also, what’s your take on submitters? Do you think it makes any difference whether Muhammad Saleem does the first Digg, or just a standard user?

Good luck with the blog!

By: Jeremy Wilburn

Jeremy Wilburn — Mon, 11 Feb 2008 18:15:17 +0000

Nice Post. I think Digg is a great website for finding information, but I cannot really see any real potential uses for marketing for higher ed unless you could really build your brand on Digg and constantly be able to produce things that would get dugg up. And I agree that the content would really have to be something spectacular.