Comments on: Digg just totally killed linkbait

By: Ryan @ Linkbuildr

Ryan @ Linkbuildr — Thu, 28 May 2009 04:58:52 +0000

Linkbait is still alive on and kicking on Digg. I’ve had a lot of my linkbait for clients pop on Digg and benefit from dozens to hundreds of links from other sites linking to it. Digg has not come close to outranking the original post once it has gone hot.

By: Houston Search Engine Marketing and Optimization Services » Blog Archive » Is the New DiggBar Pure Evil?

Thu, 23 Apr 2009 21:15:17 +0000

[...] Traffic and Links: As some people have stated, “Digg is just a glorified scraper site now.” The reason that this statement has some [...]

By: Zvi Peretz Cohen

Zvi Peretz Cohen — Tue, 21 Apr 2009 06:25:03 +0000

I wonder how long it will take the folks at Digg to react to this criticism?
Zvi

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Tue, 14 Apr 2009 18:18:20 +0000

[...] is the latest culprit when they introduced their Social Media Toolbar, effectively killing linkbait in the process. Basically websites like Digg have the potential of referring thousands upon [...]

By: The Diggbar: Friend or foe to news sites? | Zombie Journalism

The Diggbar: Friend or foe to news sites? | Zombie Journalism — Tue, 14 Apr 2009 01:37:06 +0000

[...] the original source’s ranking in Comscore, Google and more. This had this news website editor weeping for the death of linkbait – and wondering when we’d begin to discourage our users from Digging our [...]

By: Will

Will — Thu, 09 Apr 2009 20:46:29 +0000

Digg is just a glorified scraper site now. I think the exodus to reddit will soon be massive.

By: DiggBar, the Game Changer - 4 Ways Internet Marketers Can React

DiggBar, the Game Changer - 4 Ways Internet Marketers Can React — Wed, 08 Apr 2009 17:22:42 +0000

[...] 2. Abandon ship – Digg just isn’t worth it anymore Sick of the DiggBar? It might be a good time to abandon ship and focus your marketing efforts elsewhere – like Twitter. Patrick Altoft expresses this sentiment pretty well in a post entitled Digg just totally killed linkbait. [...]

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Wed, 08 Apr 2009 12:45:00 +0000

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By: Blogercise

Blogercise — Tue, 07 Apr 2009 15:20:28 +0000

I personally advise people not to chase Digg traffic in the first place! Think about who uses such sites and why they are using it. Someone typing a term into Google knows what they want, they have a purpose and a goal, they are necessarily search for something. These are the people you want on your site.

A Digg user is just clicking around and wasting some time, they’ve clicked to your site because Digg has put it up in front of their face, 99 times out of 100 they will have no interest. This is particularly bad if you use eg adsense as Google will reduce the amount it pays you if you are not getting clicks.

I sometimes feel like the kid from the old fable who points out that the Emperor is naked after all! On the plus side, the more people chasing social traffic the less there are chasing search traffic !

By: PSD Converter Guy

PSD Converter Guy — Tue, 07 Apr 2009 13:29:14 +0000

that’s truly amazing that they can do that… it’s almost like hotlinking an image like google images indirectly does… perhaps they’ll see a lack of hot new content being submitted and revert, however unlikely.