Traffic To Websites – Digg/BlogEngage/StumbleUpon
Posted on | December 5, 2007 | 2 Comments
I’m going to keep this brief since I lost my long draft (I could’ve swore it save in WP, but no idea what happened to it. Really pissed me off). I’m posting this up because people don’t realize the potential of social networking sites. I always suggest to people that they create search engine friendly websites, but then get an e-mail two days later saying that the traffic hasn’t increased. Uhhh… SEO (Search Engine Optimization) takes longer than two days to be effective. People then ask me what they should do in the meantime to get some traffic.
OK. What do you want? Traffic? The easiest way possible? Use social networking sites. I never really took advantage of these sites before my blog, but I’m seeing that websites like Digg.com, BlogEngage.com, StumbleUpon.com, and others really do actually send traffic. My favorite of the three for some reason is BlogEngage.com. The benefit of BlogEngage is that it’s a hidden gem–so not a lot of people know of it yet. This means its a hell of a lot easier to get on the first page than the other sites. Considering BlogEngage.com gets traffic and getting on the first page is not that hard, WHY NOT USE IT? You can scoop up traffic that comes to BlogEngage and get them on your site.
It’s also really easy to get your site in the last to get “Engaged.” There’s this feature where you add a bookmark to a javascript code (I put it on my Firefox tool bar for easier access… see picture below):
After a post, I just click on that and type a couple tags and it submits to BlogEngage. I thought it was pretty neat the first time I used it, and BlogEngage.com does send me traffic. Any traffic that’s targeted is good traffic!
Next up, Digg.com. Digg is pretty good since it’s a website that a lot of people use. You have these tags and you basically just “digg it.” A lot of diggs gets you on the first page. It’s kind of a PITA (Pain In The @$$) to get on the first page, but if you have time and a lot of digg fans, it should be worth it. There’s something called “the digg effect.”
Digg has grown large enough that submissions sometimes create a sudden increase of traffic to the “dugg” website. This is referred to by some Digg users as the “Digg effect” and by some others as the site being “dugg to death”. However, in many cases stories are linked simultaneously on several popular bookmarking sites. In such cases, the impact of the “digg effect” is difficult to isolate and assess. WordPress is especially hated among diggers for its frequency to crash under the increased traffic.
I don’t use Digg that offten since I hate getting people to sit and try to digg. I also don’t think it’s fair if the article isn’t really worth it, so I stay away. Others swear by it, so it definitely is worth it, IMO.
Now StumbleUpon is a really good site. Stumbles are easy and with Firefox, it’s just a small tool that sits on your toolbar. You either click a thumbs up if you like a site, or a thumbs down if you down:
The more stumbles, the more your site is seen. So, obviously the goal is to get the most stumbles. I like StumbleUpon cause all it takes is a small click of a thumbs up/thumbs down to vote for a site–which is conveniently located on my tool bar.
Pretty basic post, but I’m just trying to make it clear to people that try to get traffic to their sites: USE ALL FREE RESOURCES. Why not?! Sites like these get people to your site. The best thing about it is that it’s targeted traffic. People on these sites get to you because they are interested in something you have to offer. So, start!
P.S: I’m trying to get the digg plugin on my blog but for some reason it’s not working for me. I’m going to try and get my original long post about getting traffic to sites from these types of sites re-written this week. Hopefully for now this encourages some people to start using these free services, and, in turn get more traffic… which… means more cash 
. I’m also trying out the whole BlogRush.com thing. I’ve used them before on a sports blog, but that didn’t get updated as often as I hoped it would. A friend wanted the blog to write his comments, so I optimized and handed it over. No blog posts = no blog rush updates, and also less search engine spidering = no traffic. So keep that in mind also when trying to get traffic: UPDATE YOUR SITES!
Also, I’m planning on adding something where visitors can easily suggest a blog topic. If it’s something I haven’t tried before, I’ll go ahead and research it and post my experiences. K. Later!
Tags: blog engage > digg.com > getting traffic to sites > search engine optimization > SEO > socian networking > stumbple upon
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December 5th, 2007 @ 4:27 pm
It’s great and nice of you to support blog engage in the manner. I would never have thought the site would be in the same Blog as Stumble Upon and Digg.com
I am over whelmed by your generously and I thank you from me and all the bloggers at blogenage.
Cheers!
December 5th, 2007 @ 5:09 pm
The thing is people don’t look for other sites like BlogEngage because they feel as if they want the “big traffic.” What they neglect is that if you find 3-4 established smaller sites, you have a better chance at getting MORE traffic from those 3-4 than trying hard to make it on the first page of Digg. If you get a lot of traffic and write great articles it’s a possibility you can always get on the first page, but let’s be real–a lot of us, myself included, suck at writing. So, we don’t get as much attention.
I put together a damn list of a couple more sites + other traffic ways, just like I said, I lost the article. Will do the research again
. Thanks for creating a wonderful site!