Getting Dugg
- Posted by Badi Jones on October 8th, 2006 - Comment on this Post »
This afternoon, around 3PM EST, I was pretty much just taking it easy on a Sunday when I got this email:
Hi !
I submitted your site to Digg last night, and see its on homepage now, hope you dont mind and you have enough server resources.
I quickly checked my traffic reports and saw a definite spike. Traffic at over 1500 unique visits. That’s double what it usually reaches on a Sunday. After that, I went to the Digg.com home page and saw that the link to SEOlogs.com, digg.com/software/Great_Webmaster_tool_Find_all_domains_that_share_your_IP was indeed on the front page. I was actually feeling pretty hopeful that my poor 1and1 Linux shared hosting account would probably be able to hold up to the traffic. After all, it was a Sunday, the slowest day on the web.
About 20 to 30 minutes later, the site was down, along with all of my other sites hosted on that plan. I immediately called the 1and1.com support number. About 30 minutes later, they had the site back up. Well, it was weird, because the site only worked without the www (http://seologs.com). http://www.seologs.com gave a 404. It took about 2 hours total for everything to be working fine again. The site has received way more traffic since then with no problems.
So it’s now about 8 hours later, and according to my free statcounter.com account, there have been over 12,000 unique visitors so far today. I’ll have to compare that to my AWstats and Google Analytics tomorrow, but It’s definitely pretty amazing.
The link is on page 4 now, and the traffic is still pretty much pouring in. Tomorrow, I’ll give a full update and report of the traffic.
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October 9th, 2006 at 1:08 am
I know digg.com gives you crazy traffic.
June 19th, 2007 at 6:02 am
Thats all real.. Digg provides it for sure but the main thing is How to remain on the first page for some time … and if u succeed in it .. thousands of visitors are waiting to visit you.
December 18th, 2007 at 3:25 pm
It will also depend for how long you are listed in the front page. We have seen over 70,000 visitors for front page listing, so the visitor amount really depends on the topic title, category and for how long it is featured on the front page.