Comments on: Chitika study suggests Digg traffic 3 times less likely to click ads than Google traffic http://www.blogherald.com/2007/04/12/chitika-study-suggests-digg-traffic-3-times-less-likely-to-click-ads-than-google-traffic/ The leading source of news covering social media and the blogosphere. Mon, 13 Feb 2012 09:18:59 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Andy Merrett http://www.blogherald.com/2007/04/12/chitika-study-suggests-digg-traffic-3-times-less-likely-to-click-ads-than-google-traffic/comment-page-1/#comment-180666 Andy Merrett Fri, 13 Apr 2007 07:37:33 +0000 http://www.blogherald.com/2007/04/12/chitika-study-suggests-digg-traffic-3-times-less-likely-to-click-ads-than-google-traffic/#comment-180666 Thanks for the input Bret. I like Digg to a point, but it's very exclusive (it's not even a generic technology site, perhaps that's what Slashdot fulfils) - when the categories are biased towards Apple, Microsoft, and a few others, it can sometimes be hard to even find a category to digg a story to - and then you run the risk of being accused of putting the story in the wrong place. I find the Digg crowd (as a mass) is generally fairly unforgiving - maybe not as much as the /. clan - and the running commentary on the site itself is often quite negative and snarky - at least that doesn't always translate into commentary on the dugg site itself. I think there can be benefit to being Dugg, but it's not always easy to see exactly where, when in the short term you seem to have to put up with very negative comments, and shoring up your web server or paying for extra bandwidth. Thanks for the input Bret.

I like Digg to a point, but it’s very exclusive (it’s not even a generic technology site, perhaps that’s what Slashdot fulfils) – when the categories are biased towards Apple, Microsoft, and a few others, it can sometimes be hard to even find a category to digg a story to – and then you run the risk of being accused of putting the story in the wrong place.

I find the Digg crowd (as a mass) is generally fairly unforgiving – maybe not as much as the /. clan – and the running commentary on the site itself is often quite negative and snarky – at least that doesn’t always translate into commentary on the dugg site itself.

I think there can be benefit to being Dugg, but it’s not always easy to see exactly where, when in the short term you seem to have to put up with very negative comments, and shoring up your web server or paying for extra bandwidth.

]]> By: Bret http://www.blogherald.com/2007/04/12/chitika-study-suggests-digg-traffic-3-times-less-likely-to-click-ads-than-google-traffic/comment-page-1/#comment-180615 Bret Fri, 13 Apr 2007 00:35:25 +0000 http://www.blogherald.com/2007/04/12/chitika-study-suggests-digg-traffic-3-times-less-likely-to-click-ads-than-google-traffic/#comment-180615 I'm a regular Digg visitor and while I enjoy the site, the Digg audience can be highly critical of articles getting dug. As much as I would enjoy reaching the front page with something I blogged, I wonder whether the temporary rush of traffic is worth the often harsh criticism. I wrote an article for IBM Developerworks that was well dug (500+ if I recall correctly); however, the Digg comment thread said nothing of my article but rather spun off into a debate of Perl as a "real" programming language. I know my comment here is only mildly related to this post; however, your post did get me thinking: Is getting dug at Digg really worth it? I’m a regular Digg visitor and while I enjoy the site, the Digg audience can be highly critical of articles getting dug. As much as I would enjoy reaching the front page with something I blogged, I wonder whether the temporary rush of traffic is worth the often harsh criticism. I wrote an article for IBM Developerworks that was well dug (500+ if I recall correctly); however, the Digg comment thread said nothing of my article but rather spun off into a debate of Perl as a “real” programming language. I know my comment here is only mildly related to this post; however, your post did get me thinking: Is getting dug at Digg really worth it?

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