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Digg - Good For Your Site…… At Least Not Bad For Your Site

In my previous post I wrote about how Digg can be bad for your page.  In there I wrote that Digg users can overwhelm a website’s bandwidth, putting it down for the rest of the month.  To make matters worse Digg users are very tech savvy, and unlikely to click on your ads.  Unlikely to net you any money.

However - there are some good points about Digg that I left unstated.  Digg does have some redeeming qualities, which is why many people, including myself use it.

The tech savvy nature of Digg is actually one of its redeeming qualities.  Although I don’t expect many people using Digg to click on my ads, I do expect a lot of the Diggers to have blogs and websites.   That is my target audience.  If I write an interesting article, they are likely to bookmark my page and come back to it later.  If I write a really good article, they are likely to post a backlink to it on their own page, driving traffic to me which will result in a higher clickthrough rate.

Additionally, because Digg users are so tech savvy, they are the kind of people I want commenting on my site.  If I post a question about how to do something, or I post a question asking what people think of a recent format change, Digg users are likely to respond.  More than that, they are likely to respond in an intelligent matter which is useful to my immediate problem.

The bottom line is I don’t Digg pages expecting to get an immediate spike and traffic and money.  In fact I don’t want to have a page go to Digg’s front page and put my site down for a month.  However, Digg is a great way to slowly build up my page’s backlinks and build up its traffic.

For now I’ll keep using Digg.