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Digg Sent Me Over 197,000 Visitors in ONE DAY!
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I may have mentioned this in passing before, about one of my sites making it to the front page of digg. But I thought I would do a full follow up post for all the readers and let them know a bit about what type of traffic the digg actually brought me and whether or not I am happy with having spent over 40 GB of hosting on that one fatihful day?
Site:
Let’s first talk about the site and what it was that actually got dugg? I am not going to post the link to the actual digg article here, but if you are smart enough you should be able to find out which one of the sites was mine that made it to the front page of digg on the day that I posted about.
One of my more intrepid readers actually had already figured out which site it was on the first day! Another two had actually emailed me congratulation me on the sites success before I had even posted about it. You guys know me too well.
The type of site that I had used to make it to the frontpage of digg was a free online image host. I had uploaded a funny picture to the site and submitted the picture to digg. Less than 24 hours later my story had hit the front page. You could consider the picture to be controversial or just plain mean. But it had garnered over 600 comments and over 4,600 diggs. The article is currently on page 4 of the most dugg stories in the past 30 days. 4,600 diggs is quite alot and it did lead to a crazy amount of traffic.
Traffic:
The first real day of traffic we saw an amazing 197,000 unique visitors. That is an incredible amount for any website, but for a image host to sustain that kind of traffic on the first day is just amazing.
As you can see from the screenshot I was mistaken and the actual amount of uniques was 179,000. I think the number of hits is actually at 32 Million. Total amount of bandwidth used was 40 gigs. At this point I have to give props to my host, this site was hosted on a shared server and the site only lagged maybe 3-4 times other than that nothing. In the digg comment you see a total of 10 complaints about the sites speed but that was to be expected on a shared server. When docstoc.com went live they were down for their first day because there site got dugg, techcrunched, and a story on the site dugg as well. So my little site actually made me quite proud!
Here are some more screenshots:
As you can see from the country referrals the traffic was probably the best that you could get because it was not coming from countries that advertisers do not want to pay cash for!
Lets take a look at the referral logs:
Sorry about the crap cropping, but I did not want to resize this image. As you can see more of the traffic came from Digg, but for site that has only been for half a month getting 600 visitors from GooGle is no small feat either.
GooGle Versus Yahoo. The difference in Time.
Anyone notice which company seems to be a success and which ones a failure? Minimalistic approach seems to be the way to go nowadays eh? Where Yahoo tried to ram content down your throat at every turn on one page, GooGle took the oppisite direction and restricted the amount of content on their main page. GooGle have grown in terms of applications and content but they are not sticking everything on one GOD DAMN PAGE!
You never really appreciate these things until you can see them side by side, so take a look and lemme know what you think.
Now let’s take a look at the stock prices for both Yahoo, and Google. It seems to show that as Google loses content it’s stock value goes up. When Yahoo gains content stock value… well you get the picture.
Don’t buy No More Yahoo Stock. And if you have any GooGle stock hold onto it for all that your worth.
Why Clinton was Better Than Bush Will Ever Be
A sign that pretty much sums up the last 8 years just perfectly don’t you think?
Some Pictures For My Readers
I thought it would be nice to post some pictures of the big bad daddy (ME). These were taken about a year ago on the way to the mountains. These are the same mountains where a tragic earthquake ripped through in October. These pictures were from September. I actually stayed in a building that was demolished by the Earthquake. I am so thankful to God everyday that I was there 1 month before anything bad happened.
This first picture is of me smiling in the car with some nice Ray Ban’s on. I got my friend to drive my car while I relaxed. I didn’t want to drive in the mountains anyway. I felt really bad for the suckers in the back there were 4 of them! I was sitting like a king!
This is from a stop on the way to the Mountains. I was dying of thirst and we had to stop. See those 3 guys in the back? The reason they are starting and laughing at me is because I am wearing shorts. It’s not very common for people to wear shorts in Pakistan, and the fact that this was in the Northern Areas where everyone wears the traditional shalwar kameez probably had them going nuts.
This last picture is from when we were coming back from the mountains. It was the most disgusting place I had ever been. We tried forever to get a hotel room, but no one was willing to give 6 guys a room without a family. They were thinking that we were gonna cause some Ruckus. And so we had to stay at the worst possible place that took us in. I refused to sleep on the bed, or sleep in general. We left the next morning at 7 o’clock and this picture was taken on the way down. As you can see I was very angry and had not had a shave.
I hope you enjoyed this nice little personal touch to the blog, I thought it would be nice for the readers to have a face to go along with.
