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Is it valuable to have your website appear on Reddit or Digg homepage?

by ebizman
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Is it valuable to have your website appear on Reddit or Digg homepage?

These 2 sites in particular get millions of visitors per month, so im assuming being on the homepage would get your tons of traffic.

Especially if you an an affiliate offer your article, that's good $$$?
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  • Profile picture of the author lwbing
    Of Coz, if You Can Get in the Homepage just one time, You will get a lot of money,
    I try Digg for one Time, No.3 get Hi-Q 30K Traffic, But not easy got first page.
    And the news say the reddit better than digg, Just Try and you will know!
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    • Profile picture of the author ebizman
      Originally Posted by lwbing View Post

      Of Coz, if You Can Get in the Homepage just one time, You will get a lot of money,
      I try Digg for one Time, No.3 get Hi-Q 30K Traffic, But not easy got first page.
      And the news say the reddit better than digg, Just Try and you will know!
      wow you got 30k visitors from Digg from the homepage feed?
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  • Profile picture of the author Joseph Robinson
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    Eh, in my personal opinion I wouldn't count on getting much out of it, especially on the homepages. We Redditors are a fickle bunch, and much more likely to go to the comments and make bad puns than we are to stay hopping around your site.

    Takes something really good/interesting/funny (or that really plays into the circlejerk mindset of certain subreddits) to get onto page one anyways. It's up to you to decide if you can provide it.
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  • Profile picture of the author KillerJVs
    It's boosts your traffic but it doesn't boost your sales.

    The people that digg or reddit the page are readers, their not buyers.

    I produced a digg homepage when it was still popular, had 20k uniques in 24 hours just from digg, melted my server and produced no cash.

    -Matt
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  • Profile picture of the author Randall Magwood
    You will get a surge of traffic, but don't expect it to be highly responsive traffic.
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  • Profile picture of the author JustinDupre
    Having your website on Reddit or Digg can boost the traffic to your site.
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  • Profile picture of the author JerrickYeoh
    Ofcourse if they do sell their ads place. Don't need said 1st page, i only submit my website , it already help me to get huge traffic. It you appear on homepage all the time, i believe you can get huge amount of traffic.
    But i don't think it will be cheap and i'm not sure they do allow affiliate links or not.
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  • Profile picture of the author maestro_mr
    Is paid ads provided by Reddit or Digg?
    If so, it would be valuable as these bookmarking sites has million visitors per day.
    But I haven't try it yet.
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  • Profile picture of the author GorillazGoods
    As a redditor myself, I'm not sure if you'll end up getting much conversions. You may get a "temporary" jump in traffic if (and that's a big if) it gets on the front page newsfeed. Redditors tend to be a bit smarter than the average internet user and may be a little cynical about certain things related to IM. Overall they're more likely to comment on pictures of cute animals and various issues in society than reach into their pockets for something.

    You might have more success on digg though, especially now that they've completely "sold out" and have ads ALL OVER their pages.
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  • Profile picture of the author FrankMiller
    Reddit would be worthwhile if the content is the right fit.

    And Digg is dead. RIP.
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  • Profile picture of the author Ankesh Kothari
    Sure its valuable. Reddit will definitely crash your servers if you're on a shared host. A few pointers:

    1. As others have said, reddit traffic does not always convert well. But this isn't true for everyone. Some kickstarter campaigns have raised a few thousand dollars because of traffic from reddit.

    2. Getting on the front page of reddit is equivalent to being mentioned on CNN. What it'll do is get other bloggers and media outlets to notice you.

    3. You can't game reddit with a group of friends. You have to participate, know the tone of the community, and create content that they'll love.

    4. Redditors love to buy. But they hate people selling to them. So affiliate links won't work. You have to be creative and build tools or apps that help them.
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    • Profile picture of the author Blase
      I just read and article about Digg
      that said a number of years ago
      it turned down and offer of 200 million
      for the site.

      It just sold last week for $500K.

      I don't think Digg is worth chasing
      for Social Bookmarking any more.
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  • Profile picture of the author LetsGoViral
    Well, with the recent changes Digg is pretty much dead. Yes, I said it - dead. Reddit is very popular, however mostly inhabited by tech-savvy hipsters and pro-pirates. These guys will not buy your dog training book.
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  • Profile picture of the author EricJames
    Reddit is great for a laugh and a look into what can sometimes be the scary effect of hive mindset ...

    However, like stated you can't really game the system. They are a savvy bunch and will know when they are being marketed to. And they don't like being marketed to.

    Your best bet would be nailing down a subreddit with some quality content, engaging with the people, becoming part of the community, emerging as a figure of authority in that niche, and hope it sticks.

    But now we are just applying basic IM principles to a different platform and that requires work and that kind of kills the instant traffic dream so I'm not sure that's your cup of tea.

    Now if you're talking about adult traffic there are some tricky and sneaky ways to use reddit that I have been messing around with.

    Are you talking adult traffic?
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  • Profile picture of the author Imogene
    As you get referral traffic so they are not too helpful and they would stay for few moments....
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