Gaming Digg

[Andrew]

Check it out: http://spikethevote.com/

 

[Ben]

This could work out, since you only digg other users stories 20% of the time.

 

[tangem2]

yeah not a bad idea really and you can bet he will be pushing his articles to the front page every time.

 

[Kyle]

Cool, it was only a matter of time until somebody did it. Can't really think of a way for Digg to get around this, although there is a rumour that Digg runs SpikeTheVote and is using it to weed out the people willing to game the system. Very unlikely but would be genius if it was true.

 

[Andrew]

I got an idea, how about I write a post about this on my blog and we digg it?

 

[nachoninja]

looks promising, could be owned by digg as that site looks quite well done for a simple spam process

 

[micfire]

Hmm, I actually had the exact same idea some time ago, but I didn't take it any further. It was just not worth it.

 

[nachoninja]

Hmm, I actually had the exact same idea some time ago, but I didn't take it any further. It was just not worth it.

It'd totally be worth it, I would imagine the guy who developed this is a marketer himself, you could put your own stories to be dugg whenever you wanted to and that = mad traffic.

 

[Adsense Loser]

digg sucks anyway

dont waste my time with them

 

[matrics]

I'm sure we can all agree Digg traffic is worthless - no-one from there clicks on any ads (maybe it'd do for CPM campaigns but I'm not really into those). So what'd be the point? I mean other than being able to go around bragging about how you got a bagillion stories on the first page.

There's only that many posts that can be on the first page at the same time => in the extreme you're on the first page for what, 10 minutes? - here's one more thing you can think about.

 

[randomlande]

it actually depends, one time i got on the front page of digg, my earnigns went up only a few dollars

another time it happened, and it was 15 times more than usual


this was with a humor site btw, not articles

 

[Andrew]

You guys are newbs. Its not the direct traffic thats beneficial, its the value of the link from digg and ultimately links from other sites.

 

[Adsense Loser]

Thats why we have gustbook spamming. I can drop links on hundreds PR4+ myspace accounts in a day and thats far better than digg with less uncertainty.

 

[Josh P]

I'm sure we can all agree Digg traffic is worthless - no-one from there clicks on any ads (maybe it'd do for CPM campaigns but I'm not really into those). So what'd be the point? I mean other than being able to go around bragging about how you got a bagillion stories on the first page.

Is this a joke? I once got one of my stories on the front page (the proper way baby, amazing unique content, and adsense made $100+ that day, and like $70 the next.

So yea, you're right man, Digg = no money = worseless.

 

[$ean]

I didn't see anyone else post on this... I know this thread is old, but check this out:

Spike The Vote Gets Spiked « John Chow dot Com

The site went up on eBay, was bought and turned over to digg, and all the accounts were banned. DOH!

Too bad. It was a great, if unethical, idea. I wonder if someone else will take over the niche (if someone hasn't already).

Ah well.