Behold the power of DIGG and news feeds.

[COBOLdinosaur]

Today on DIGG a featured item in the news feeds was Batalf's DHTMLgoodies site.  I suspect he saw a lot of traffic as a result.  Because there is a link to ERT on Alf's page we also benefited from it.  Enough benefit to have hit a new record for total visits in a single day.  Also enough to move DHTMLgoodies ahead of Google (at least temporarily as the highest total referals for the month.

THANK YOU ALF.  :^)

I hope the DIGG link boosts you site.  :cheers:

Cd&

[COBOLdinosaur]

BTW.  Thae action on our RSS feed went way up today, so I am assuming that the DIGG visitors check them out and we migh get pick up on a few sites as a result.

Cd&

[Batalf]

Hi Cd&

I'm glad that ERT also benefit from the Digg link  :^)

I was actually going to ask how many visitors ERT got today by the link from my site.

The number of visitors "exploded" on my site today. The number of page views so far is about what I've had in a whole month earlier.

I expect the numbers to fall big time the following days, but hopefully my site and ERT gets an "after effect" of this.

[Huntress]

That's really cool Alf!  Good job!   :thumbup:

[VGR]

I'm very happy for you, but after reading the tos, faq, home page of digg and some "stories" I think it's crap and that I will never use it nor recommend it :D

People able to give 300 "diggs" to the "which programming language should you learn?" so-called "story", and which is a major piece of shit, doesn't merit my time :D

[COBOLdinosaur]

Alf we had 722 page hits and just under 300 unique visitors.  Those numbers are about double what we did last Sunday.  The refereals from your site look like they are also up about 150 for the day, so I would say  we got 150-160 off of it for Sunday.  Pretty good for a simple text link.   :D

I also see a shift in what pages are getting traffic. Thre is a definite increase in the number of RSS requests, and that is confirmed by the amount of bandwith and CPU I used, both up along with the number of processes.

There was also and increase in the hits on mentor intro pages and articles.

VGR you miss the whole point... It does not matter if you like DIGG; or if any of us do.  It is blogger central.  I don't care much for blogs because they are 90% sewage, but the fact is that DIGG gets a lot of traffic, and hitting their front pages means getting seen by a lot of people; enven if they are mostly bloggers.

We carry them on our inbound RSS because they have impact, and you have to be aware of what they are doing; whether you approve of the site or not.

Cd&

[VGR]

blogs are useless, but again I'm happy for you (and I didn't "miss the point", thank you ;-)