I got the idea from a Norwegian news-site, where they listed some of the sexy commercials that have been on the TV. I thought instantly that that would be a great theme to make a “top 10″ list of, and as most of you know, digg users love “top 10″ lists!

Anyway, the post where fairly easy to make. I went to Youtube and searched for “sexy commercials”. Then I picked the ones with high numbers of views, and of course those I thought where good. Then I just put them in the order I thought they should be, and embedded the videos on the post itself. This way the reader didn’t have to leave the site to watch the videos.

When the post is all done, the actually work starts. How to get the snowball rolling? Well, its simple, I got 20 or so users digging it within a couple of hours then the video shows up on the upcoming list (on page 8 or 9 to start with) Then the article got 1-5 diggs per hour and it climbed the upcoming list pretty well, until I got 78 diggs and where on top on page 2. Then suddenly they pulled the plug for my article, and it was no where to be found. Not sure what happen though.

The good thing about this is that I got some nice amount of traffic from digg without crashing my server. If I would have hit front page I know for sure the server would have broken down and me kicked out.

This traffic is from now called “The Upcomming Digg Effect”.

As you can see the traffic aren’t that good, but the fact that somebody actually clicked to get on a new page is good. Remember, its free traffic.

On the above image you can clearly see that the further up on the upcoming page the article got, the more traffic it received. It’s really annoying that it got the plug pulled out just before the last page.

So, what did this traffic mean to me?
Well – to tell the truth I don’t think It meant a thing. Got one extra comment, and most probably my alexa number will be nice on the next update. Other then that, nothing. I don’t have any ads on the site, as as far as I can judge I did not get any new subscribers.

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The Upcoming Digg Effect

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