Who Says You Can’t Make Money Off Digg Users?

it's hard to get to the front page i think i will never make it :cry:

It's getting harder to get on the digg homepage - 99% of the stuff there these days seems to be open source or Apple articles :(

I haven't been digged on any of my sites yet, but now that my server transfer has been completed I think my sites would be able to handle the traffic surge if it were to come.

I think what everyone has said is right though, I'd love to see someone try and make money off of digg users when it wasn't something tech related.

OK, but which social network is the best: Digg, ReddIt, MaGnolia...?
And whose front page is the easiest to get on?

Very interesting:)
Busts a few myths that you hear on a lot of SEM forums and blogs. Good to see a real case study and some techniques that can be used.

Jeez, 30k visitors in one day! Thats how much I've had in 6 months!!!

You really are the master of the CPM. I don't know anyone else who could make that much money off fickle digg users...

does he hire someone to digg his post?

No Diggs for me, I'm new this blogstuff :roll:
I love it when you show any kind of stats like this though. It's always nice to get guages of what a successful site can do for motivational purposes.

31,000 unique visitors and 50,000 page views in one day that's so crazy!

I'm sure there is a lot of good that can come from getting on the front page of digg, whether it be cash, or RSS subscribers, it's getting to the front page that might take some work.

digg provides good traffic for your website

So - are all front page digg posters just there because they work in these groups, or are some of the digg articles genuine? Did you not get banned from digg John? What did you do to get banned? Was it worth it?

I read Digg on a daily basis and an article like this is something that I'd probably just pass right over. So imagine the numbers on an article that didn't only appeal to a select niche. While Digg is predominantly visited by tech-savvy individuals, it doesn't mean that the tech-savvy are interested in only technology related posts.

-That is very impressive.. I myself have made some goody money from digg users, I made $50 on adsense with my first front page digg and that was when I was averaging a dollar a day

Yeah, I wouldn't mind making extra money for digging... Although I think digg is really good for SEO, not necessarily for selling anything...

Wow, that review was very well written... let's have a look at the byline on ThinkComputers. :lol:

That's one example, on the other hand I've had lots of diggs myself on sites and not made much more... a bit, but not much.

I never thought Digg was predominately Tech related, I've seen all kinds of stuff on there.

I tried joining one of those get paid to digg sites, wasn't that great..

You know, I've been under this impression that everything needs to be powered by Wordpress. But it appears Think Computers is powered by an old school CMS like php-nuke, etc. And it actually works for them. It's kinda refreshing to visit a site that's not a "yet another wordpress blog" site.

It's nice to see that someone is indeed making money from a huge Digg-driven traffic surge. I do question the images next to the Google ad, the pairing of images with the ads does seem to improve clicks, but is against G's TOS.

While some Digg users wont click, it is obvious from this that many will...

I would love to see an article explaining the secrets of getting dugg? Since Digg is predominately tech-related... it's hard to gain immense popularity on a site that is anything other than that or general humor.

Wow 500 bucks in one day is a lot of green ones. Are there any tips besides writing a cool article how to get it to the front page?

Digg concept is amazing and it works well, I use it all the time and have been since the day one. However getting yourself on the front page is not an easy task. I have tried in the past but it never worked. Hope Kevin Rose and Co. is making some decent cash from the site, because they got some serious traffic on it.

I had a review on a Samsung 32" HD LCD screen promoted to the front page.. it stayed there for 45 minutes before being burried..

in 45 minutes, I made 40$ via Chitika.. If the story would have stayed there, I probably would have made around 400$ in the next 2-3 days.. but hey, $40 is better than nothing, and I still get residual income from selling 4-5 TV per month on amazon..

Oh and john, yes you can make money out of Amazon.com.. In average, I make around 35 to 40$ per TV I sell.. My Amazon.com check will be near $200 this month, and that's for putting a single text link inside a paragraph. :cool:

I can't say that I've ever been Dugg, Digged? But I do know that it make sense that the ads need to match the content in order to get the clicks. Now if onl I could catch the Digg wave. :evil:

After looking at his post I'd be willing to bet most of the AdSense came from the ads to the right of the two images above the content.

John!

You are going to ruin it for the rest of us! Diggers are known for not clicking on ads but I have managed to pull down a few hundred dollars from a front page digg story. A large number of digg users do block ads (mostly adsense) but when the content is designed to make somebody buy something (a review with proper advertising links) then yes, you can make a boatload off of digg.

The thing is that most blog content that ends up on digg is not properly optimized. You find the google ads often have nothing to do with the post i.e "win a free laptop!" on a post about lolcats.

Product reviews are always the exception when you build the post specificaly to funnel traffic through an aff link or an advertiser that matches the product.

The comments are correct...Digg is mostly for humor and tech news. I wonder what's the Digg equivalent for money/finance related sites? Any clue?
-Raymond (MONEY BLUE BOOK)

The ultimate goal in monetization is If you monetize properly most of the time people click on "ads" they wont realize it and if they do they'll be glad you referred them to the product.

ok, thanks for tips for how to optimize ads when we are on digg front page.

What's about how to get digg front page? :twisted:

I wonder what the Digg effect would be to the RSS Subscribers count.