Digital Grabber got its first Digg today for this article. For those who don’t know, Digg.com is one of the big three news sites. Getting a story on the Digg front page means a lot of traffic and we all know, traffic equals money.
The above graph was taken at 10:30PM. As you can see, the Digg came at around 5:00PM and jumped traffic 20 times above normal! The site should finish the day with 25,000 page views, which will be a new record. How does this translate to revenue? Not that great I’m afraid. Let me explain.
The first problem is the Digg was done to an article and not a review. This created problems with targeting ads for it. As hard as I tried, TTZ Media Network simply did not have a 60″ subwoofer among its list of products. So no targeted TTZ Media banner was ran except for the 160 sky that shows random hardware. Google did a fair job targeting the article by showing subwoofer ads. However, this is an article about a 60″ subwoofer, the only one of its kind and not for sale anywhere. Most peole reading this article are reading out of curiosity instead of really looking for a sub. As a result, the Google AdSense click rate was way off what it normally is. The site will still enjoy its best Google day ever because of the sheer number of visitors.
To get around low CPC rate, you should always try to mix in some CPM ads with the CPC. This is where Vibrant Media IntelliTXT comes in. Now before you tell me IntelliTXT is CPC and not CPM, you’re right, IntelliTXT is CPC … for normal publishers. However, I’m anything but normal. Not only do I have a flat CPM rate but I can limit the number of links and change link color away from that ugly green. The nice thing about running a CPM ad is you don’t have to worry about the ads being clicked on; the ad just has to load. And the IntelliTXT links loaded enough times today to make it the number 1 money maker.
My estimate is that this Digg will make Digital Grabber $125.00, which will be a new daily record. As Diggs go, this one wasn’t worth as much as some of the past Diggs. Had the Digg been made to Digital Grabber’s router review, it would have made over $500.00 easy. But we take what we can get, right?