My Geek Notes

So, you know me, I’m always conducting experiments to find ways to drive traffic to Web sites.

Recently, I decided to try my hand at a little video blogging - working to get a single site of user-generated content to $500/month. While the site’s not at that point yet, it’s starting to do well, and one of my baby video posts is currently getting dugg pretty well. As I write this, the post is less than 24 hours old and it’s gotten 21 diggs (which destroys the myth that stories submitted by new accounts don’t do well.

I created this particular Digg account yesterday for the express purpose of promoting videos I post to this video blog. The account was created yesterday and the story submitted yesterday as well.

In less than 24 hours, the single post has brought over 200 unique visitors to my site, resulting in 21 Diggs and 4 subscriptions. I’ll post updated numbers later once it settles down, but I wanted to get some of the data out here now.