The Digg effect….

Well since my story was submitted to Digg (Thanks Mitemous) it has gained 414 diggs and briefly yesterday I made the front page! As experiments go (I havent done much with Digg before) this was quite a shock.. yesterday this site had just over 10,000 uniques! For some that may still be small but for me thats spectacular day. My logs also show 1200 add to favourites… no pressure now then….

Thanks to my good friend Pilky (Watch the insults campercan boy ) who grabbed a screenshot for me and for his blog..

Here is the screenshot and also a graph of the traffic for the last few days….

And on top of all that Mr Cutts has commented over on Threadwatch… heres the two comments

Matt Cutts
I’d be surprised if they were related in any way. I thought the cartoon was funny, and I doubt anyone else would even get/understand/notice the cartoon. I certainly didn’t forward the cartoon to anyone else at Google; just got a chuckle out of it myself.

SEOidiot
Matt – Thanks for the clarification – I dont really think it was you, its more likely that the invalid clicks came from a 3rd party who took it the wrong way.
I have played it a bit heavy on the Matt gets my account banned but i have a serious reason, I along with an increasing number of publishers are starting to realise quite how inpersonal the banning process is from Google. Whilst i understand that you really didnt ban my account i hope that as the face of Google you can influence the policy towards clickfraud bans for all the remaining publishers.. publishers who make Google the majority of their income.