Is digg.com Bad for Bloggers?

The website digg.com is high on the blogging world’s radar for 2 things: it is coming close to replicating the vaunted “Slashdot effect” and it just raised over $2 million in funding. For the average Blogger, this is fertile territory.

As we speak, a story by our own David Johnston is on the front door of Digg and the traffic is pouring in (note the “666″ in our Digg total above), but here’s a website called Tech Recipies that says the traffic from Digg is as hollow and nutritious as Halloween candy.

“Digg users do not click ads. Webmasters should stop trying to game the system to get the traffic. The increased traffic will use up your bandwidth and will risk slowing down or crashing your server. In the short run, getting on the front page is more likely to cost you money than make you money if you are depending on ads for your revenue.”

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