The Digg Effect

Well a lot of people have e-mailed me as well as left comments asking me how much of a traffic boost the digg gave ThinkGaming. Well first off ThinkGaming was barely doing any real traffic, maybe about 100 uniques a day. That is mainly because I haven’t had much time to work on it and it was mostly news posts no real articles or anything like that.

As you can see from the graph above the Digg caused a huge traffic spike. Over 16,000 uniques in one day. That is sure a big boost from 100 uniques a day! Getting digg’s is always a great way for traffic, but they do not happen that often. You really have to rely on good content and constant content. If you want to have good constant traffic you have to keep your site updated. This has been the hard part with ThinkGaming. Right now I am running ThinkComputers, ThinkGaming, and one other site along with this blog. I am the only one doing all of the work so I have to post all the news, do all the reviews, respond to e-mails etc. I have to do this and still make time for my girlfriend and some free time! Let’s just say this is a hard thing to do!

Since the digg I have been managing to keep ThinkGaming updated. I have been making around 2 posts a day, which is nothing compared to the larger gaming sites, but hey I’m one person! Hopefully these constant updates will keep people coming back. I also plan to write at least 3 – 4 articles a month. Let’s see if I can keep that goal!