My previous post about the integrity of search engines hit the Digg frontpage. I greatly thank Elbert from Crunchlabz for posting it and giving it a boost to the frontpage!

In the past, I’ve written numerous posts about Digg, the front page of the largest social news site and what it’s all about. Until then, I never had such a success at Digg before. So now I can write a post about my experiences and answer the question; is it worth reaching the front page of Digg?

For the amount of visitors, yes it is worth the shot. Today, I’ve reached the 2.000 unique visitors, due to the Digg front page. Too bad 90% of these new visitors, only check the post they clicked on and then close their browser. But most of the people that write a post like this one, say that this is a habit of the people that come across a site via Digg.

For the amount of comments, yes it is worth the shot. I’ve had 23 new comments, from people that haven’t commented before on my blog. Just over 10 comments have subscribed by email for receiving new comments on that thread. They will receive a email once a new comment has been posted, so they might just pop in again (and again, and again… ).

This first shot at the Digg frontpage for this blog, also added 17 new RSS subscribers to my RSS feed. People like them might want to read more what I’m posting about. 17 new subscribers don’t seem to be that much, but for a small (re)starting blog like mine, every new subscriber counts.

If we count this all up, I’d say that it’s worth the shot!