I figured I would share a bit of insight into my most recent recent visit to the Digg homepage. The results were ming boggling to say the least. As I watched the stats rise, I jaw dropped. I got on the phone with Neil Patel (recent interview) and asked him the question of how many unique visits should a Digg homepage post send. He responded with a few questions of his own having to do with when it was submitted, how many diggs did it receive, and so on. After I answered those questions he estimated that I would have received 10,000 visits or so. When I told him of my results, he too was shocked!

Basically, depending upon which source you value, I brought in between 40,902 and 49,367 visitors on day one of the digg effect. Not bad traffic at all for a post that took my about 15 minutes to write up.

This is Webalizer’s view of the traffic sent:

This is Google Analytic’s view of the traffic sent:

This is MyBlogLog’s view of the traffic sent:

In this new age of social media sites popping up quicker than you can say “web 2.0″, there are an over-abundance of choices out there as to where you will spend your social time on the web. Another viewpoint resides with the internet marketer that is trying to drive traffic to his site in more creative ways outside of PPC, SEO, or SEM. My questions to you today have to do with which of the social media sites do you find yourself spending more and more time with? Why do you feel that is the case? If you had to pick a favorite, which would it be?

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