Comments on: Lying with web traffic figures http://www.bivingsreport.com/2008/lying-with-web-traffic-figures/ The Bivings Report (TBR) is a source of news, insight, research and analysis on the web-based communications industry. TBR content is posted, created and managed by internet strategists, media/communications analysts, web developers, designers and programmers, all of whom are employees of The Bivings Group. Mon, 15 Mar 2010 15:47:12 -0400 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: e.politics: online advocacy tools & tactics » Quick Hits — February 15, 2008 http://www.bivingsreport.com/2008/lying-with-web-traffic-figures/comment-page-1/#comment-283719 e.politics: online advocacy tools & tactics » Quick Hits — February 15, 2008 Fri, 15 Feb 2008 17:12:34 +0000 http://www.bivingsreport.com/2008/lying-with-web-traffic-figures/#comment-283719 [...] Lying with web traffic figures. [...] [...] Lying with web traffic figures. [...]

]]> By: Todd Zeigler http://www.bivingsreport.com/2008/lying-with-web-traffic-figures/comment-page-1/#comment-283517 Todd Zeigler Thu, 14 Feb 2008 18:18:23 +0000 http://www.bivingsreport.com/2008/lying-with-web-traffic-figures/#comment-283517 Tom - I'm sure Digg was responsible for driving some links our way. But I think the influx of traffic it brings leads people to overestimate its important. Links we've gotten from blogs like Buzz Machine and Romenesko have driven less traffic, but lead to bigger bumps in RSS subscribers and repeat visitors than our appearance on Digg did. Tom – I’m sure Digg was responsible for driving some links our way. But I think the influx of traffic it brings leads people to overestimate its important. Links we’ve gotten from blogs like Buzz Machine and Romenesko have driven less traffic, but lead to bigger bumps in RSS subscribers and repeat visitors than our appearance on Digg did.

]]> By: tom pitts http://www.bivingsreport.com/2008/lying-with-web-traffic-figures/comment-page-1/#comment-283504 tom pitts Thu, 14 Feb 2008 15:25:17 +0000 http://www.bivingsreport.com/2008/lying-with-web-traffic-figures/#comment-283504 i think you are misunderestimating getting on the front page of digg. for instance your article that made the front page of digg built <a href="http://search.yahoo.com/search?p=link%3Ahttp%3A%2F%2Fwww.bivingsreport.com%2F2007%2Ffive-technologies-that-will-impact-the-2008-election-cycle%2F++-site%3Abivingsreport.com" rel="nofollow">a good number of incoming links</a> to your site. a good amount of these were probably directly related to getting so much exposure from digg. these incoming links help build your domain's search engine authority and help drive search traffic to ALL of your articles. i think you are misunderestimating getting on the front page of digg.

for instance your article that made the front page of digg built a good number of incoming links to your site. a good amount of these were probably directly related to getting so much exposure from digg.

these incoming links help build your domain’s search engine authority and help drive search traffic to ALL of your articles.

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