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Nielson: Digg Traffic Sucks

“People arriving through these sources are notoriously fickle and are probably not in your target audience. You should expect most of them to leave immediately, once they’ve satisfied their idle curiosity.”

As a Digg user myself, this article is quite accurate in regards to my Digg-user habits.  The quality of the content has gone down considerably since I signed up several years ago and the presence of a popularity contest has become king.  I do check it daily to stay hip on whats viral for the day, but it’s definitely not the content rich community RSS reader it used to be.  So sorry front page articles, I am your empty traffic.  Enjoy the Google AdSense $$.