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Re:Make Frontpage of Slashdot, Reddit, Hacker News == Google... by onreact-com on Friday August 28, 2009 @03:39AM (#790958)
This is a well known issue with the so called Digg effect. I warned people years ago not to aim for Digg traffic because Adsense tracks page impressions and click throughs and Digg users behave like robots, flooding a site with requests and bouncing off right away.

[edit:] Reddit is even worse, higher bouncer rate (95%+), and even lower engagement than Digg.

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Re:Make Frontpage of Slashdot, Reddit, Hacker News == Google... by ars on Friday August 28, 2009 @04:41AM (#791026)
When you find an article on a site via digg you are supposed to check out the rest of the site?

That literally did not occur to me till I read your sentence.

I've certainly never done so, I've never even thought to do so. I've sometimes clicked a link inside the story text, but not often.

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Re:Make Frontpage of Slashdot, Reddit, Hacker News == Google... by onreact-com on Friday August 28, 2009 @05:13AM (#791062)
Digg is only for posting ugly comments and offending others so that's why you actually don't have to click or even read something on Digg. ;-)
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