How many backlinks does getting Dugg get you?
February 7th, 2007
Two days ago Google released a new feature in their webmaster tools which display who is linking to your website. It was interesting to see that two of my posts which were recently on digg.com had several times more backlinks than my home page.
Home Page - 0 diggs - 531 backlinks
Top 100 Duplicate Digg Comments - 1931 diggs - 4478 backlinks
Digg User Comment Statistics - 1180 diggs - 2416 backlinks
From my very limited data set it seems like you get over as twice as many backlinks as there are diggs. I am willing to bet this is on the low side because these posts were very digg specific and not to as much interest to non-digg users. If anyone has any else has a page that got dugg recently(and didn’t have a series-of-tubes-load of backlinks beforehand) please let me know and I will post the data here.
Ilya Lichtenstein said:
Hey Kris,
I’ve enjoyed reading your blog, particularly your work in data mining and statistics from social networks like Digg. My own research often tends to lead me in similar directions. I am very impressed with your work,and would really like to chat about it further. Drop me an email, and let’s set up a time we can chat. I think you’ll find it worth your while to get in touch.
Best,
Ilya