Digg’s popular content - Analysis
October 13, 2008
Filed under
Bulk
I was wondering if there is a pattern about what content will be popular on Digg. So i dug myself in the world of digg and started counting. Yes, I was extremely bored.
The result was very interesting: while there is a very clear pattern of what categories will get the most diggs, the media doesn’t really matter. Here are two graphs: the first graph shows the top ten categories which got popular on Digg, most of them got a few thousand of diggs already.
Click to enlarge
As you see, the most popular category is clearly the Comedy category, followed by the US elections and then the Odd news.
On the media side there wasn’t a very clear winner:
Click to enlarge
Images are slightly more popular, but as I said the other two medias are just behind it.
So, if you desperately need traffic and you decide to submit your content to digg, make sure that it can be categorized as Comedy and it’s an image.
Happy digging
The charts were created with an online software named ChartAll.com.
Possible related posts (automatic):
Related posts brought to you by Yet Another Related Posts Plugin.
Comments
Tell us what you're thinking...
and oh, if you want a pic to show with your comment, go get a gravatar!
If you want to use your OpenID, fill out the field labeled "Website" with the OpenID URL. The other fields may remain empty.