Stumbleupon and Digg - Which is better?
If you don’t know already, Stumbleupon and are both popular Social Bookmarking websites that are commonly used by webmasters in an attempt to increase website traffic.
Both of them have their positives and negatives, and they’re going to be discussed so you know which of them is the best.
StumbleUpon
StumbleUpon is a social bookmarking website where if people like your website/webpage, they can “Stumble” your website and maybe even add a review about it. This will increase the popularity of your website/webpage on StumbleUpon because it will appear higher on the Search, and hopefully get you more traffic.
Positives
- Is known to send constant traffic to websites
- Can easily be manipulated by asking people to Stumble
- Popular, so a lot more people will see your website
Negatives
- Doesn’t really send a big amount of traffic all at once
- Users don’t generally click ads or anything
- If you can’t get people to stumble it in the first place, then you won’t get anything from it
Digg
Digg is a social bookmarking website, like StumbleUpon, but its arranged completely differently. With Digg, if people like your webpage or article, they can “Digg” it and then will be added to a total of Diggs you have. Basically, its like a voting system, the more diggs you get, the higher you’ll get in the categories.
Positives
- If on the frontpage, can send massive traffic at once
- Very popular, great for traffic
- In some ways easy to manipulate, but they catch out spam submissions and spam diggs
Negatives
- Doesn’t send constant traffic, normally starts high and then slows down a lot
- Very difficult to get on the frontpage unless it is a really good article
- Digg are on the lookout for people exchanging diggs
Conclusion
In my opinion, the best out of the two is Digg. This is because if you create quality articles that people want to read, and you know how to get a few diggs to start with, it can send a massive amount of traffic (Especially if on the frontpage). If you get onto the frontpage, you could expect around 50,000 visitors on your website within a couple of days! StumbleUpon is good, but it just doesn’t have the same effect.
Stumble it!
