First Article to the Top of Digg
Thought I would share some exciting news. Blogtown Press had it’s first article to make it to the front page of Digg, all news! The article is from Aloha Update and is about Dog “The Bounty Hunter” Chapman and his recent back and fourth with the Mexican authorities. You can see the digg article here and vote or comment. At writing this it’s been Dugg 1,234 times and commented 233 times.
The article was briefly at the top spot overall, stayed on the front page of all topics for a few hours, and now is slowly working it’s way down the top all news. It’s still on the front page of Digg-Entertainment News and the screenshot above was from earlier this morning (HST) where we were the fourth.
Many people have top digg articles all the time but for Blogtown Press it’s a first. We were receiving about 1200 hits an hour and that’s slowly tapering off to the mid 100’s. Every once in a while the server gets a little bogged down but not too bad.
I’m anxious to see what this does to incoming links. We’ve picked up on about 3 or 4 trackbacks so far and there are over 45 comments on the article alone.
Just thought I would share some excitement with everyone else. 
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Time: February 22, 2007, 9:27 am
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