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I got digged - The digg effect

So I woke up this morning bleary eyed to check my sites/stats/etc as I normally do and I noticed quite a lot of users online..

This is normal though, sometimes I get hit by trackback spambots and have 50-60 users online, but this time, they were legitimate, and all looking at the same story - How to use RSS feeds on your Wordpress site.

RSS for Wordpress

Then I thought hmm...so I checked my sitemeter, and low and behold I had a whole load of referrals from digg!

digged

Hmm so I checked the traffic for today, yup a massive spike!

digg effect

And there I was, my face on the front page of digg and my story on my little blog :D

digg front page

I've seen other people get 35,000 hits in a day from the digg effect, so hopefully the traffic a) will keep coming and b) won't crash the server :) Seems pretty steady so far.

Something like the Slashdot effect but I think not so extreme :)

Anyway here's the digg URL:

http://digg.com/programming/How_to_use_RSS_Feeds_on_your_Wordpress_Site

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