I have been running this site for well over 2 years now, and have experienced my share of ups and downs in terms of hits and fans coming to this site. However it wasn’t until this past week that I noticed something out of the ordinary. Usually during E3 this site experiences a large boost in traffic and bandwidth usage, as it is with most conferences and trade show events.
Yet, as I sit here and monitor the sites users and activity I wonder why we are not experiencing the usual effects that we have in the past. The simple reason is the site is not receiving the usual amount of links regarding the E3 event and the information that we are covering. Then you have to account the sites that download our media and information and don’t credit us. The most frustrating may have to do with information that the site has gathered while monitoring the conferences and boosting news and bits that most people care about and filtering out the boring parts. That is especially annoying when other sites that get information from us just restate what we have said and don’t link to us, or just link to where we were getting out conference information and pretend like they read it.
Of course I cannot back that information up entirely, I can though state I do know a little but about the web and other webmasters regards for crediting others, but that’s not entirely the real issue.
It would seem the main problem that I am having is in regards to Digg.com. Digg is a site in which users post news about things that they like or find interesting and other people Digg them and thus giving them importance and front page ranking. However as a result, many people only get to see the big sites that post the news and don’t get see the little man. So my real problem here is that while Digg is a great place to find news, it is hurting the little guys, which are the fan sites like me.
With what prove do I have? That is easy, I have been attempting to get on Digg.com with some of the news I have posted and even have an article still sitting on Digg about the Zelda: Twilight Princess E3 Trailer, of which on one else has. And yet I only received 22 Diggs on the story thus far. I also noticed while I was hoping for it to blossom and gain popularity that about 30+ Halo 3 news post were submitted to Digg flooding it with the exact same thing over and over and over, but guess what? Nearly all of those post received more Diggs than my story, and I was totally dumb-founded at why people were not Digging my story.
Now, some of you may say, well maybe people love Halo? This I already know, so I back up my theory with more information. Another story on Digg about Zelda was the one regarding it’s features on the Wii, something that any idiot with an opinion could guess at if they knew anything about the console. The Story found on Joystiq received more than 1700 diggs with a days time. So it makes me wonder why people wouldn’t want to see the actual gameplay? or are they just interested in information?
Either way ever since Digg came around I have noticed a large decline in my referrals from sites that usually linked to me often on various topics, however with so many people at one place (on Digg.com) looking and finding stories the second they are released it makes it hard for fansites to get any credit or acknowledgement for their findings.
No spite on Digg.com, I just kind of wish the site was made after E3, I could use the unique boost 
