The Nuffnang Innit Effect – A Mini Digg Effect?

Hey guys, for the past 24 hours (nearly) my post of a list of paid blogging networks was shown as some of the most popular posts in Nuffnang Innit. Being one of the most popular posts, even though it’s only the most popular in the last 24 hours and not all popular, I received a huge wave of traffic and readers from Nuffnang Innit. I call this wave of traffic the Nuffnang Innit effect and it is a really welcomed effect by me as it brings in a swarm of traffic and new visitors.

Nuffnang Innit is a blog aggregator by Nuffnang which works like Digg where members get to vote and decide which are the more popular posts and only open to Glitterati members. Nuffnang Innit is also frequently used to drive traffic to member blogs although the success of Nuffnang Innit as a means of traffic driving has been questionable until now. In this post is all the evidence you need of the Nuffnang Innit effect.

The top 10 last popular posts are shown in Innit’s homepage while the top 5 last popular posts are shown in the homepage of Nuffnang bloggers. My post got into the most popular in the last 24 hours within 4 hours of submission and was displayed both in the Nuffnang Innit frontpage and the homepage of Nuffnang’s bloggers. Not too bad right?

See my post at the top there with 30 Nang’s.

The Nuffnang Innit effect brought me about 100 over visits within 24 hours. I never have gotten the Digg effect before, but it should resemble something like the Nuffnang Innit effect – only on a larger scale. You must admit that this is pretty good free traffic. Best of all, all this traffic originates from either Malaysia or Singapore. As you can see the average time on site is like pathetic, but then again I later found out that my posts permalink had changed and my visitors were getting a “not found” sign. What a waste of traffic, all thanks to Windows Live Writer which frequently posts my posts under a wrong timestamp as it doesn’t follow the TimeZone properly. Oh well. At least some of the visitors were enterprising enough to click on the paid blogging category and find the post.

Note: As the Nuffnang Innit effect usually lasts for about 24 hours (until it expires from the most popular in the last 24 hours category), I measure the Nuffnang Innit effect over 2 days, as I submitted quite late in the day, so the 24 hour period spills over to the next day. As the Nuffnang Innit effect also spills over the 24 hours period, some of this statistics in the picture might be an underestimate of the Nuffnang Innit effect. The statistics and figures might not be entirely accurate as it reflect some traffic from search engines and everything, but the main reason of the pictures is to show the dramatic increase in traffic due to the Nuffnang Innit effect on a macroscale and not a microscale.

See the spike in traffic?  From 20 visitors a day up to 80 visitors a day. 147 visits over 1 full day and another incomplete day (today).

Here are some more statistics of the Nuffnang Innit effect as seen by Reinvigorate . Look at the picture below, 76 from referred sites, about 70 of them from Nuffnang Innit and this only represents about 15 hours of the Nuffnang Innit effect.

Yup, the Nuffnang Innit effect is good for site traffic.

Look at the 2 tallest columns here. That’s the Nuffnang Innit effect over a period of just 2 days (the 15th isn’t a complete day as today hasn’t ended. Which means it should reflect more).From this trending data view you can easily see the difference and the impact of the Nuffnang Innit effect.

Nuffnang Innit effect again at work here.

Nuffnang Innit does indeed drive traffic to your site, especially if your posts is one the most popular ones, even if only in the last 24 hours. As the Nuffnang Innit effect is quite large for smaller blogs like mine, I suggest to you to be a Nuffnang Glitterati member if only just to be able to use Innit and gain the full benefit of the Nuffnang Innit effect.

If you’re here from Innit, please Nang me now!

So all your Nuffnanger’s, what are your thoughts on the Nuffnang Innit effect?