Posts Tagged ‘digg’

Digg & its Traffic dump

Saturday, February 16th, 2008

Digg the famous social network which shares quality of content is an essential playground for many web owners, so far digg has made two very strong foundations, one is quality / quantity of content it provides and second is SEO of every story published on digg.

Digg works in a very simple way, you submit your story linked to the source of the story which could be your blog or any other web and send a shout of your story to your friends in the digg community, if your friends like the story they digg the story and every dugg received by the story increases its value in the digg community. If in a limited time your story receives more then 150 dugg’s your story becomes popular and if digg staff think its a good story they make it popular and bring it to the front page. Now this is where the fun starts.

Within minutes your story source which could be your website starts receiving more then +50000 unique visitors your traffic grows at a very rapid speed, apart from digg your story’s URL get picked up by many other web sites which you have never heard of and it adds more traffic to your blog / site. But the bad part is this all is temporary, for 1-2 week your receive traffic which steadily declines and goes down and down and eventually your traffic returns to normal. (more…)

Social Networking Firefox Addons / extensions for firefox

Saturday, February 9th, 2008

5 essential Firefox Addons for Social Networking
Why not bring your social network life into your browser, i have collected and organized a list of Firefox Ad Ons that will bring our favorite social networking life into our browser, it will add ease of use to access, modify and update with sites like facebook, twitter, digg, YouTube.

Social Networking Addons for Firefox
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Facebook Extension for Firefox.
First Comes “Facebook” with an average of above 150 million user subscription, facebook has made its self the no1 social networking website. So the “Facebook toolbar for Firefox” is an essential.

Facebook Add on

Once installed the Facebook Toolbar brings your facebook life to your browser every time you open up the browser you are logged into facebook, you can search facebook, get notified of the pokes, friends requests and messages you receive. A pop-up will notify when friends update there status, write a note or interact with you on facebook. You can also open your friends sidebar, sort them and keep in touch with them. Apart from that if you run groups or a network on facebook you can share content directly from your browser what else do you need. (more…)