1- Google Trends
http://www.google.com/trends

So first on the list is Google trends which can help you compare & study keywords / topics that are mostly searched in Google. You can enter up to 5 keywords or topics and Google trends will present you with data regarding how often they have been searched for, which geographical location the keywords are most important & a time line on the relevancy of the keyword / topic with past time. Located beneath the Search Volume Index graph is there News reference volume graph. This graph shows you the number of times your topic appeared in Google News stories. When Google Trends detects a spike in the volume of news stories for a particular search term, it labels the graph and displays the headline of an automatically selected Google News story written near the time of that spike.

Google trends also gives you a snapshot of the fastest rising searches for different points of time, you can see todays top 100 rising search queries with geographically targeted locations or you can see top keywords of the previous year.

2- Link Popularity Check
http://www.marketleap.com/publinkpop/

Link popularity check is one of the best ways to quantifiable and independently measure your website’s online awareness and overall visibility. Simply put, link popularity refers to the total number of links or “votes” that a search engine has found for your website.

3- Attention Meter
http://attentionmeter.com/

Attention meter is a simple tracking tool with which a user can have a measure of the traffic on his website. The user simply has to enter the URL’s of five websites with which he has to perform a comparison of the web traffic. The next step shows the status of his website in terms of traffic.

4- Popuri
http://popuri.us/
Popuri is an application which reveals the status web traffic for a website after two simple steps. Initially the user has to enter his website URL and then the URL’s of various search engines on which he has to perform a rating check. The next step reveals the position of the user’s website in terms of web traffic. This is a freeware and does not require the user to sign up.

5- Seo digger
http://seodigger.com/
This tool is a superb creation for search engine optimization and web marketing. How? I will tell you. With Seo digger the user can extract the key words which the top rated websites on search engines have used. This application is great assistance for web professional and traffic monitors. The website offers a free account which does not require registration. There is also an option available for a paid account

6- Quant cast
http://www.quantcast.com/
This application tracks web traffic and website users by entering the profiles of other websites. Quant cast co ordinates with legitimate publishers who provide a correct measure of the web traffic. This process is conducted with the help of a feature named Quantified Publisher. Quant cast is a facility for both advertisers and publishers. It is a freeware but the user is required to register for an account.
7- Spy Fu
http://www.spyfu.com/
Spy Fu allows a user to get a complete detail about his competitors in terms of web traffic. This detail includes all the key works which are used from marketing purposes and SEO techniques. It is not a freeware, how ever the facilities offered make the application worth purchasing so lets glance at a few of them. Spy provides a complete insight about the web traffic with respect to the key words but also according to the corporate category in which the particular company is listed.
8- Traffic Estimate
http://www.trafficestimate.com/
This application provides a user with an analysis of the web traffic a user gets on a search engine by entering a URL. The user simply needs to enter the URL of the web site and click the “estimate button’. After this simple twp step process the user gets an estimate of the web traffic. This is a freeware and does not require the user to register.

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.

Although you cant keep this a regular routine its not possible for every story you submit to reach the top pages of digg but some do and you can enjoy on that so the real question is how to get your story on the main page of the digg?

How to get the story on the Main Page of Digg ?

1. Unique story submitted at the right time
   The story your publish should be interesting, it should be weired and unique and suspicious, it should be confusing and raise the curiosity of the users. You can submit Videos / Images / Stories but they must follow the guideline above. If you are publishing a breaking news, like Microsoft Bid on Yahoo it should be the first submission before every body else around the world. I.e. you should publish it when Steve is thinking about the bid and you release the news on digg.
2. Title of the Story
   Yes title plays the key role, if you title your story as “Microsoft is going to bid on Yahoo” its not that exciting rather if you say “Yahoo is being acquired by Microsoft” then you have just raised attention and majority of dugg you get is due to the title.
3. Description of the Story
   After title you have to add description now don’t explain everything and just be brief and suspicious and add curiosity to the description of the story.
4. A Friend in need is a friend in deed at Digg
   You need friends at Digg, yes many friends, approximately about 1200 friends or more for your stories to reach the main page. The more the friends who dugg your story the more your chances of getting to the top. So get more friends you have to spend time on digg, connect with people who share stories and add them as friends. Its a bit long list work but its a good investment of time.
5. Seeding the Shots
   Now your story is published so now your market it after submission you reach the page of the story there you will see a link called “Shout” use that link and shot to your friends with sentences like ” please dugg and share your stories with me any time” such sentences clearly reflect tit for tat i.e. if they dugg your story your would dugg there stories, ps, majority of friends you have on dugg don’t know your they only remember you from your picture / avatar on digg or your user name rest they don’t care who you are and where you are from so keep your avatar unique and keep dugging your friends stories.