7 is the new 10
So I lost a bet. Top 10 lists have long been the staple of bloggers, online writers, and one particular late night comedian. But like any “too much of a good thing”, I got into a discussion about “why top 10 lists”. Why not top 6 or top 9? A few interesting queries later, I was able to determine: do people really like top 10 stories? or has that number become so trite, so overused, that top 10 lists are ignored and overlooked. My guess, top 6 stories would be the most successful, my adversary (VP Malcolm Young) guessed top 7 lists. Top ? StoriesSubmitted StoriesPopular SuccessRate Top 12 34 16 47% Top 11 34 10 29% Top 10 1690 653 39% Top 9 10 2 20% Top 8 25 1 4% Top 7 90 53 59% Top 6 18 1 6% Top 5 558 162 29% Top 4 17 1 6% Top 3 40 3 8% At...
Digg Entourage: Whose Got Your Back on Digg
In the world of Social Bookmarking Sites there are two types of friends: your typical, every day friend, and your entourage. Your entourage is that group of friends that makes it a habit to promote you and your sites. Unfortunately, it is difficult to determine who is in your entourage when, in reality, they don’t even have to be your “friend”. So I spent a few hours throwing together the Digg Entourage Tool. By utilizing the fantastic Digg API, we can cycle through the last 25 stories submitted by a user, identify all of the diggs they receive, and organize individuals by their percentage of stories dugg. This is a great way to find and build friends across Digg without doing any hard work. No tags for this...
Proof Your SEO Company Stinks.
After David Naylor pointed out a site that had custom file extensions of “.seo” I decided to take a look at how common this obviously terrible practice is, expecting to find the audit trail of one stupid SEO firm. I was wrong. Grossly wrong. Take a look yourself: pages with a “.seo” file extension in google. Over 400,000. No tags for this post.
Google Analytics Gets a New Look
I must say I am pretty excited to get my hands on the new Google Analytics interface! It looks gorgeous and should make all the data mining a wee bit easier both on the eyes and on the time clock. If there is one thing that I am continually impressed about in relation to Google are the FREE tools they offer to the web community and the fact that they are attentive to these tools. From what I’ve seen (here too) there are some Ajax elements which allow of on the page restructuring as well as some enhanced reporting goodies that should help in making sense of the numbers… I received an email this morning and Google lists out some of the new features: Email and export reports: Schedule or send ad-hoc personalized report emails and export...
Digg Cliques: Friends, Fans and Succeeding on Digg
The friend and fan features are the most overlooked by Digg users, despite being the most valuable asset on the site. Friend features help you dig through the clutter to find up-coming stories without sifting and searching. The biggest power users on Digg exemplify how having large, strong networks of friends and fans can make all the difference on Digg. The numbers speak for themselves. Make friends and improve your Digg reputation. Here is a break down of multiple friend metrics for the top 100 Digg Users… Friends in the Top 100: How many Top 100 users on Digg have befriended this top user? Total Friends: How many others has this user befriended? Total Fans: How many others have befriended this user? Fan/Friend Ratio: What is the ratio of fans to friends...
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