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...
The Great Search Engine Hypocrisy
The clearest, most consistent opinion voiced by the major search engines to webmasters is this… Show the bots what you show your users. It is a fairly simple proposition that has been applied to the vast majority of grey and black hat search technologies: cloaking, ip-delivery, doorway pages, and keyword stuffing. Essentially every type of search spam, even link spam tangentially, relates to this premise. So let’s look at the latest incarnations of search engine hypocrisy waged by both Google and Yahoo. 1. The NoFollow Tag. Originally, webmasters were held accountable for each and every outbound link. The industry even developed a name for the unfavorable sites which webmasters should avoid linking: “bad neighborhoods”. While websites were...
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