Posted by Sergey Koksharov on December 20, 2007 at 05:12am
Recently my story on the Digg.com was made popular and my website got a lot of visits from there. Unfortunately, it turned out that Digg users was useless for the general picture. Here I cite as an example the Google Analytics results on December 9, 2007 for GetAWallpaper.com website.
The whole website picture before and after Digg pulling
Click on the picture to see in better quality
Conclusion about Digg.com users effectiveness
1. With help of Digg.com you can receive a lot of users, most of them will be unique. If your story is hot, so you can receive in avarage 10.000-20.000 users per day. The visitors going as from Digg.com as from other Digg clones and websites what use digg stories.
2. Bounce rate will increase because most of visitors just watching one page and closing the browser. A little percent of visitors will be interested in your content and continue website surfing.
3. The main benefit of hot stories is what after two days effect visits on your site from search engines like google.com, yahoo.com, live.com will be growing as well as from social bookmark websites.
The most of Digg users are webmasters and interested in submitting stories (IMHO), not reading them. So, be careful when posting your own story. You should know what exactly category is correspond to your content and what auditory you’ll attract on your website. My server was falling down 3 or 4 times while I haven’t optimized sql queries 
useless traffic is not good!
Posted by Sergey Koksharov on December 13, 2007 at 16:12pm
Although most professional search engine optimizers agree that the green PageRank display has little to do with the actual performance of a website in Google and other search engines, many webmasters still focus on websites with a high PageRank when it comes to link building and website promotion.
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Posted by Sergey Koksharov on December 6, 2007 at 03:12am
Just as he was the first to talk about IE7, Bill Gates kept the tradition alive and discussed IE8 at the Mix ‘n Mash event here on campus yesterday. Bill was talking to some bloggers about IE.Next and called it IE8, the same way we do here in the IE team hallway.
So, yes, the version after IE7 is IE8. We looked at a lot of options for the product name. Among the names we considered and ruled out:
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Posted by Sergey Koksharov on November 17, 2007 at 16:11pm
Verification Process
This article outlines procedures and algorithms for Verifying the accuracy and validity of credit card numbers. Most credit card numbers are encoded with a “Check Digit”. A check digit is a digit added to a number (either at the end or the beginning) that validates the authenticity of the number. By running the algorithm, and comparing the check digit you get from the algorithm with the check digit encoded with the credit card number, you can verify that you have correctly read all of the digits and that they make a valid combination. Its useful when a user has keyed in a credit card number (or scanned it) and you want to validate it before sending it our for debit authorization.
Here is a table outlining the major credit cards that you might want to validate.
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Posted by Sergey Koksharov on October 27, 2007 at 11:10am
PR Up
All SEOs are feeling happy! But not all webmasters
As you can see with new Google algorithm all paid links are not counted in new PR. Many sites have PR Down. But also we have many Ups
www.bigweblinks.com 7 > 4
www.marqueetool.net 5 > 4
www.clush.com 7 > 5
www.worldlancers.com 0 > 2
And so on.. you can check yourself.
Posted by Sergey Koksharov on October 24, 2007 at 16:10pm
High Paying Keywords
By knowing the most expensive keywords on the internet, you can create websites and web pages based on these keywords. On these sites and pages, you can serve expensive ads and/or promote affiliate offers.
Understanding keyword pricing is critical to the online advertising, PPC search engine and affiliate marketing businesses – businesses that combine for over $25 billion a year in revenues. With a market of this size, generating substantial profits, if you have the right information, is really not that challenging.
Focusing on the right kind of keywords is important for the success of any webmaster. It is essential to identify the keywords that are high paying, have more traffic, but less competition.
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Posted by Sergey Koksharov on October 23, 2007 at 16:10pm
How Google Ads disappeared from my site
Recently I had a problem with Google Ads on my blog. After publication a second story about Internet Explorer Bug on my site was only shown only public service ads. I was seeking the solution but all attempts was failed. Then I wrote request to Adsense Google Team. It’s described below.
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Posted by Sergey Koksharov on October 14, 2007 at 17:10pm
List of Stop Words
Stop words, or stopwords, is the name given to words which are filtered out prior to, or after, processing of natural language data (text). Below is a full list of english stop words what may be useful for webmasters. Some of search systems recognizes certain words as being not important for searches and removes those words from a search.
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Posted by Sergey Koksharov on October 13, 2007 at 07:10am
What is Social Bookmark?
Of course, most of people (especially webmasters) are closely familiar with social bookmarks websites. They helps us to find one or another good website worthy of respect. Also saving bookmark you give ability to use other users your website (bookmark) as an excuse. In other words you give them prompting and have ability to influence on stranger choice. Originally, social bookmarking is a way for Internet users to store, organize, share and search bookmarks of web pages. In a social bookmarking systems, users save links to web pages that they want to remember and/or share.
Social Bookmarking Websites
There are a lot of sites devoted to social bookmarking. We give you here a most of useful, popular and ranked (as for webmaster) social bookmarking services and hope it will help you in your search engine optimization work. 
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Posted by Sergey Koksharov on October 10, 2007 at 15:10pm
Issue with JavaScript Onload Function
In beginning of this year after successfull learning of new IE7 I’ve came face to face to unexplained behaviour of Internet Explorer and only now I can say what this behaviour also exists in IE6 too. (If anybody from you can test in on IE5 and comment here it would be very nice and useful). Essence in the following. When I use onload function for image its must called when function have loaded, but if I use animated image then function called with any new frame loaded. See this example of IE Bug with onload function (make sure what you are using Internet Explorer). For animated images it just loops and never complete. You can make benchmark of IE bug by yourself using following code.
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