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!
Comments Off
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. 
Read the rest of this entry »
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.
Read the rest of this entry »