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
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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!
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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 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 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 8, 2007 at 17:10pm
What is Favicon.ico
Favicon (short for “favorites icon”) is a small icon special for websites what appear before title in browsers or when you have bookmark some page in list of bookmarks. In Yandex.ru search engine favicon.ico also appear before title of site while searching. Favicon, also known as a page icon or an urlicon, is an icon associated with a particular website or webpage. You can define a favicon by placing a file called favicon.ico in the root directory of your server.
Favicon Generators
There are a lot of favicon generators (or it can calls as favicon creator) you can find in search engines. For example, http://favicon.co.uk. There you can upload your image in any format and get .ico format image (download favicon), thats all. Generally, favicon generators are commercial software but you can find and free ones.
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