How to Generate Good Traffic via Digg

digg-logoEveryone knows that if they want to get their blog/website visible and well-known by people, then social bookmarking via Digg website is must.

What if nobody visits your website? What would be the value of your web site?  If you have fewer visitors it means you have a very bad traffic, and obviously if you don’t have any traffic your website will not give you any benefit.

Every webmaster has a common target to achieve a high Page Rank (Aka PR) and to top the search engines. Many webmasters spend huge bucks on those pricey marketing strategies and buy links to get high PR links. Buying links could increase your PR but, it cannot give you a large amount of visitors.

How to Digg?

Digging is very easy, just log into your digg account, submit your each story to digg and try to select an exact category for your story. Once you’re done with the submission of the story it will get display on most recent story page.

To get your story on the front page of Digg, you need some digg’s i.e. a number which increase when some digg users suggest your story. You will get more visibility on digg, if you have more digg points. If someone who already have digg many stories, and that person is one of the top digg users, he digg your story then you will be directory gone into his digg list. And then you will have a backlink from high PR page, because your story will be more visible on digg pages.

Story content is the most important thing you should work on. Just think of before posting, why viewers would like to digg your story? Hence, you should add some interesting content and effective keywords in your article which attracts a user to dugg your story.

Dugg from your website

Add a Digg it button in the end of your articles once they have been submitted to digg.com. The reason to add the digg it button at the end of the article is because most people put the digg it button on the top of article which is not very much useful as readers will always dugg after reading the content. So the button should be inserting on the right place at the end of article.

Once you received about 10 dugg’s from the top 100 digg users, you will receive some good traffic from digg website. Also, you can follow these useful Digg tips.

  • Always remember friends are the key. To expose your story faster add at least 20 friends on Digg
  • Request your friends to digg your posts and do the same for them in return.
  • Once you get to the front page about 20 times, it gets easy to attract the users towards your story.
  • So your aim should be the top most diggers who posts and digg’s a lot.
  • Create attractive titles like why, how, etc. Example: “Why Linux is the best OS”, “Top 20 reasons why Linux is the best Operating System”, “How to tweak Linux”
  • Be careful with digg as many blogs are banned
  • Don’t waste you time on digg groups as they are not much effective

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Getting to Know How Web Server Works

Probably when, you come to a website to search a company that offers Web Hosting or Web servers services, do you really know how do these server’s work? Having a good knowledge of or about the service or product you are going to purchase is good for you.

The first thing you should know is that the machines that are responsible for storing the data and exchanging it to other machines are know as Web servers. For web server to work you always need two machines, one is client that requests the data and a web server that stores the data in it. Without software like Fire fox and Internet Explorer browser, one cannot negotiate with server to exchange the data.

For web server there are many options software available, which does the same work to request the data transfer in between the Clients and servers through Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP). It depends on Operating System (OS) selected for the web server. For an example, UNIX fans choose Apache Web server, while Microsoft Internet Information Server is a popular choice for Windows NT.

Simple data trade between the client’s machine and a Web server works like this:

  • The Client’s browser cut apart the URL into a number of separate parts, including address, path name and protocol.
  • The browser detects which protocol (the language client machines use to communicate with servers) should be used. For Ex: Protocols used are File Transfer Protocol (FTP) and Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP).
  • The browser sends a GET request to the Web server to retrieve the address it has been given. For example, when a user types http://www.yourdomain.com/1.jpg, the browser sends a GET 1.jpg command to yourdomain.com and waits for a answer. The server responds on to the request of browser and verifies that the given web address exist, and finds the appropriate files, runs the proper scripts, exchanges cookies if required, and proceeds the results back to the browser. In case, if server is unable to locate the file, it sends an error message to the client.
  • The browser translates the data it has been given in to HyperText Markup Language (HTML) and displays the results to the user.

This above process is repeated until the client browser leaves or closes the website. Apart from the functions mentioned above, the Web server also has an additional number of responsibilities. Whereas a Web browser simply translates and displays data it is fed, a Web server is responsible for distinguishing between various error and data types. A Web server must, for example, designate the proper code for any sort of internal error and send that back to the browser immediately after it occurs. It also has to distinguish between various elements on a Web page (such as .GIF, .JPEG and Audio files) so that the browser knows which files are saved in which format. Depending on the site’s function, a Web server may also have numerous additional tasks to handle, including logging statistics, handling security and encryption, serving images for other sites (for banners, pictures, etc), generating dynamic content, or managing e-commerce functions.

Now you have got an idea of a Web server, you should be pleased about all the process that goes in to delivering a single page of content to your computer screen. Keep this knowledge in mind when going to shop your another host.

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