Will Yahoo buzz kill Digg?
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Yahoo buzz, which was on beta for only few selected publishers has open their doors to the public now. With a Digg like voting system and with a desperate need to catching up with the times yahoo has done something which was much needed for the survival of Yahoo inc. Did people need another social media network? Absolutely no. But we should not be stupid enough to simply ignore a system introduced by the world’s no 1 internet company. Yes, Google is still playing No 2 to yahoo in terms of page views and visits.
Yahoo buzz is now open for billions of web masters who are already in the rat race for bringing in more traffic. All the top Gurus are now looking for a way to game the buzz system. Just like they did with Digg. Which explains why digg is showing the same content of same popular web sites again and again. No matter how many friends you have ,No matter how many shouts you send for a particular article, if you are a small publisher it is very hard to get to Digg’s front page these days. It is like Digg has already chosen all the publishers they want in their Front page.
Will it be possible to game the yahoo buzz system? You only need a yahoo account in order to vote. I know people who have dozens of yahoo accounts. And almost everyone have friends using yahoo accounts. Personally in my country I do not personally know anyone with a Digg account. But everyone is using yahoo mail accounts. Which is just what the system needed for a vote.
But Yahoo has done something smart. They do not consider votes as the only way of moving stories to the home page. They take the search volumes and the emails shared when choosing the stories to be featured in their home page. And most importantly these stories will be in the yahoo home page. Not just in the yahoo buzz. Which will be an amazing boost for the publisher since yahoo is the No1 visited web site in the world. I would trade anything to be featured in the yahoo home page. (hmm. I did not really mean that.)
So how we add our posts to yahoo buzz?
There are no 3rd party widgets at the moment. But I am sure all existing services are in the process of adding yahoo buzz to their code. For the time being you have too add it manually which is not a difficult thing to do at all. Go to the yahoo buzz buttons page here, and select the button image you want to use.
Scroll down to the end of the page to see the yahoo buzz button I am using.(which is the best in my opinion.)
Once you select the button you will be given the script code which you have to paste in your site. Not like in Digg you will have to manually enter your post’s URL here. Replace it with the line “ARTICLEURL” in the button code. That’s it. Now, anyone with a yahoo account (Literally the whole internet population.) can vote for you. Within the next couple of weeks internet marketing gurus will publish ebooks on “how to get traffic from yahoo buzz”. And most will update their existing books with a new chaptor on “yahoo Buzz”.
But will all this hype be enough to kill Digg,the Already established No 1 voting system online. I cannot predict the future. But there is no such thing as “established No 1″ in this world. Who knew China would give USA a hard time like this in Olympics medals table. I say Yahoo buzz have a fair chance of beating Digg in the long run. With that said, if Digg can make their system more democratic and if yahoo failed to capitalize on opportunities (Common trend in Yahoo for the past few years.) Digg will be emerged the winner.
While the world is figuring out who is the best, I am submitting my stories to both Digg and Yahoo buzz. Helping my self to become a winner.
If you enjoy the post please digg and give a buzz on yahoo :-) And if you own a web site do not forget to add the all important “yahoo buzz” button to your posts.
—–New Update —–
It is being 2 hours since I publish this post. Yahoo Buzz started sending me quality traffic for this.
For the time being it is 6 times more than the Digg traffic I am getting. I will post the latest results after 24 hours. Buzz me up till then :-)
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hehe..yeah i also got the publisher notification..added buzz to the site as well..but then again it also depends on what u have…ny ways nice post man.. i can see it gettinh buzzed pretty well..lolz
I always get around 3-4 visitors from Digg a day which is puny :(
I hope I can get more out of Yahoo Buzz. Let’s see :)
@ realskullzero
Yep, it is getting nicely buzzed up and the traffic is also quality. Buzz will definitely challenge other social networks.
@ Michael
I have my lucky days with digg once in a while. The great thing about digg is when they start sending traffic it is always 1000+ uniques. I have had number of 1000+ days thanks to Digg.
So how many visitors have Buzz bring in to your site so far? (I saw around 18 buzz votes on this post)
I’d rather get traffic from StumbleUpon as sometimes it only requires 1 person to stumble to send hundreds of traffics in :)
I have no luck with digg. Only stumbleupon and reddit gets me traffic. i average around 700 stumble most time. the best i’ve got was 7000 stumbles. reddit send around 200-300. digg send about 10, haha.
anyway wonderful post. I will try to buzz my post and see how it goes. hopefully it will be better then digg
@ Michael
For the past 2 hours it brought approx 150 visitors. I know stumble brings more traffic. Actually I would have given up this blog long time a go if there was no stumble upon. But we must admit the quality of stumble traffic is less when comparing with other networks.
I measure quality by number of page views and the time spend on the site.
Yeah, the quality of stumbleupon traffic sucks, that I agree :)
Hm 150 visitors for 18 votes? Not bad. I love the fact that Yahoo tries to go around Digg’s exploit problem (only the big players can go to the front page)
@ nhuong
Wishing you All the best. Let me know how it goes :-)
gaming digg = false votes + false searches
Digg is going to have their hands full as tying search related stats is an EXCELLENT addition to social media. Don’t be surprised when Google buys out digg in the upcoming months. Buzz on this (300M I think?) started a few weeks back.
@ investment geek,
I read digg + google deal is history. Google has back down from the deal. This is not the first time it happened to Digg.
One part of me just wants to steer clear. I can barely keep up with the social media sites I’m already involved with. On the other hand, though, Yahoo hates me. Seriously, I’ve never managed to get any traffic from Yahoo search at all. Google, MSN, AOL, you name it, I get hits. But not Yahoo. I’m wondering if going with Buzz would actually be advantageous to me in that respect.
Okay so buzz gave me about 50 visits, which isn’t bad because today is a horrible day for me for the social media. nothing from digg/stumble/reddit. thank god there is google search!
My stumble visitors spend more time and have more pageview then reddit, which is why i like stumble more. Buzz is doing the same but the # is too low.
But I’m really happy about google because when all my social media fails, I still get traffic from google and other search engine. Just to warn you, don’t depend too much on social medias, some days, like today for me, it brings in 0 traffic.
Great experiment! I’ll have to check out Yahoo Buzz. I haven’t had much luck with Digg either. Thanks.
@cchiovitti
It will depend on the traffic your expecting. If you are expecting a traffic to crash your servers, it wont happen with yahoo buzz. At least not in the near future. But if you are okay with 50-300 unique visitors then go for it.
@nhuong
You are so lucky you get decent organic traffic. As you said no one should underestimate the power of Google. That is why I am putting so much effort to SEO these days. And thanks for helping me out :-)
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I have no luck with digg. Only stumbleupon and reddit gets me traffic. i average around 700 stumble most time. the best i’ve got was 7000 stumbles. reddit send around 200-300. digg send about 10, haha.
anyway wonderful post. I will try to buzz my post and see how it goes. hopefully it will be better then digg
I always get around 3-4 visitors from Digg a day which is puny :(
I hope I can get more out of Yahoo Buzz. Let’s see :)
Article was good. such things most necessary information
I measure quality by number of page views and the time spend on the site.
I think yahoo would definitely would beat digg! Yahoo afterall is one of the listed companies!
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