Social News Sites Might Have Explosive Growth Soon
Social media is all the rage and has been growing for quite some time…even seeing exponential growth with some of the very top most popular sites
A lot of these website that are having the mightiest increase in users were the ones first to the space and leading the way with the exception of Facebook which came out a long after others including MySpace.
But the amazing new development in the social space is two new software programs:
You can go to those pages for articles with excellent and in depth info on the new softwares to use in your social media marketing campaigns for your websites.
The basic thing they provide is taking your friends with you across the web. You can simply and quickly invite your social profile friends over from these sites into your own wholly owned domain. All they have to do is accept your invite and they’re in. Imagine the growth possibilities for your website…
Digg is now working to make live Facebook Connect at the earliest time meaning you can bring all your Facebook friends over into Digg.
Of course, they’ll have to accept your invite to digg and start using it.
The power of this should be blatantly obvious.
I have over 3000 Facebook friends in my profile.
If you know anything about Digg they’ve undergone some massive changes to their algorithm and how stories reach their front page.
Getting to the front page of Digg is a major victory and can send an absolute volcano of visitors to your website. It’s even got its own term called the “Digg effect” which happens when the tidal wave of visitors crashes your website servers.
Basically, Digg has revamped their site attempting to make it more democratic and give everybody fairly equal chance of getting to the front page.
About four to five months ago it would take 150 to 300 Digg’s to even have a chance at getting on the home page.
Now I’ve seen some stories with as little as 76 Diggs reach the front page. And this social media news site gets over 25 million visitors each month and has over 27 million registered users in its database.
Of course, there’s no guarantee as to how active all these users are. I’m sure the 80/20 rule applies.
Accounting for that means 5,400,000 hyper active users coming to the site every day.
Though this front page exposure lasts on Digg’s Main page for usually a little under two hours because of the other power users newer stories pushing them down and off the page I still talk to people who have gotten over 100,000 visitors from achieving this lofty homepage status.
Now think of the power and how close you could be to the 100-150 Diggs it takes to get to the front page by bringing over all your Facebook friends or your Google Friends.
Chew on that for awhile.
