How to build digg.com like website

Digg.com is one of the most famous social voting and sharing website. Its very good platform for news sharing and promotion. Here is very simple way to create your own digg.com like website.

In order build digg.com clone website, you need to choose a content management system that would support social sharing and voting mechanism.

You can achieve same by using wordpress voting and sharing plugins. But, a better option would be using a standalone CMS that is exclusively meant for social voting, sharing and community building. 

The best option would be Pligg.

Pligg provides essential utilities for creating your own digg.com like website. You can have customizable templates and many utility plug-ins.

And, of course its free, opensource and built with php and MySQL.

Download latest Pligg CMS. Also, you can get free Pligg templates from pligg2u.

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Google implements Digg like link promotion in its Search Result

Google at last made it clear that, its not just the machines but humans need to be in place to rank the indexed pages to raise the search results to semantic realms. You would have noticed a up vote and down vote icons in the Google search result. Web surfers can use these icons to rank the links in the Google search result.

Do not panic if you could not find these icons in your search results, you need to login with your Google account to view and vote the search results.

If you are a stumbler, then you would have used these voting mechanisms using the stumbleupon integration with Google search result. The new feature in Google can also be viewed as a Digg.com like way to promote the indexed links of your web site and blog.  If you can get promote votes from more users, then you are more likely to get listed in the top 10 entries of the Google search result.

Try to gather more promote votes for your web site/blog to improve your traffic from Google search.

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Netscape restored Old Homepage, new one switched to propeller.com

After following the digg.com like route for sometime, netscape.com has restored it old home page. They might have realized the fact that Old is Gold, and can be sold. But still the Netscape.com will be redirected to Netscape.AOL.com, as its with AOL.

Have a look at the propeller homepage below.

Here is the old Netscape under AOL.

Its all common in business, to revert back to the more profitable state.

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