WebSite Grade For www.digg.com : 99/100 (November 28, 2007)

A website grade of 99 for www.digg.com means that of the thousands of websites that have previously been submitted to the tool, our algorithm has calculated that this site scores higher than 99% of them in terms of its marketing effectiveness. The algorithm uses a proprietary blend of over a dozen different variables, including search engine data, website structure, approximate traffic, site performance, and others.

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Score Summary

Sectionwww.digg.com
Website Grade99
Google Page Rank0
Alexa Rank117
Technorati RankNot Ranked
Google Inbound Links78,500
Yahoo Inbound Links19,478,140
Delicious Saved Count21,159
Google Indexed Pages81,200

Google PageRank : 0

"Google PageRank relies on the uniquely democratic nature of the web by using its vast link structure as an indicator of an individual page's value. In essence, Google interprets a link from page A to page B as a vote, by page A, for page B. But, Google looks at more than the sheer volume of votes, or links a page receives; it also analyzes the page that casts the vote. Votes cast by pages that are themselves important weigh more heavily and help to make other pages important."
-From Google

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Web Page Structure

To learn more about what meta-data is and why it is important, take a look at the following article:

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Title : Digg / All News & Videos
Description : Digg is a place for people to discover and share content from anywhere on the web. From the biggest online destinations to the most obscure blog, Digg surfaces the best stuff as voted on by our users
Meta Keywords : digg, digg.com, news, videos, podcasts, vote, content
No search words were entered for this report generation.

Though search words (and how the website ranks for them) is not used in the calculation of the SiteGrade, there are several important checks that the software makes related to the words entered. You may want to consider re-running the report for important words related to the site.

Domain Info

Registrar : GODADDY.COM, INC.
Registered On : February 20, 2000 @ 12:00 AM
Domain Age (days) : 2,838
Expires On : February 20, 2010 @ 12:00 AM
Days To Expiration : 814
Permanent Redirect Not Found

Search engines often regard www.digg.com and digg.com as two different websites unless you take specific measures to signal to them that they are the same site.

The best way to handle this situation is to setup what is known as a permanent redirect (or a "301" redirect) from one of these sites to the other. This way, any links that are pointing to the secondary site benefit the primary site, from an SEO perspective.

We could not detect a permanent redirect for this site, so it may be experiencing the negative effects of link fragmentation (some of the inbound links may point to www.digg.com and others to digg.com) For example, www.digg.com seems to have 19,478,140 inbound links whereas digg.com has 237,785,830 inbound links. By correctly configuring a permanent 301 redirect, the search rankings might improve as all inbound links are correctly counted for the website.

Heading Summary

Similar to how newspapers and magazines use headings and sub-headings to help readers, websites can use special tags in their HTML. These tags not only help human readers read the content, they also help search engine spiders better understand the content on a page and what is most important. It is generally a good idea to use heading tags to help signal to the search engines, what the web page is about.
Heading Summary

Heading TypeText
First-Level (H1)digg
Second-Level (H2)Top 10 in All Topics
Second-Level (H2)Integrating with Digg
Second-Level (H2)News & Videos
Third-Level (H3)Miracle! The Flying Spaghetti Monster Appears in a Thanksgiving Pumpkin Pie
Third-Level (H3)Top 10 Beards of the Year
Third-Level (H3)The Ol' Graphics Card Bait and Switch
Third-Level (H3)UPDATE: One Laptop per Child 2-for-1 Charity Program EXTENDED to New Years!
Third-Level (H3)Hubble Images - Out of this world
Third-Level (H3) Pat Condell: Why debate dogma? watch!
Third-Level (H3)America's Joyous Future (PIC)
Third-Level (H3)An ACTUAL Pure CSS drop down menu (cross browser as well)
Third-Level (H3) Crazy skydiver sets his own parachute on fire !!! watch!
Third-Level (H3)10-year Ban for Popping a Wheelie in Miami
Third-Level (H3)Google Earth Heading Towards Extinction?
Third-Level (H3)Google May Outspend The Federal Goverment on Renewable Energy Research
Third-Level (H3)Forgiveness: How To Let Go Of Grudges And Bitterness?
Third-Level (H3)Autoblog drives the Bugatti Veyron
Third-Level (H3)Official probing Rove now under investigation himself

Image Summary

Images are a great way to enhance a website from a user's perspective. However, it is important to note that search engine crawlers cannot really "see" images. So, if you have lots of images that contain textual content within the image itself, this content will not be seen by the crawlers.

HTML helps address this issue by providing a way to specify the textual content for an image using the "alt" attribute. The alt attribute allows web pages to assign specific text as the "alternative" content for images for those that cannot view the images themselves. This can be search engine crawlers or text-only web browsers.
Image List

URLText
http://pixel.quantserve.com/pixel/p-34Iv4_7kv_i-6.gifQuantcast
/img/header-rss.giffront page stories in rss
/thumb/4247274.jpgMetacafe Digg Channel
/img/metacafe_alpha.gifMetacafe Digg Channel
/img/small-digg-flag.gifDigg Flag Guy
/users/paperfrog/s.pngpaperfrog
/users/supernova17/s.pngsupernova17
/users/chuggyhandbags/s.pngchuggyhandbags
/users/suxmonkey/s.pngsuxmonkey
/users/stonerose/s.pngstonerose
/users/BlindingEdge/s.png 
/users/emobrat/s.pngemobrat
/users/opticsnake/s.pngopticsnake
/users/mitzishorrr/s.png 
/users/diggleague/s.pngdiggleague
/users/emberjohn/s.pngemberjohn
/img/uds.pnganimaniac
/users/niz85/s.pngniz85
/img/med-digg-flag.gifDigg the Candidates
/img/little-digg.gif 

Google Indexed Pages : 81,200

Measures the approximate number of pages on www.digg.com that have been stored in the Google index. The Google web crawler will visit the website periodically and look for new content and store it in its index. Generally, the more pages a website has within the Google cache, the better.


There are 0 pages from http://www.digg.com/ in the supplemental results area of Google.
These pages will generally not rank on Google.com. A high number of supplemental pages may indicate a problem with the site.

Google Crawl Date : N/A

Google will periodically crawl websites looking for new and updated content. In general, it is desired to have the frequency with which Google crawls a site to be higher, rather than lower. Sites that get crawled more often have more frequent updates and more authority.

Conversion Methods

The WebSite grader attempts to measure both the ability for a website to attract traffic and the ability to convert that traffic into qualified leads and prospects. The software searches for common conversion mechanisms such as "calls to action". Examples include RSS feeds, email subscription forms and other ways that site visitors can express interest in the offering.
RSS Feed Found

An RSS feed was detected in this web page. The feed links was correctly setup so that it can easily be auto-detected by feed readers and contemporary browsers.

The feed URL for this site is /rss/index.xml
BlogLines, a leading RSS reader reports about 1,024 subscribers to the feed through their system. This is usually a small fraction of the total subscribers to the feed.

Inbound Links

One of the most important measures for a website is how many other sites are linking to it. The more links the better.
Links Summary

Google : 78,500
Yahoo : 19,478,140

Technorati Ranking : Not Ranked

Technorati is a popular website ranking service. It measures the popularity of a given website as compared to all other sites that have been submitted to its system.

This website currently is Not Ranked By Technorati .

del.icio.us bookmarks : 21,159

del.icio.us is a web-based bookmarking site. Delicious users save their bookmarks on the website so they can access them from any browser. A website that has many users bookmarking it is generally popular and will get more traffic. www.digg.com has about 21,159 bookmarks stored.

Alexa Traffic Ranking : 117

Alexa is an online service that measures the approximate traffic for millions of sites on the Internet.

The website www.digg.com has a ranking of 117. This means that it is the 117th most trafficed site on the web -- as measured by Alexa.

Readability Level : High School + 2 Year College

This score measures the approximate level of education necessary to read and understand the web page content. In most cases, the content should be made to be simple so that a majority of the target audience can understand it.

digg.com Submission Summary

The website www.digg.com has had 3 articles submitted to digg.com. These articles received a total of 46 diggs (votes) and 0 of these articles made it to the front page of digg.com.

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