Archive for December 5th, 2008

Social News Sites Might Have Explosive Growth Soon

Social media growth and interest is at its highest and will keep on seeing high growth rates…even seeing huge upticks in their growth curve with some of the very top biggest 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:

     

  1. Google Friend Connect
  2. Facebook Connect

You can click on those links for articles with specific information about how you can capitalize and maximize their use in your social media marketing campaigns for your websites.

The basic thing they provide is friend portability. You can easily invite and bring your 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 likely to integrate Facebook Connect at any 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 readily apparent to you.

I have over 3000 Facebook friends in my profile.

If you know anything about Digg they’ve seen massive algorithm changes 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 get to the very top of the home 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, those numbers sound good for investors and news stations but only a select smaller group are highly active. I’m sure the 80/20 rule applies.

Even taking that into account that means 5,400,000 hyper active users coming to the site every day.

Despite the fleeting nature that stories on Digg’s Main page for usually a little under two hours because of the turnover rate and high site usage 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 you need for homepage status by bringing over all your Facebook friends or your Google Friends.

Chew on that for awhile.