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I know that everyone dislikes Alexa stats and they are mostly inaccurate. Alexa Stats only take effect if the user had the Alexa toolbar installed or if you have the Alexa Widget on your site. Today I was looking at server stats of certain websites using netcraft.com and saw that netcraft has their own web stats as well. I took a look at their stats and they sure look a lot more convincing then Alexa’s stats do.

For Example : Netcraft.com has an Alexa ranking of 9031

Now I checked the stats of Netcraft.com and saw that they have a ranking of 860

It is the same thing on Google.com They have an Alexa rating of 2 and on netcraft.com they are rated at #1.

Now I am pretty sure that more people use Google then Yahoo on any given day.

I am very surprised that more people haven’t brought this up in recent times. I have been using Netcraft probably for the past 7 years or so. I used it because it is a good authority for determining to OS of a web-server, the server’s up-time and more usual information about the website.

If you would like to test this theory of mine your self go and visit http://www.netcraft.net . Enter your site time and then take a look at your stats. Take notice of your ranking and compare that with Alexa. Netcraft would see like it makes more sense.

Ill tell you this, I would much rather have my Alexa ratings to be true but they are not

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I have been a user of Digg.com for the past year or so. I used it before mainly just to read the news and watch the same repetitive stories get posted over and over and over once again. Everything from Bush bashing, to Ron Paul jock riding and corny images that somehow made it to the first page.

I have had multiple user accounts banned as well as my IP address. How ever today I actually had some time to kill and decided to kill time with digg. I heard it before that the way to get more Digg’s is to get more friends. So today that is what I did. I went to the profile of everyone who’s article made the front page and invited them to be my friend.

Once a user is your friend they can see what you are digging and you can see what they are digging. You can also share your digg’s with them by selecting share beneath your article. Sharing an article is a great way to get more digg’s.

The problem here is that just because a user is your friend does not mean that they will be able to receive your shouts. For a user to receive your shouts you will need for them to come a mutual friend of yours.

Here is an idea that I came up with which appears to work very well.

Number 1 Look a user’s profile and become friends with the user’s fans. If a user is a fan of someone there is a pretty good change that they are looking to make friends.

Number 2 The more friends that you have on your list the more shouts that you are going to receive from your friends. Most of these shouts are going to be Digg request. Go ahead and Digg their article. After Digging respond back to your friend to tell them that you have Dugg their article and you would appreciate it back in return.

This was my first day using this strategy and after trying this with two articles I am pretty impressed and will continue to do this. Digg only allows you to have 1000 friends so be sure to week out inactive friends who went more then 3 months without being online.

Give this a try to and let me know what you think.