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Just recently there has been some breaking news over at Digg.  So what’s going on over there with those guys?

Digg has removed the display of thumbnails of avatars of submissions that appear in the Digg home page. This was posted as an announcement in the Digg blog a few days ago. This is aimed as an improvement to server performance and seen as aiding faster page loads.

There has been another concurrent development. Digg raised the limit of stories that could be ‘dug’ by a single user, from 200 to 300. Then this magical figure was put back at ‘unlimited’ allowing unlimited number of ‘diggs’ per user account.

Speculation has it that Digg noticed a decrease in user activity (number of diggs) due to the limits placed on digging. People had to be more judicious in their use of the daily digg quota and thus the Digg usage decreased.

This new development does mean that Traffic-Bug will re-review Digg as a potential option to be added to the service.  With the post restrictions they had in place Digg was not a viable option as it would be a nonstop battle creating new accounts.  We will be testing Digg and possibly adding it to the service in the next bookmark update.

Michael R Roberts

Hello Everyone,

Our third update is now up and live!
It is exciting to keep moving forward and now celebrating our second month aniversery just a few days ago, things are moving along so nicely.

Our newest update has introduced a bran new Submission form UI.  The new User Interface is a quite a bit longer and also offers more explanations on how to use each field properly.

However, the new User Interface is far from just all looks!  We have done an extensive amount of coding on the backend that went along with this new UI.  The new form and code to go along with it are our battle on “SPAMMERS”.

The world may be at war on terror but I fear there is a war on the internet as well.  “The War On Spammers!”
I under-estimated this war when I first opened my doors to this software and the spammers came rolling in like, well something that rolls quickly.

They abused the system in every way possible!  Creating multiple accounts to try and do multiple submissions on a single URL, Submitting Porn material, etc.

The bottom line was these spammers hurt the softwares effectiveness and cost me thousands of dollars.

Like any battle there are many steps to winning.

1. First we had to identify the attackers and remove them.  -All the spammers that were on the system have been banned.

2. Set up a line of deffense. – This is what we have done with this new update.  Spamming with our software has just been made immensly more difficult and this keeps the integrety of the software.

The next step is:

3. Repair damages. – This is where we are at currently.  I have spent thousands of dollars on fresh clean accounts, new IP’s, etc.  After this repair the software will be back at 100% with stronger defenses.  This update should be implemented in roughly 7-12 more days.

4. Go on the offensive!  – With this update which is already in progress we are adding 50 new social bookmarking sites and 50 new RSS aggregators.  This will bring the total number of social bookmarking sites that we can submit to just over 100!  All these social bookmarking sites and RSS aggreagators are currently being tested on dozens of blogs to make sure they are good enough for my customers!

But briefly I would like to talk further about the update that has just taken place.

It’s all pretty self explanitory and the training video will also cover all the major details on the page, but the one new requirment that might baffle customers is the new requirment of 3 different single word keywords.

You might say “Mike, why do I need 3 single word keywords? I don’t have 3! What can I do?”

Not all social bookmarking sites allow for multiple or long tail keywords.  This update will ensure that we can now reach all the social bookmarking sites.  If your primary keywords are long tail keywords don’t worry!  You can still enter those keywords under “Multiple Word Keywords” column.  They will be used at the majority of the bookmarking sites!  However for those few bookmarking sites that can’t handle this our software will use your single keyword’s that you have entered.

Now if you have a lot of trouble or simply don’t have 3 single keywords to use for your submission then you can get a little clever that the social bookmarking sites don’t mind.  You can use “-” or “_” to seperate two or three keywords.  As an example I can submit Traffic Bug as a single keword by simply submitting as:  Traffic-Bug or Traffic_Bug.

That’s not so hard eh?

Well that is it for this update!  And remember Traffic-Bug is an assisted automated submission solution.  This means it acts like an army of employees for you working 24/7, but YOU are still responsible for what YOU enter.  That means submitting rich unique content that abides by bookmarking and directories rules!
I hope you enjoy the update and I will be with you in roughly a week with our next ground breaking update.

Michael R Roberts

Hello Everyone,

Michael R Roberts here from Traffic-Bug.

I am very pleased to present to you Traffic-Bug’s very first ever blog!

I know it’s about time huh?  Well actually the software has only been out for two months and we have been very busy.  It has been something I have wanted to add ever since the creation of the product but just hadn’t had the time.

The Traffic-Bug blog is a great new tool for us to stay in touch with our customers!
We will be posting about current updates, future updates, issues, etc.
This will be the first port of call for updates reguarding Traffic-Bug!

I will also be, along with the help from some of the staff, be writting some Social Media blog posts and uploading them here.  So you will also be able to learn more about breaking news in social media and web 2.0 techniques!

I wish to connect with everyone better so subscribe to the blog so you can stay on top of all our updates!
Also you can join me on my twitter for updates and information as well!
http://twitter.com/MichaelRRoberts

Talk to you all more,

Michael Roberts
CEO of Traffic-Bug.com