The DigiFree FAQ should answer most of your questions related to the system and getting your blog listed. I modify this list frequently and will probably move it over to this wiki soon!
Hi Maria- thanks so much for setting this up and for all you do for the scrapping community. As you can see, contrary to my second pm, I have now cracked the code:)
Just stopping in to say hi! I see I'm the second visitor!
Hi Maria,
I had two stars on your page, and then I added your blinkie and the technorati thing to my blog, went up to three stars. Then my freebies were picked up by a few more blogs and my star rating went down! I am now down to 2 stars. What happened? I get picked up by several digi freebie blogs and several more personal blogs too, so I was confused when my stars went down. how can I get it moved back up?
my blog is http://grahamlikethecracker.blogspot.com
Thanks!
Jen
It's probably because I recently removed the Technorati stats API that I was using because it was completely unreliable. E.g., for your blog the API was returning an authority of 62 but in reality it's only 6 right now. Some of the numbers were even more bizarre (in the hundreds for blogs with 0 authority!) So I have removed it for now. That means that many of the star ratings would have changed, some up and some (like yours) down. The Google PageRank is now the most important thing (yours is unfortunately still 0 but give it time). I'm also about to add Amazon's Alexa rankings instead of the Technorati one (unless I can find a more reliable Technorati API). So your 1 star is the minimum, the extra 1 is for the DigiFree ref (and that other extra one was probably a Technorati error unfortunately).
It also depends on the distribution of blogs for each day. E.g, if on one particular day 75% of the blogs have a high Google pagerank (> 3) then those with lower pageranks are distributed lower on the star ratings. i.e., those with pagerank <= 2 will end up with only 1 to 1.5 stars. But if on a day almost all the blogs have pagerank 0 or 1 and nothing above 2, then those with a pagerank of 2 will jump up to 5 stars.
I hope that makes sense! In the end it's a daily calculation and the number of referrals are also re-calculated daily (since the last run anyway). So it can vary quite a lot.
Maria
Hi Maria,
First of all thank you so much for hosting Digi Free! You do an awesome job as I am sure this is a lot of work.
I had a question about updating my information with you. I noticed my freebies are no longer showing up on digifree and after reading the FAQ it looks as though it is because I no longer host freebies on 4shared anymore. I have a new, personal domain that I host them on now.
I couldn't find how to update my information so I am sending you this message hoping you receive it. Could you please let me know what is needed to update my information with you so digi free can find my freebies again?
I still post the freebies on my blog the domain they are hosted on now is http://www.kalodesigns.com/store and I link to the freebies through this thread: http://www.kalodesigns.com/store/index.php?main_page=index&cPath=8&zenid=ei15nkg47ghvaruf2kq78s9s37
Could you please let me know if you need any additional information or if it is even possible to link to a freebie in a store? My e-mail address is ten.tsewerus|olak#ten.tsewerus|olak.
Thank you so much and I hope you have a wonderful weekend!
Stacy
Kalo Designs