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Number 1 yigg user baynado made this screencast on how to use the Yigg Spion (yigg spy) to find out which articles are most viewed and recommends to post links in the comments of these posts, wishing his audience happy spamming.

Cloning web applications that are popular in America is en vogue in Germany. One example is yigg.de, which apparently is a Digg clone. The similar name is embarrassing enough, but originally they owned the domain digg.de. Digg was probably not very happy about that and forced them to change their name, but not the concept.

I tried yigg in the beginning of 2007 to check out how much traffic a yigg front page story generates. At that time it was about 100 referrers on the day the story was shown on the front page, which is nothing compared to Digg.

A few weeks ago I noticed a new German blog called Probloggerworld. The author mainly writes posts about blogging, monetizing websites, boosting traffic, and similar topics. Many of the posts have titles like Howto do ... or asking questions like Can you boost your traffic by ... (in German of course).

yigg.de is a German language social news community that resembles digg.com in many aspects. To add an interactive yigg.de button (also see diggthis), I added the following code in my theme: