Plime vs Digg vs Stumbleupon

Those 3 sites above were created at first for news discovery but they were quickly exploited by others for websites advertising. Still they all kept their first goal, to inform you and to help you inform others, and later as a secondary goal, to advertise your site.

While Stumble and Digg are pretty old in this line of work Plime is kind of young but with pretty good success.

Stumbleupon.com is in my opinion the only site in this line of work that keeps the pleasure of searching and that is possible with the help of it's magic toolbar that let's you see site by site at a push of a button. More, it has a better choice of colors with a dark green that keeps the eye happy and pleased.

Stumble is probably one of the few sites that inspire me class,finesse,good taste. Above all that is well organized, you have in your account everything easy to find, a few stats about how many pages you've stumbled how many fans you have, all easy.

If you want to advertise on Stumbleupon you have either a payed options or like the majority does, create an account, mingle with the people, stumble some pages from your site and wait for people to come. The traffic from Stumble is, compared with the one on Digg or Plime, more stable, people come almost daily with small variations of course.

Now when it comes to Digg.com it's the opposite. The news are all stacked-up, rather unorganized, therefore if your news doesn't get the first page it will probably die "unknown" , maiby 100 visits in the best case.

On digg a very practiced thing is the digg mab, meaning a group of people that make more then 1 account|(10-20 accounts) and digg their own news until it gets on the first page. The conclusion is that your news can be very interesting and still have only 20 diggs max and another boring news can get 70 "false" diggs and be on the first page, resulting in even 70.000 visits in 2-4 days on the respective site.

Digg should limit the number of accounts that can be made from the same IP, at least this is my opinion good or bad. Another problem is that on digg.com are a lot of low quality news inserted by people that don't have anything better to do. Don't get me wrong, low quality sites/news are on stumble too but in a smaller quantity, much smaller.

The traffic from Digg.com comparing it with Stumble.com fluctuates more, you can have 1000 visits in 2 hours and then for the rest of the day only 100 visits, while in stumble you get something like 3000 visits divided on the hole day.

Plime, hmm Plime when it comes to finding news and read them, very easy, yes. You have a top news just like Digg but it's easier to find info. Their account registration lacks some security because you can make an account without mail verifications, therefore you can use the mails of your friends and create 30 accounts in 20 minutes. This is a very bad thing because you can "plime-up" you own news very fast even if the title is "My News is Stupid" .

Other then that the account area is a bit confusing but the site is very well organized, you will not get lost. When it comes to fame Plime.com is smaller then it's competitors, Digg and Stumbleupon but you never know when it "booms" the audience.

The traffic is good you can have 1000 visits per article in a single day from Plime if your a medium site, but it's not constant, is something like digg, very high in some moments and very low the next second.

Conclusion?
In my opinion and i don't want to anger anyone StumbleUpon.com remains the best quality/quantity website from the sites/news/articles discovery. It's followed by digg.com which is situated on the second position due to it's unorganized information and due to it's digg mab. Plime is on third position, a bit young and unexperienced and with some security problems but continuing it's evolution, which is good.