Plugim a Digg like site for Internet Marketer

Actually i know about PlugIM since a few days ago (or several days ago) because one of my post here got submitted by someone. And although it's a little bit late on posting this, but i think it's still better than not posting it ;-)

My first impression about PlugIm since i saw it at the first time is, well .. i think .. overall is good from the website layout and usability (almost like a digg website but with different layout), but i don't really care about layout and usability to much as long as its not like Amazon or Godaddy which is really hard to navigate (at least for me)

Basically Plugim website is just the same like Digg website (it's built using Pligg CMS), with the exception most digg stories are related to technology stuff while Plugim is more suitable for internet marketer. And not to mention that you can put your adsense id on their website because of the adsense revenue sharing program (read their blog for more info about this).

Unfortunately there is one thing that i don't really like on PlugIm, and that is the social bookmarking button that is placed below all the user submitted stories

Why did i say that ? well … to be honest .. this is my own opinion about that social bookmarking button :-)

Like most of you already knew that Digg is just a collection of user submitted stories from all over the web, and of course its just a link to the original article. So if you’re going to create a link it should be directed towards the original article not Plugim site. And here’s an example taken from the latest post at the time i wrote this (hover the example text to see it)

Well although it's up to the webmaster, personally i think it’d be better for them to remove it because :

• You’ll lose your website credibility because if you truly want to promote your own website, then do it without promoting your competitor website first (lets say what are digg users are going to say if they see the same button on digg website) :-P
• The social bookmarking button should be linked to the original article source not the social bookmarking website itself (in this case it was Plugim)

As for a reference, here’s some article that might give you an idea about social bookmarking button, and the main reason why social bookmarking button is useless :-)

• Social Bookmarking Button Madness by Chris Pirillo
• It’s the content not the icons by 37Signals

As for my own opinion about this, well .. i’ve already wrote about it .. but that’s just my own opinion ;-) .. but i'm actually amazed on how those guys can actually promote their site and made their site popular within 2 months !!