Our #1 goal is (and always will be) to send you guys as much traffic as possible. So with that in mind we’ve made a couple of small changes that will have a huge impact.

RSS Feed Modifications - The links in the RSS feed now point directly to the source of the story! If you submit a link from your site and it reaches the front page on PlugIM, anyone who reads our feed and clicks on the headline will go directly to your site. We’ve taken ourselves out as the middle man. Yes this will mean PlugIM suffers a hit to our own traffic, but again our #1 priority is sending traffic to you. We also added two new links in the feed under each story. The first one shows the current number of plugs the story has and links to the story’s page on PlugIM so you can easily go and vote if it’s a story you like. The second link shows the how many comments have been posted and links to the comment section of the story.

Another nice side effect from changing the feed to link directly to the story is if the same story has been bookmarked on del.icio.us, submitted to Digg or reviewed at SumbleUpon, you’ll see the current stats for each in our dynamic FeedFlares under each story. It also makes it easy for you to bookmark, Digg or Stumble the stories directly.

If you like the changes we made to the RSS feed we ask that you show us your appreciation by subscribing to it: http://www.plugim.com/rss2/

Social Bookmarking Buttons Modification - Under each story on PlugIM there’s a section of social bookmarking buttons so you can easily submit the story to your favorite social bookmarking and news sites. In the past, clicking these buttons always submitted links to the story page on PlugIM which we thought was a little selfish of us. So we changed the buttons to submit links to the original story instead. So now when you submit your link to PlugIM, you can just click each button under the newly submitted story and submit your link to all the other social bookmarking and news sites as well.

If you like the change we made to the social bookmarking buttons we ask that you show us your appreciation by bookmarking us.