Yahoo Buzz,a Digg-like service that launched on February 25, is now open to all website owners and publishers.The beta test was limited to a few popular websites ( webmasters and bloggers kept joining the waiting list.At last it was opened for all on 18/08/08.Anyone can now add Buzz buttons to their site which will allow readers to vote up the stories in various categories. However, voters will require a Yahoo! ID to submit and buzz the story. But once you start buzzing and voting, you can keep track of all your buzzing activity. When you buzz a story, they offer a cool alert with related stories too.The big benefit for publishers is that top Buzz stories are linked from the Yahoo home page, which turns a fire hose of traffic onto a story. When those stories hit the home page there’s a good chance that the linked site will have a record day in traffic. Yahoo says they’ve sent 16 million visitors to outside sites in those first two weeks.Yahoo is still ramping up the number of links it puts on the home page from Buzz, and is being careful about the potential to flat out nuke websites with all the traffic they can send. But it’s clear that a link from Yahoo.com blows away anything be it AOL's Propeller or Digg or any other competitorbecause of its massive user base.That will keep the Buzz publishers, who must be invited into the service, paying attention.I have also added buzz buttons below each post and readers can now vote for our stories too.
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