Comments on: The DiggBar Changes Things At Digg (Some for the Worse)

By: medyum

medyum — Mon, 06 Jul 2009 21:58:16 +0000

The first time they pushed users away was when they banned a little plugin for firefox that enabled you to quickly digg your friend’s submissions and you could choose if you want to actually read the article or not, however you did your part in helping your friend promote a story.

By: Uli - Cool Products Design

Uli - Cool Products Design — Wed, 15 Apr 2009 13:59:44 +0000

Yes.. yes.. yes.. This Digg “Revolution” has brought major changes for Digg users, including me. As we may know, that Digg serves love link for everyone who submit their stories. They’re do-followed. But, as the frame-things came up, I think that SEO advantage has been gone. Is it?

Digg.. oh.. Digg

By: Jim Moran

Jim Moran — Thu, 09 Apr 2009 14:00:11 +0000

They are including a follow link to the destination page (it’s the actual link). Also, the DiggBar is noindexed, so I’m not sure if they’re trying to outrank the destination sites in SERPs.

But overall, I hear you on link juice – the links on the bar to digg.com pages far outnumber those to the source pages.

By: Oggy

Oggy — Thu, 09 Apr 2009 13:52:27 +0000

@Jim Good point! So basically there is 0 chance of any Digg Linklove even if we get to the home page. Another Blackhole is created…

By: Jim Moran

Jim Moran — Wed, 08 Apr 2009 23:37:15 +0000

@Oggy – Nice catch on rel=canonical. I hadn’t looked for it, as I thought Google ignored that value across domains (e.g., the DiggBar could only pass the rel=cononical to a digg.com page, not to the source URL). Strange.

From the Google Webmaster Blog: http://bit.ly/16fGBA