The Digg Website Greed Revealed
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Digg is a socialbookmarking website that easily rose into prominence and gained thousands of followers in such a short period of time since it was established by Kevin Rose.
Personally I like Digg and I have shared many valuable links there. Digg is easy to use and it can really send traffic to your website.
Search engine optimizers also like Digg because it implements a dofollow perimeter, meaning your site can get favor from search engines such as Google. Many socialbookmarking sites use the “nofollow” tag, so it is useless, save for the traffic, to post links in those sites.
Lately, Digg has succumbed to the temptation of greed. The website management has implemented its own Digg URL. Basically, when Google makes an index in Digg, your site’s URL would no longer appear, thus defeating your purpose of getting an SEO juice. Digg’s URL would look like this www.digg.com/xlkjsYs, which then redirect to your site. Talking of dofollow? That is useless already. Plus, Digg uses its own toolbar now that is somewhat annoying. But the toolbar doesn’t affect SEO efforts, anyway. It is the Digg unique URL that blows up the whole thing.
This is Digg’s tragedy, actually. If you notice, Google search results would always include certain keywords found in the URL of Digg and these keywords in the URL are factors of getting on top of the search results. All these keywords are gone now since Digg replaces its URL with something like digg.com/hPljsadfdu. Before it used to look like: www.digg.com/sports/tiger-woods-did-it-again
Digg’s greed is not just a blunder; it is a self-destructive move. Wake up, Digg. Learn the basics of search engine optimization and find out why Google used to put you on top of its search engine results.
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Pedro C. said:
You make a good point, but all the while I cannot help but feeling you’re under-estimating the massive crew of professionals who make up the DIGG team. If they’ve decided to make this move, there must be a reason. And yes, I’m aware that URL titles are supposedly relevant towards SEO and better SERPS… regardless of the fact, I expect there are many people over at DIGG with more in-depth knowledge than mine, of how Google works.
September 9th, 2009 at 10:26 am -
Martin said:
I thought they took the bar away after like 2 weeks of using it. I still don’t like digg because its impossible to get an email back from them. They will also ban people without checking if the report carries any truth making it suck even more that you cant talk to anyone. I also dont like that they raised the diggs needed for fp because now there is barely any stories to read and I dont want to go through thousands of pages of crap to find the few good stories.
September 10th, 2009 at 3:59 pm -
elite gamers said:
That is the way that most social bookmarking sites are. They start out with regular links that search engines will follow,. And once they get enough users and traffic built up, they switch to nofollow.
Website owners need to keep in mind that social bookmarking sites are not your own little promotion tool. If digg changes its policy on links, its not our place to complain.
September 12th, 2009 at 9:08 pm