Digg is no-following their links

[Ben Roy]

Did you guys see this? Digg is now no-following all links from profile pages, comments, and actual stories (Diggs). They will selectively un-no-follow story links after they get enough Diggs and are considered legitimate. This could have a major negative impact on a lot of smaller marketers that are including Digg as a part of their site-ranking efforts.

[Emailrevealer]

I'm not noticing this problem Ben.
I'm digging as usual and my diggs are ranking on google right away as usual.

[Ben Roy]

Originally Posted by Emailrevealer

I'm not noticing this problem Ben.
I'm digging as usual and my diggs are ranking on google right away as usual.

The issue isn't with your Diggs not ranking. The issue is that your Diggs aren't passing PageRank along to the actual site any more. Check out the source code of the page, and you'll see all your links marked as rel="nofollow", which tells Google not to pass on any link juice.

They posted an announcement, it's not a stealth change.

LOL .. No folllow and do follow mean nothing to anyone but google and half the time google does not even pay these tags attention.

Digg being no follow will not cause any problems at all. You can still get listings with them and be indexed in 10 minutes or less in google.

All the more reason why people bookmark their bookmarks (in this case digg) and why people submit their rss feeds and etc...

Go post some articles on ArticlesBase and tell me you do not benefit from them ... I think iSnare is no follow, Search Warp is no follow... Many sites are but it still does not hurt your rankings...

James

[Emailrevealer]

yep, I bookmark my bookmarks and reap the results.

[PCRoger]

Pardon my stupidity, but...

what do you mean "bookmark my bookmarks"?

Is there an easier way to Digg than going through the whole process manually and typing in a summary, etc?

thanks.

[ewayne]

I didn't noticed this kind of thing but I'm still using Digg as much as possible for my sites and articles.

Originally Posted by PCRoger

Pardon my stupidity, but...

what do you mean "bookmark my bookmarks"?

Is there an easier way to Digg than going through the whole process manually and typing in a summary, etc?

thanks.

Example:

You have your digg url ...

Go to Clipmarks - What are you finding on the web? and bookmark the digg url..

Do this with hundreds or thousands of bookmarking sites, this is how you bookmark your bookmarks.

By the way clipmarks.com is no follow also but it can get you listed in google in 10 mintes or so also..

James

[PCRoger]

Sorry, I'm back.

I tried to submit an article I just recently posted on ezinearticles and digg replied with:

This URL has been widely reported by users for one of the following reasons: being used to spam Digg's submission process, posting spam content, or posting off-topic content

Any idea what I'm doing wrong? (and why I can't turn off 'bold')?

thanks,
PCRoger.

[seobro]

This is terrible news. Plus they plan to give link juice to only big web sites. It is the little ones that need it and the exposure. Digg was a source of information. In return we provided it with new stories. However, I see that many people will now migrate to other social networks that give us link juice.

It is like a boss that asks people to come in on weekend and work for free. However, he gives you coffee and doughnuts then he says, "OK now coffee is only for top execs, the rest of you - GET NOTHING!"

[metafever]

I don't think it will matter much . . . Google is the only one right now tracking the no-follow attribute.

So its 1 site . . . out of thousands.

[Red_Virus]

as per Matt's update the "nofollow" attribute was being crawled since the last year so It really makes no difference now. It is only going to discourage spammers to be honest now.

[AlexTampa]

Originally Posted by Red_Virus

as per Matt's update the "nofollow" attribute was being crawled since the last year so It really makes no difference now. It is only going to discourage spammers to be honest now.

No thats not at all what he said.

No follow has always been crawled. It just used to not pass page rank, and would not be indexed.

[WareTime]

Originally Posted by PCRoger

Sorry, I'm back.

I tried to submit an article I just recently posted on ezinearticles and digg replied with:

This URL has been widely reported by users for one of the following reasons: being used to spam Digg's submission process, posting spam content, or posting off-topic content

Any idea what I'm doing wrong? (and why I can't turn off 'bold')?

thanks,
PCRoger.

I would tend to agree. 90 percent of what is on ezine is not quality content, it's content cranked out in hopes of driving traffic or boosting the site you link to. From Digg's perspective, do you think it's audience would enjoy articles on Ezine? No, probably not. You are far better off linking to your site rather than to an article directory.

Go to Digg and read the articles that make it on the front page. Usually news or weird happenings. Nobody cares about yeast infections enough to Digg them to the front page. Digg is just useful to get an entry with a link to your site in a search engine. Forget sending them to your articles at ezine. Those aren't your money pages.