I find DiggBar irritating, because digg keeps you tied to their site if you follow a digg-shortened URL. I've stopped using twhirl for Twitter updates because twhirl uses diggbar as their url shortner. There are a lot of less intrusive options for shortning URLs.
Robert Basil
· 8 months ago
You can use other URL shortening services, look in the settings to change it.
Dan
· 8 months ago
yeah not a fan. This is def a case of "ok for you, REALLY good for digg". Great so now they have more users, still in the same boat as Facebook and Twitter tho... where's the money?
Also I'm with delicious founder on this, url shortening / iframes are def evil, although that may be a "necessary" type of evil (at least the shortener part)...
I concur, I calll it "FRAME SPAMMING" as it is not requested by the user nor did the user ever give consent for the frame to be shown. You might be able to keep it from displaying on Digg's on site but you can't when you click on a shortened Digg link or a re-shortened Digg link.
Jake Marsh
· 8 months ago
I love seeing my site inside the digg bar, reminds me someone could come along and digg it anytime, getting me tons of traffic. I really don't see what all the fuss is about? We all want people to come to our website. Who cares how they get there? Digg is great, I've gotten tons of traffic from it, I also find tons of cool sites on it. Why all the hate?
Robert Basil
· 8 months ago
Another Digg fanboy who can't see the real world because his head is stuck up Kevin's a$$.
temp
· 8 months ago
@sifarat
users can turn it off if they want to. i did.
sean_ferguson
· 8 months ago
rel="canonical" does nothing in this case as the two copies are located on different domains. I have two qualms with DiggBar. First, it creates duplicate web content regardless of measures taken to reduce the effects. Second, it conflicts with other social bookmarking services. StumbleUpon users can easily "Thumbs-Up" the wrong version of a website.
Jenny
· 8 months ago
Does anyone know if the ow.ly bar works the same way as the DiggBar?
Nerd Stalker
· 8 months ago
I actually prefer ow.ly, great bookmarklet and retweet feature and can choose from multi twitter accts to send from, very slick.
jyoseph
· 8 months ago
I don't dig the digg bar.
Robert Basil
· 8 months ago
The ONLY one to benifit from people using the “Digg toolbar” is Digg itself. It’s an ugly piece of crap. If I want to bookmark a website I don’t want to bookmark the “Digg” URL for it.
But of course the Digg fanboys will love it just like anything that Kevin does.
I long for the old days when Digg used to contain actual news on it’s front page.
Kevin
· 8 months ago
Couldn't have said it any better myself =)
clixus
· 8 months ago
Totally agree!
Hugh Briss
· 8 months ago
Diggbar sucks. It frames your site and the url shortener uses a redirect that kills any SEO benefit.
LegalHighs
· 8 months ago
not very suprising imo
Walt
· 8 months ago
@temp
Yeah, but SITES can't turn it off without use of JavaScript. And why should they have to do that? Opt-in without permission seems similar to another bane of the Internet.
Joe Williams
· 8 months ago
I, for one, have decided to quit using DIGG for this reason. If enough of us do, then maybe, they'll revert back to the more user-friendly way. (However, I doubt if many can give up DIGG as easily as I can.)
Frostfire Gifts
· 8 months ago
One thing it does do for Digg is give them great advertising data, their data will now show people spend a great deal of time on their website.
Michiel Van Kets
· 5 months ago
With the potential for increased traffic to sites and the fact that the option is available to turn off it will be interesting to see whether in fact it does hurt SEO or not. Providing the comment is correct that the Google juice gets to the right place it could turn out to be a benefit. I am interested to see what the next results will be for the content providers as in there will be a benefit or not. If Digg can see a 20% increase in unique visitors then how much of that will flow on to content providers. I see there are various other comments that say it does affect SEO so what will the next step be in confirmation of these points?
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Also I'm with delicious founder on this, url shortening / iframes are def evil, although that may be a "necessary" type of evil (at least the shortener part)...
5 Reasons Why The DiggBar Should Be Broken:
http://tomuse.com/digg-diggbar-facebook-content...
What The Future Of The Web Will Look Like Because Of The DiggBar And Others:
http://tomuse.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/04/mu...
The DiggBar Is Essentially "Frame Spamming" You:
http://tomuse.com/framing-spam-diggbar-facebook...
users can turn it off if they want to. i did.
But of course the Digg fanboys will love it just like anything that Kevin does.
I long for the old days when Digg used to contain actual news on it’s front page.
Yeah, but SITES can't turn it off without use of JavaScript. And why should they have to do that? Opt-in without permission seems similar to another bane of the Internet.