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Re: Digg: DiggBar is Good For You, Really Good For Us

Michiel Van Kets — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 22:29:38 -0000

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?

Re: Digg: DiggBar is Good For You, Really Good For Us

Frostfire Gifts — Fri, 10 Apr 2009 04:01:01 -0000

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.

Re: Digg: DiggBar is Good For You, Really Good For Us

Joe Williams — Fri, 10 Apr 2009 02:30:52 -0000

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.)

Re: Digg: DiggBar is Good For You, Really Good For Us

clixus — Thu, 09 Apr 2009 21:08:27 -0000

Totally agree!

Re: Digg: DiggBar is Good For You, Really Good For Us

Walt — Thu, 09 Apr 2009 20:45:26 -0000

@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.

Re: Digg: DiggBar is Good For You, Really Good For Us

LegalHighs — Thu, 09 Apr 2009 18:51:25 -0000

not very suprising imo

Re: Digg: DiggBar is Good For You, Really Good For Us

Kevin — Thu, 09 Apr 2009 18:46:31 -0000

That's unfortunate and here's why:

5 Reasons Why The DiggBar Should Be Broken:
http://tomuse.com/digg-digg...

What The Future Of The Web Will Look Like Because Of The DiggBar And Others:
http://tomuse.com/wp-conten...

The DiggBar Is Essentially "Frame Spamming" You:
http://tomuse.com/framing-s...

Re: Digg: DiggBar is Good For You, Really Good For Us

Charles LeRette — Thu, 09 Apr 2009 15:14:05 -0000

Diggbar sucks. It frames your site and the url shortener uses a redirect that kills any SEO benefit.

Re: Digg: DiggBar is Good For You, Really Good For Us

Robert Basil — Thu, 09 Apr 2009 15:06:30 -0000

You can use other URL shortening services, look in the settings to change it.

Re: Digg: DiggBar is Good For You, Really Good For Us

Robert Basil — Thu, 09 Apr 2009 15:05:22 -0000

Another Digg fanboy who can't see the real world because his head is stuck up Kevin's a$$.

Re: Digg: DiggBar is Good For You, Really Good For Us

Robert Basil — Thu, 09 Apr 2009 15:02:10 -0000

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.

Re: Digg: DiggBar is Good For You, Really Good For Us

jyoseph — Thu, 09 Apr 2009 14:54:45 -0000

I don't dig the digg bar.

Re: Digg: DiggBar is Good For You, Really Good For Us

iHearAmericaSnoring — Thu, 09 Apr 2009 13:55:38 -0000

I actually prefer ow.ly, great bookmarklet and retweet feature and can choose from multi twitter accts to send from, very slick.

Re: Digg: DiggBar is Good For You, Really Good For Us

Jenny — Thu, 09 Apr 2009 13:40:38 -0000

Does anyone know if the ow.ly bar works the same way as the DiggBar?

Re: Digg: DiggBar is Good For You, Really Good For Us

sean_ferguson — Thu, 09 Apr 2009 13:08:18 -0000

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.

Re: Digg: DiggBar is Good For You, Really Good For Us

Dan — Thu, 09 Apr 2009 13:00:27 -0000

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)...

Re: Digg: DiggBar is Good For You, Really Good For Us

David Sonnen — Thu, 09 Apr 2009 12:58:52 -0000

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.

Re: Digg: DiggBar is Good For You, Really Good For Us

temp — Thu, 09 Apr 2009 12:52:23 -0000

@sifarat

users can turn it off if they want to. i did.

Re: Digg: DiggBar is Good For You, Really Good For Us

Jake Marsh — Thu, 09 Apr 2009 12:51:27 -0000

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?

Re: Digg: DiggBar is Good For You, Really Good For Us

Imran Jafri — Thu, 09 Apr 2009 12:45:26 -0000

i hate to see my site being framed...

Re: Digg: DiggBar is Good For You, Really Good For Us

John — Thu, 09 Apr 2009 12:42:58 -0000

Dugg with DiggBar.