Digg Adds No-Follow to Combat Spam
Digg made a change to their site today, adding the no-follow attribute to all external links until they felt sure the link was safe.
They also issued a statement about the change on their blog and even went as far as to speak directly to SEOs, saying they would indeed lose some of the authority they may have been getting from Digg in the past.
“These changes reduce the incentive to post spammy content (or link spam) to Digg, while still flowing ’search engine juice’ freely to quality content. We’ve added rel=”nofollow” to any external link that we’re not sure we can vouch for. This includes all external links from comments, user profiles and story pages below a certain threshold of popularity.”
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You’ve Got a Popular Story on Digg
“Congrats! A story you submitted to Digg has become popular! It currently has 66 Diggs and 0 comments.”
You may have seen this message in your inbox if you selected to be notified when one of your submission becomes popular.
An option that has long been visible in your account preferences, it had never actually worked until just this last week.
So if you want to be notified of your submissions success, then make sure to turn the option on in your preferences.
SMX Advanced & McKremie Interviews
Last month I was interviewed briefly by WebProNews at SMX Advanced in Seattle, and also by Stuart McHenry, of McKremie, who asked me 13 questions about Social Media Marketing.
Here is the WebProNews video:
Is China Banning Submissions to Digg?
China has a documented history of banning various popular websites to keep its people from ‘viewing harmful information’.
YouTube, Google, and CNN have been banned for some time, but with the recent riots in Urumqui, Facebook and Twitter were also banned in what seems like an an effort to keep reports of the riots from getting out.
Now there are reports coming in from some Chinese Diggers, like Tony, that they are no longer able to submit content to the popular social news site Digg. Although they are not receiving the Green Dam messages or the common ‘website not available’ errors, they are unable to use the submission process.
About Brent Csutoras
Brent Csutoras is a social media marketing consultant and entrepreneur, who specializes in social media marketing, content marketing, and viral content creation.
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