Comments on: Digg Bar Launched And Exploited

By: Digg Adds Nofollow To All Stories That Aren’t Popular | AccuraCast Search Daily News

Mon, 07 Sep 2009 10:43:16 +0000

[...] A number of experts from the SEO industry have been involved in the creation and derision of the rel=”nofollow” search engine robot directive. Digg has had a few run-ins with these professionals and the rebots instruction method in the not-too-distant past when they launched the DiggBar. [...]

By: AccuraCast

AccuraCast — Sat, 18 Apr 2009 12:18:21 +0000

If you read Gray’s blog post about this, his point was that you could essentially put your content on a Digg.com domain URL, which carries more weight (digg.com domain), and so is more likely to make your content rank higher.

However, as the update points out, Digg has added a robots noindex tag and the canonical tag on the main page to prevent SEO issues / exploitation.

By: blogaboutnothingatall

blogaboutnothingatall — Sat, 18 Apr 2009 02:09:12 +0000

“As Michael Gray points out, the DiggBar frames a page and assigns it a Digg.com URL, which can be exploited for SEO benefit by unscrupulous affiliate publishers.” I don’t under how this bar can be exploited? Is the link a nofollow now? It is something like digg.com/adsf78r

By: AccuraCast

AccuraCast — Mon, 13 Apr 2009 12:04:47 +0000

Update: Digg have clarified that they place a robots “noindex” tag in the framed pages, so they will not pose a problem for SEO after all.
Digg also uses the canonical tag and links to the original source, to prevent SEO duplication problems for the source.