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September 2, 2009
Digg Goes Nofollow to Reduce Spam
Social bookmarking site Digg is incorporating the Nofollow tag to a bunch of links in order to reduce spam. Links on user profiles, comments and not-so-popular posts will get the nofollow tag, meaning it won't pass along link juice.
Many have submitted content to Digg just for the links. Of course, the more popular a link is, then there's the added value of a traffic bump.
In their blog post announcing the change, Digg was not specific on how popular a link would have to be in order to get the Nofollow tag removed.
Digg said it worked with leading experts in SEO to come up with the rule. But since Google bullied Twitter into integrating Nofollow, you have to wonder how much of a collaboration this was and who the experts were.
Posted by Nathania Johnson on September 2, 2009 6:07 PM
Comments
search engine guy September 2, 2009 8:41 PM
I'd like to see them change the way sites are indexed and incorporate user reviews of sites.
Rj September 3, 2009 12:05 AM
I think the junk email is the most annoying.
keydiary September 3, 2009 5:44 AM
rel="nofollow" ATTRIBUTE not tag! Don't make me beat you with my tutor stick!
School Teacher September 10, 2009 9:00 AM
Strange since the whole purpose of Digg is to promote good content. But, on any given day,the most Dugg story will be something like "Janet GeeWhiz talks about her dress stain." I guess that one will not get a nofollow.
LittleRock September 17, 2009 6:03 AM
Hi, yes certainly digg does this to reduce the spamming.But the introduction of nofollow links can be serious downfall in digg's traffic.
that's totally my opinion.
lisa September 20, 2009 8:45 PM
I am all for nuking spam, never-the-less it puts new sites in a quandry…
How to get popular if you need to be popular to get popularity… (geez, that was a convoluted statement. Even so, it makes sense, I swear)
I remember the old days when it was actually rare to get spam in your email… Google ranked pages on keyword density only and captcha made you think of some kind of Turkish Hashish.
All of a sudden I feel kinda old…
Alas I digress. This is a sword that cuts both ways. It was nice to post legitmate ramblings and benefit from the obligitory traffic as a result.
At least it should cut down on the spammers.
bricemish September 20, 2009 8:55 PM
It's a constant seesaw between people in control of links and people who need links to be ranked higher. Being part of the latter group... I know how difficult it is to get those rankings