Comments on: Digg Gets into the Content Theft Business

By: Digg Cleans Up SEO Mess

Digg Cleans Up SEO Mess — Thu, 23 Apr 2009 12:31:51 +0000

[…] been a little while since my last post, but I’ve already got an update to the issue of Digg’s content theft adventure. Apparently, I wasn’t the only publisher to get upset over Digg’s use of […]

By: John at Website Building biz

John at Website Building biz — Mon, 06 Apr 2009 07:59:23 +0000

Well, I’ve got all the proof I need. A political blog post I wrote a while ago is no longer in the SERPs… See, it got 3100+ diggs once upon a time but today it is the discussion page on Digg that is getting the traffic I had last week. This is according to webmaster tools and a search for the corresponding phrase. #5 -> #35 in a week and now Digg’s domain has a front page result instead.

As far as I’m concerned, Digg has officially become a menace to be reckoned with – it’s not just Reddit’s retarded cousin anymore!

By: John at Website Building biz

John at Website Building biz — Sun, 05 Apr 2009 01:59:07 +0000

I’ve done just a bit of preliminary research on the effects, and I’m starting to notice a trend:

Digged pages from low pagerank sites are ending up in the supplemental index. In the midrange of PR, there’s a few stories where Digg outranks the original source for any bit of content copied & searched for. For Arstechnica, BBC, or TechCrunch, the original is ranking and Digg’s page is in the supplemental results.

I’ll get some more specific examples up a bit later on

By: Joe

Joe — Sun, 05 Apr 2009 00:00:48 +0000

Am I right? No. The bar is the only aspect of the page actually hosted on Digg's domain. Everything below that bar is in a frame, loaded directly from the author's server, itself. Look at the code, yourself. It's painfully obvious. Also, while you're looking at that code, you may also notice that it was tediously designed to actually improve SEO for the content's site. Previously, people would get little to no Google-juice, even if they were on the Digg frontpage. All they got was a spike in traffic and 15 minutes of fame. With the new Digg bar, you're actually getting something out of Google when Digg links to you now. As much as I hate Digg (mainly because their staff is more worried about keeping a minority of their users quiet instead of praising their top-contributors), the new Digg bar is a godsend to those wanting to improve their SEO through Digg.