Digg recently announced that they’re changing the way links are handled on their site. They didn’t go into much detail but what that basically means is that links within comments and profile pages, and links from stories below a certain threshold of trust won’t parse any PageRank (ignored by Google).
This is definitely a good thing, as I’ve often come across spam Digg profiles ranking for fairly competitive terms.
My problem is the way in which they announced it:
We’ve made a few changes to the way Digg links to external sites that may impact some folks in the SEO community.
SEO community sounds like a lovely phrase, but shouldn’t be (and generally isn’t) associated with the type of behavior Digg is trying to prevent. White Hat SEO’s like SEO.co.nz would never dream of setting dummy digg profiles, or spamming Digg with low quality content or comments.
Yet every person that reads that post sees the words SEO Community next to spam prevention.
Another problem is that site owners are swarmed with spam emails from so called SEO’s promising all sorts of golden rankings in generally broken English. Real SEO’s don’t need to spam, our clients come to us. But again the term SEO is associated with spamming. Maybe we need a new job title?
October 26th, 2009 at 12:31 am
Who is digg as I am very curious to know?
October 27th, 2009 at 12:04 am
http://www.digg.com