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Digg’s new toolbar is not good for SEO as it just wraps your content in an iframe but there’s more stuff hidden in the code. This article takes a look at just what is going on under the hood.

The toolbar code includes a meta noindex tag and then a rel=canonical to point to the original article. Will crawlers just give up after the noindex?
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from pageoneresults 1037 Days ago #
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I am following all of the articles on this. I’m remaining silent until I see a solid explanation of what may be going on. Oggy sure offers a very convincing dissection of the process. Nice piece!

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from etphotog 1037 Days ago #
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This is a great article to explain the Diggbar and how it can and can not hurt your SEO planning.

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from Eavesy 1036 Days ago #
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Gutted, I just blogged about this and I thought I broke the news.

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from g1smd 1036 Days ago #
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The rel="conanical" is ineffective as it does not operate cross-domain.<div></div><div></div><div>Will be interesting to see how this plays out.</div>

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from Halfdeck 1036 Days ago #
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Nice, in-depth write up:Also notice META Noindex, follow (implied). Though Diggbar pages won’t show up in the SERPs, Digg will still absorb link juice through internal links on noindexed pages. Another win-win for Digg.

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