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Is the New DiggBar Pure Evil?
Social Media News Source: http://sem-group.net
Published: Apr 24, 2009 - 06:44 am
Story Found By: michddot 1023 Days ago
Category: Social Media
Digg Steals Traffic and Links?: As some people have stated, “Digg is just a glorified scraper site now.” The reason that this statement has some validity to it is because not only is Digg stealing traffic by framing in content from other publishers, but because the DiggBar includes a URL shortening feature, people will be linking to the “Digg URL” instead of the actual URL of the content. Regardless of how you feel about SEO, social media optimization, linkbait or any other related topics...
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from web20empire 1023 Days ago #
Votes: 1

I’ve never liked Digg as much as Stumble, Delicious, and now, my #1 favorite, Likaholix. The Digg bar is just not nice, IMHO. Why would I want to try to get Diggs if they won’t be backlinks to MY site, but rather links to the Digg page instead.I’m out.See you over at Likaholix. And, by the way, I still have 9 invites left. I can’t believe only one person out of 2,800-something followers on Twitter see these "Sheree liked _____ on Likaholix" tweets pop up and I still have 9 invites left.Anyway, you all can keep Digg. I pretty much only use it when a friend is looking for Diggs on a piece of good content. Other than that, why do all that work and have your hard earned backlinks point to Digg?

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from onreact 1023 Days ago #
Votes: 2

This post seems to be kind of outdated. After the recent changes the situation is quite different but the post deals mostly with the pre-change facts.

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from seobro 1020 Days ago #
Votes: 0

I dislike new DIGG as it is not very easy to see the link inside the diggbar. It seems that they are going down, traffic is slowing for digg and stories are old news mostly.

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from seobro 1017 Days ago #
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Evil, it is more evil than Darth Vaders mother in law. It pretends to be a big help, but I have seen scraper sites before that take others content. What I hate the most is the digg shortening of links.

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