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SEO’s Still Dominating Digg

Went Hot: July 12, 2008 - 10:36 am
Posted By: UtahSEOpro 358 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.shoemoney.com)
Category: Social Media

There was a recent study on popfail which showed the last 500 stories to hit the front page of Digg. An impressive 1/3 of the 500 were controlled by 10 users. Of those 10 users many are recognized in the SEO industry.

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from MariosAlexandrou 358 days ago #

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The original post from PopFail was informative, but all Shoemoney added was that the list included some SEOs. He doesn't provide specifics nor does he identify what percentage of the submits the SEOs controlled. I could've written the exact same article and switched out SEOs with "guys from the US" and provided as much insight...

from MikeDammann 357 days ago # - show/hide this comment

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whatever the case, his story got 3k diggs

from MariosAlexandrou 357 days ago #

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@MikeDammann

Yeah I noticed the many Sphinns. And my comment wasn't meant to be a general statement about Shoemoney. I just though this particular article from him was weak and it feels like he had more he wanted to say, but just didn't.

from seobro 357 days ago # - show/hide this comment

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Perhaps Google can penalize DIGG now. After all it does not use the nofollow. In fact, Google might apply a penalty to all social bookmarking sites, even SPHINN...

from BrentCsutoras 356 days ago #

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Should probably note that Shoemoney's blog is not the post that was submitted to Digg and not the post that got 3k diggs...

Attention to detail folks.

from BrentCsutoras 356 days ago #

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@seobro

Why would Google give a penalty to sites that require user voting and moderation to reach a front page?

from onreact 356 days ago #

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Isn't it against Digg's TOS to use the Digg button of another page? Anyways, Shoemoney is a dirty lowlife exposing Maki and the others as SEOs. Everybody knows that Digg hates SEOs. Maki is just a blogger who happaned to be active on Sphinn. He's not even a real SEO doing client work or something.
Shoemoney does not add any value whatsoever, so he only brags and offends to get attention.

from MariosAlexandrou 356 days ago #

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@BrentCsutoras Good catch on the misused Digg button! Now Shoemoney's post is even more useless than I originally claimed :-)

from Skitzzo 356 days ago #

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Shoemoney using the Digg button of the original story probably only helped that story go popular (or become more popular) so I don't think that's exactly a "lowlife" thing to do.

However, I do think saying some of them were SEOs was pointless. I'm not sure what his motivation there is.

With all that being said, I don't think it will have much effect on any of those submitters. Many digg users already have a fairly vocal hatered of the top users so I'm betting these 10 won't notice any ill effects.