Digg Adding No Follow Tags
Page With Your Community & Friends!Digg the social bookmarking giant is adding “No Follow” tags to out bound links that it doesn’t trust.
For those that don’t yet know the benefits of Digg here’s how it works.
Each post you publish on your website or blog can be “Dug” at Digg.Com. This is the place where people store, share and comment on links to interesting articles they’ve found on the web.
The major benefit is that with so much fresh information being added to Digg on a minute by minute basis search engine spiders are constantly crawling the site. This meant that by “digging” your own articles and blog posts you could almost instantly direct the search engine spiders to your site for indexing in the search results quickly.
In many tests I have hit the first page of Google with new blog posts in a matter of minutes. However, Digg has now introduced the “No Follow” tag to links it doesn’t trust.
So What Is The “No Follow” Tag?
A standard link in html code would appear as:
<a href="linkpage.html">Link Text</a>
When a search engine spider crawls a website and comes to a link the one above it will follow the link and then crawl the page that it links to.
However with the “No Follow” tag added to the code…
<a href="linkpage.html" rel=“nofollow”>Link Text</a>
…the search engine spider will simply pass by the link.
The links still works from a users perspective but as far as the search engines go, no spiders will crawl your page and page rank doesn’t flow through a no follow tag.
The idea is that spammers will get no credit from no follow links and stop using sites like Digg. So I guess the question is…
Is there really any point in digging your articles and blog posts?
Well my answer would be YES! Now would be the time more than ever to start building a Digg profile with great content. Digg have stated that they are adding “No Follow” tags to links they don’t trust. They have not yet explained exactly how they are measuring what they “trust” and what they don’t.
However, providing you Digg high quality unique content including content other than your own and get more active in the Digg community your links will become trusted.
When this happens the links from Digg will be more valuable to you than they ever were before.
At the end of the day it all boils down to what I always advise. Create high quality unique content, format your pages properly and use services such as Digg how they are supposed to be used.
Black hat techniques, tricks and systems will always catch up with you and could seriously hurt your business if you partake in them.
Please feel free to leave your comments and questions.
JP
Tags: Digg, No Follow Tag, SEO
