In case you missed it SEOMoz had a piece on digg today Dear Digg.com: I’m going to save you a million dollars with three lines of code. Oh sure it bit sensational in title but the advice is sound, Matt tells Digg how to fix their “www” and non “www” cannocical issue. However some of the comments are:
“Q: What do you call 100 dead SEO’s at the bottom of a lake?
A: A good start.”
and
What’s better then ten SEO’s nailed to a tree?
One SEO nailed to ten trees.
When you write your articles and content you might want to keep in mind that these are the folks who vote (or bury) your story, you can’t change their world view, best you can do is adapt and blend in.
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Until Digg fixes the way buries affect a story, most SEO stories will be DOA.
SEO’s and SEMs are on digg in force, however, Digg is not the democracy they claim to be. A bury vote is not just a -1 to your total (as I think it should be). Instead a few buries (most likely from ignorant SOB’s like you quoted in this post) will FAR outweigh the diggs you get from people who actually enjoy your story. A story on the front page with 100 diggs can be sunk by a surprisingly low number of buries. That’s what’s wrong with Digg, not the (now taken down) top user list.
Yay. Mob justice and ignorance for all. I don’t really understand these Digg SEO Salem witch trials.
I picture a giant room full of monkeys pressing a button that has “wii” written on it and throwing poo at each other every few milliseconds. It’s shame that the most vocal part of the Digg community is also the most ignorant (or so it seems lately). Sigh.
“It’s shame that the most vocal part of the Digg community is also the most ignorant (or so it seems lately)”
Its not just Digg, its the whole Internet.
Normal Person+Anonymity+Audience = Fuckwad
http://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2004/03/19
Actually I find it funnier that SEOs keep trying to get dugg.
The Digg community knows they’re being gamed for links, they’re just responding accordingly.
If you read the SEOMOZ comments, it’s almost like they’re resentful or something. I find that silly.
Almost as “funny” as people who still use their targeted keywords for their names on blog comments even though everyone knows they are no followed, eh “Free Games”?
Free Games, not every SEO who submits a story to Digg is trying to game the system for links. I admit some are, but it’s not everyone. Sometimes people actually think an article is worth being read.
I read a lot of the comments at Digg yesterday and the one thing that was most clear was that the majority of people speaking against the SEOmoz article hadn’t taken the time to read it.
If diggers aren’t reading what they are commenting on who is it that’s actually trying to game the system.
Most Digg users are bloggers and webmasters who try to take their posts on the home page. So if you receive any traffic from it, it will not be a traffic that makes money for you. Do you agree?
I’m not interested in making money from digg traffic in fact I reccomend everyone turn of advertisements on pages that have digg potential.
But how can you turn off the ads only on those pages when you have a blog that has a wordpress plateform.
Thanks for your support.
it’s quite easy check for a digg referal string and do the right thing. click the digg button and then click the link back you’ll see the right hand sidebar change
Haha great post Michael. I never would have seen those comments otherwise (I never go to digg).
Since when do we expect PR people to get the web?
Is there a place where SEO’s using digg can all unite/become friends… digg each others stories?
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