Comments on: How to Abuse the New DiggBar for Fun and Profit

By: Manish Pandey

Manish Pandey — Tue, 07 Apr 2009 12:28:27 +0000

Michael seems to have some real problems with Kevin.

I’ve to agree to Michael though, that Digg is definitely trying to become something which it is not. I did an article on my blog which explained why Digg should not change itself. Here’s a link to that article.

By: Bartjan

Bartjan — Tue, 07 Apr 2009 11:30:01 +0000

I guess you missed the fact that the page http://digg.com/u13F1 and other short-digg-frame-URLs have in the source code.

So the digg-URL won’t rank….

Too bad the canonical tag doesn’t work cross-domain, otherwise we could pass digg’s linkjuice to our sites easily.

By: Gab Goldenberg

Gab Goldenberg — Tue, 07 Apr 2009 05:05:53 +0000

There are very few people worth hating. You may not like what he says / digg’s PR, but I dunno you hate him personally. What’s he himself done to you?

By: SEO'Brien

SEO'Brien — Mon, 06 Apr 2009 20:22:51 +0000

@Karl & @youfoundjake – heard the news that entrecard is launching a pay for placement network (no surprise). I’m giving it a second look; traffic for credits is one thing but real $$ might work

By: Lyla

Lyla — Mon, 06 Apr 2009 20:05:18 +0000

Okay, well as much as I’d like to see the loincloth and chicken thing, I’m gonna speak up as one of those users who likes social media for fun. No blog, no website, don’t know jack about SEO. Might be a Web 2.0 weenie–not sure yet. I just like the social aspect and getting to see stories I wouldn’t otherwise find.

But if I wanted to go to Digg.com, I’d frickin’ go there. I don’t like having it rammed down my throat.

By: Damien

Damien — Mon, 06 Apr 2009 14:44:58 +0000

That’s awesome! I couldn’t agree more about system abuse. And I’m speaking as an admitted system abuser.

By: Karl Foxley

Karl Foxley — Mon, 06 Apr 2009 14:42:36 +0000

This was a very insightful post that had me in laughing out loudly!

You raised some very clear points concerning Digg, I also agree with youfoundjake who mentions Entrecard, I ended up removing the Entrecard widget from my blog also and found I didn’t lose a thing by doing so!

Regards and thanks for the entertaining read.

Karl

By: Marah Marie

Marah Marie — Mon, 06 Apr 2009 05:15:54 +0000

Excellent post – thanks for sharing this. I tried to find a way to bust it on the journaling site I use a day after I learned of it and finally wrote to the site’s devs asking for help. Answer? There is no way for users to make it go away. While I know at least three different ways to make the DiggBar dematerialize I can’t utilize them without access to Javascript and/or root, which no one on a journaling or blogging service has. The only other thing to do is campaign such sites to stop allowing the DiggBar access…

By: Miranda Rights

Miranda Rights — Sun, 05 Apr 2009 23:38:15 +0000

Yea! Woe! Digg develops powerful foes. Ziabatsu, Michael Graywolf, even Jesus himself does not approve. (He was banned for being a higher power user.)

By: app

app — Sun, 05 Apr 2009 23:06:23 +0000

You really do not want to use any sort of frame busting script in your template, if you have a Blogger based blog. It will disable your ability to use the upper toolbar in the layouts mode, and you will not be able to access the HTML of your template without a bit of “url hacking” to get to it.

If you have added it and can’t access the html of your template, just change the layout url, replacing the word “display” with “html” and removing everything after “blogID=[number]“.