Comments on: Digg Profiles Have Nofollow

By: Emory Rowland

Emory Rowland — Sat, 13 Feb 2010 01:30:20 +0000

Let’s hope they keep it this way–reward the stories that make the digg front page with followed links. That way the pop stories get the organic search credit they deserve.

By: Amit Sharma

Amit Sharma — Fri, 12 Feb 2010 17:23:47 +0000

Digg is a do follow now and putting links at digg helps to get indexed in google fast.

By: Emory Rowland

Emory Rowland — Wed, 05 Aug 2009 05:25:39 +0000

Hi Tyler, it does seem like everyone has gone crazy with nofollows. I don't think Google will ever put any weight on nofollowed links, though. Have you seen all the discussion about PageRank sculpting? Matt Cutts made a big post about this not long ago.

By: Tyler Batty

Tyler Batty — Tue, 04 Aug 2009 14:43:02 +0000

Glad to hear they’ve removed that.
Nofollow’s one of these things which seems like a really good idea in the short-term. But obviously what you’re seeing now is every new site owner following SEO and page sculpting, as well as every major site already implementing it, and non-nofollowed links becoming quite scarce. (I’ve got a FF plugin which highlights them in pink – and that’s almost every link bar a few internal links these days.)
The logical conclusion is that you nofollow the entire internet and simply erase the whole page ranking system. I’d *suspect* Google will gradually have to channel weight back to nofollowed links, if they’re not already?

By: SWB

SWB — Sat, 25 Apr 2009 00:09:28 +0000

I don’t know what’s going on whit this “nofollow” attribute.
In my opinion SPAM won’t be prevented and the idea of the Web is referencing to other websites.

By: aFree4u

aFree4u — Mon, 16 Mar 2009 00:09:47 +0000

its good that they removed no-follow , when did this no follow thing come a long anyway?

By: Injury Lawyer Los Angeles

Injury Lawyer Los Angeles — Sun, 15 Mar 2009 20:05:20 +0000

I was noticing this morning that all my DIGG profile links were removed from DIGG, as are everyone elses. What’s the point of no follow? It sucks, all that hard work and no link juice.

Matt Cutts scared the crap out of everyone?

By: masterofthe

masterofthe — Wed, 11 Jun 2008 01:12:09 +0000

so this is the reason why almost everyone in the social media backyard is following the “nofollow” in the profiles page…

By: Emory Rowland

Emory Rowland — Thu, 24 Jan 2008 16:40:38 +0000

I would imagine Digg will keep it that way, especially since when you post a story from Digg to your own blog, it inserts a “followed” link crediting Digg on your site.

By: Hosting Website

Hosting Website — Thu, 24 Jan 2008 15:16:49 +0000

I checked on the code of digg whether its news links or story links have nofollow attributes, but I found none. It’s difficult to spam digg since the spammer has to enter the verification code first before posting a news link.