Digg introduces NoFollow Tags

To the sound of a giant sigh of frustration from the SEO community, content site, Digg has introduced a rel=nofollow tag on all its content. The site had been a great opportunity to promote sites and gain high quality links for clients through well written copy. It was essentially the definition of white hat SEO.

Unfortunately, whenever a good opportunity like that comes along, there’s always going to be a few people – or maybe thousands of people – out there who just don’t fancy doing the work and attempt to abuse the system. In recent months, Digg has started to resemble a bit of a spam-fest with irrelevant and nonsensical articles starting to appear all over the shop. And so the Digg team have understandably decided to make all new outgoing links nofollow in order to deter unscrupulous users.

That’s not to say legitimate users should give up however, Digg spokespeople are at pains to point out that once they can verify a story it will have the rel=nofollow removed. So, basically, if your article is sound and it gets enough Diggs you will still feel the benefit of Digg use, it just may take some time.

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2. A Guide to Link Building with Digg – Part 2
3. A Guide to Link Building with Digg – Part 1
4. A Guide to Link Building with Digg – Part 4
5. A Guide to Link Building with Digg – Part 5
6. A Guide to Link Building with Digg – Part 6