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Didn't Digg use rel="nofollow" on submitted stories? And if so, wouldn't that mean that links from Digg would have zero SEO value?
by adriand 14y ago
Didn't Digg use rel="nofollow" on submitted stories? And if so, wouldn't that mean that links from Digg would have zero SEO value?
- johnbellone 14y agoI always wondered about this. I feel like Digg should be charging to "turn this off" for blogs, or even on a per article basis. I don't mind sponsored stories making it into the mix, but this is another form of revenue that could be explored with more sites that have a metric ass-ton of traffic.
- grandpoobah 14y agoIf I remember correctly, they did not use nofollow.
- alanfang 14y agoOfficially according to bing/google nofollow links don't pass SEO value. However there is quite a bit of evidence that they do in fact have value.
- xpose2000 14y agoThey have end-user value for human eyes and referal traffic. But none in terms of "link juice".
- irunbackwards 14y agoLinks with rel="nofollow" have no link "juice" however Digg.com itself is a very prominent and trafficked website, so any links that are not capped with a nofollow have extraordinary value. (A very basic judge of "link quality" from a particular domain is its "PageRank" value, which Digg.com scores at an 8 of 10.)
- matterk 14y agoIIRC we used nofollow on stories in upcoming. Once they were promoted to popular, the nofollow was removed. This was done mainly to prevent people from trying to gain juice by submitting spam stories.