HTTP:: Digg Adds 039 Nofollow 039 to Links It Doesn 039 t Trust
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Digg has announced it has made some changes to the external links on the site, which, while mostly transparent to the average user, should really interest those in the SEO business, but may also eventually translate into a better experience for the users. After a lengthy debate going back at least to 2007, Digg has decided to add the “rel=nofollow†tag to every link on the site it doesn't trust. The idea is to thwart spammers looking to boost their search-engine rankings, but this will impact legitimate stories as well. “We’ve made a few changes to the way Digg links to external sites that may impact some folks in the SEO community. These changes reduce the incentive to post spammy content (or link spam) to Digg, while still flowing ’search engine juice’ freely to quality content. We’ve added rel='nofollow' to any external link that we’re not sure we can vouch for. This includes all external links from comments, user profiles and story pages below a certai!
n threshold of popularity,†John Quinn, VP engineering at Digg, writes on the company's blog. First, the bright side. With the “nofollow†tag, search engines are instructed to ignore the link by not taking it into account when coming up with the target's rank in their indexe...
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