If your site has been banned from Digg but you still feel that your content is worth sharing to the Digg community, Muhammad Saleem says that URL rerouting services are a effective way to bypass the Digg.com ban.
Rerouting services like TinyURL, notlong.com and shurl.org can be used to compress long and drawn out URLs into short ones.
The services have come in useful in the past for listing really outrageously long URLs in emails, IM’s and forums, but the use of them in Digg to bypass a site banning is somewhat new.
Sure, the ban and burry frenzied Diggers whill get whiff of the use of these services in Digg nd probably ban those domains too.
So, it’s best to try out some of the more obscure URL rerouting services (or build your own short URL script).
I wondered about this concept, except using another domain name that points to the ip of the banned domain. But I don’t it’s sustainable.
If the digg moderators or influential users don’t like your topic, or you, then they’ll just keep banning.
Sharing tips like this openly, even if they work, only encourages further abuse of the systems that are fighting abuse.
I had my domain theaveragewhiteguy.com banned so until I kissed the asses of the digg gods, I redirected using a script I wrote and hosted on another domain, even though the IP was the same as the banned domain name. The script was simple. I passed the real URL in via the query string like:
http://www.fakedomain.com/something.php?http://www.realdomain.com/story-url
and I never had problems. I think it’s just doing a string match against the domain in the story URL; there’s no advanced “whois” logic or anything.
From what I’ve read in comments from our story which reached the Digg homepage, tinyurl.com is banned too.