Comments on: Does Digg.com Belong in Google Results?

By: Nige

Nige — Tue, 19 Jan 2010 19:48:09 +0000

Lost count of the number of times my Google results have come back with an article, plus loads of useless digg pages pointing at the same article. Digg pollutes search results with repetition and doesn’t add value. I usually find the original article ranks higher than the Diggs — not surprising as it’s got all the link equity from all those Diggs. Nothing else against Digg — all in favour of social bookmarking — just don’t think it belongs in search results pages.

By: tony scott

tony scott — Fri, 05 Jan 2007 14:21:32 +0000

Does digg rank high in yahoo msn

By: Hagrin

Hagrin — Thu, 04 Jan 2007 05:54:23 +0000

I hate when people post blog spam, but after commenting first here today, I really thought about this tons and finally wrote something up (no ads on the site) –
http://www.hagrin.com/node/239

I’d be curious to see what Pros and Cons I may have missed. Personally, after hashing it all out by writing about it, I’m 99% comfortable with just using the Google CSE option (although, they do need to give users the ability to add this as their main search box on their IG pages).

By: JT McNaught

JT McNaught — Thu, 04 Jan 2007 04:15:45 +0000

I am of the opinion that any site, including search engines that promote other peoples content are of extream value to the authors. Getting decent ranking in the search engines for any article is impossible today unless the article has tons of sites backlinking to it. Web 2.0 – Social Community Websites like Digg.com, Delicious.com, IsPopularOnline.com, and all websites that publish RSS content and are treated like celebrities and given red carpet treatment because people like them for the good job they do promoting the material.

Google is actually a very fair search engine, but you need to understand the criteria that must be met to earn a good ranking.

Personally I think that adsense sites are in no way favored by google. I do know that if your site content is ever-changing, your articles are unique, and many sites link to your website articles that you will have a great ranking website. Digg does all this and this is why Google ranks diggs. The reason the diggs may rank better than the articles themselves is because Digg users can post diggs to their blogs. Thsi is a very efficient way to backlink the digged article hence the digg post can sometimes easily get a better ranking than an article that has not been published effectively far and wide on the internet.

By: Skitzzo (SEOrefugee)

Skitzzo (SEOrefugee) — Thu, 04 Jan 2007 02:03:43 +0000

Here are my proposed fixes to these issues.

http://www.seorefugee.com/seoblog/2007/01/03/a-response-to-digg-listings-in-google-results/

I think that would give us the best of both worlds.

By: kav

kav — Wed, 03 Jan 2007 15:21:26 +0000

Sites like digg are treated like celebrities and given red carpet treatment. It’s elitist in every regard. With google it’s about reputation not content. Small “mom and pop” niche sites can’t and will never be able to compete on that level. At this point digg may be the only way for niche sites to be found on google.

Personally I think that adsense sites are favored by google, but not across the board. It’s the nature of capitalism to exploit that benefit.

By: Sanderson

Sanderson — Wed, 03 Jan 2007 15:18:34 +0000

Exactly, well said Dave, Digg is social bookmarking site and one shouldn’t compare it with search engine. Both are operated very differently. I have seen some posters are posting all kind of news just one after another. God knows, before posting it to dig, even they have read it fully or not?

By: Dave White

Dave White — Wed, 03 Jan 2007 15:00:01 +0000

IMO Digg should not be given too much preference from the search engine’s view point. There are so many fake accounts in Digg and that may really mess things up for SE and in turn for us in future.

By: Free Online Games

Free Online Games — Wed, 03 Jan 2007 05:49:03 +0000

Digg results themselves should be omitted, but the actual content that digg is linking to should benefit just like ben said. Theres no reason why a person should have to filter through digg, when they are looking for actual content. I hear time after time in SEO blogs that its not smart to link back to linkfarms, but yet Digg is a jumbo link farm and this seems ok? Goofy.

By: Ben

Ben — Wed, 03 Jan 2007 05:14:52 +0000

Digg should not be included in Google search results. It’s no different than a link to Yahoo’s page of results for whatever search term you entered popping up in Google results. What would that accomplish? There is no original content on Digg, just links. The only content generated on Digg are comments. The links on Digg should benefit a placement or to for being on Digg, but that’s about it.