First, youtube changed their external links to ajax (therefore not indexable). Now digg is moving to the diggbar.
I've been following the diggbar because it greatly effects how I parasitically use digg. The toolbar just got launched a few days ago, so the final verdict is unclear.
On one hand, it's great because now the user sees my page immediately (no intermediate digg page) if I use the diggbar url and I still will get the domain authority of digg because it's not on a subdomain or different domain (like stumbleupon's will be).
On the other hand, it blows. The url looks like digg.com/z5kss so the title is removed from the url, the description pushed to a meta tag & only 3 comments show in the html (in a hidden div). 98% of the page is toolbar shit and an iframe.
Furthermore, from looking at the source of the old digg pages it appears digg links to your site using the title, but changes it via javascript to the diggbar url ... then changes it back after a click so digg can iframe your page.
I'm pretty positive that yahoo will continue counting this as a backlink, but since gbot & slurp have been known to read javascript & not count iframed pages as links, who fucking knows what's going to happen.
testing in progress ....... discuss
I've been following the diggbar because it greatly effects how I parasitically use digg. The toolbar just got launched a few days ago, so the final verdict is unclear.
On one hand, it's great because now the user sees my page immediately (no intermediate digg page) if I use the diggbar url and I still will get the domain authority of digg because it's not on a subdomain or different domain (like stumbleupon's will be).
On the other hand, it blows. The url looks like digg.com/z5kss so the title is removed from the url, the description pushed to a meta tag & only 3 comments show in the html (in a hidden div). 98% of the page is toolbar shit and an iframe.
Furthermore, from looking at the source of the old digg pages it appears digg links to your site using the title, but changes it via javascript to the diggbar url ... then changes it back after a click so digg can iframe your page.
I'm pretty positive that yahoo will continue counting this as a backlink, but since gbot & slurp have been known to read javascript & not count iframed pages as links, who fucking knows what's going to happen.
testing in progress ....... discuss
