The Digg Toolbar Exposed
by Josh Schreibman on Apr.15, 2009, under Opinion & Analysis
Adapt or Die Marketing has done a great analysis of the new Digg Bar.
This article better explains why I felt the need to create the Digg Bar Killer WordPress Plugin.
In summary:
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Digg has gone to great lengths to not affect the SEO rankings of the original content (yay Digg!)
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The Digg Bar contains javascript that provides additional analytics to Digg. In other words- Digg.com is using the Digg Bar to track your off-site activity (boo Digg!)
- It appears that Digg intends to add advertisements to the Digg Bar (boo Digg!)
Disable the Digg Bar on your WordPress site, and then read the full article here.