Digg has become the new site to join the ranks of the NoFollow tag…. sort of. Digg has started adding the NoFollow link to posts that are not popular. Digg has implemented NoFollow links to all its posts aside from those that make it to the home page. Everything else, when you click on the link, rather than take you to that page, it creates what looks like a portal to the site, where you can view the site in its entirety, but with a Digg toolbar and frames.

I am not sure the reason they are implementing this feature to their site, whether it was due to spamming reasons, Google forced them into it or they are just trying to force people to start adding in more relevant data with better content. Whatever the reasons are, I do know that I will be much more focused on getting my information to a main page, so that we do not lose any traffic to our site.

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Article by Zack Zucker, Director of Operations, Turbo Social Media

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DoFollow links and NoFollow links are code structures embedded into the link that tell Search Spiders (these “spiders’ crawl the internet when you type in a search and look for things such as this to pull up as related information) whether or not to count it or not in the search results. DoFollow links are counted and NoFollow links are not.

You might be wondering what the points of this are, I mean, who in their right mind would not want to take advantage of the SEO that comes with the DoFollow links. well there are three main reasons for this:

1. Paid Links. Google recommends you do this as it interferes with page rankings. You essentially pay for a higher rank, and they do not like this
2. When linking to major and popular sites. When linking to large sites such as Google, Yahoo or CNN, it does not make or break any power to your site, and just adds, cluster
3. NoFollow in comment sections. People often times take advantage of comments sections and put in a whole bunch of links. They get page ranking powers from this, which may overcome your site, it’s your own preference but again it is recommended.

If you are not too worried about any of the above information, then the DoFollow link is just right for you (technically there is no DoFollow tag, you just do not use the NoFollow HTML tag when editing and it works like a DoFollow

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Article by Zack Zucker, Director of Operations, Turbo Social Media

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