Last week, Digg DiggBar from Vimeo.
Since the DiggBar was introduced, there has been a great amount of noted it would only increase traffic. He pointed out the additional sharing features (via Twiter, Facebook, and email) and that content would still receive page views, proper clicks for ads, etc.
Such reasoning has still not been enough to convince some people.
We always represent the source URL as the preferred version of the URL to search engines and use the meta noindex tag to keep DiggBar pages out of search indexes. For those of you interested in the technical details, we also include link rel=”canonical” information to indicate that the original URL is the real (canonical) version. Additional URL properties, like PageRank and related signals, are transferred as well. This is recommended by Google, Ask.com, Microsoft and Yahoo!.
Will this information set some minds at ease, or will Digg's word about its practices not be good enough? One thing's for certain - Digg is going to keep a lot of eyeballs on it's own site with the DiggBar as it focuses users' attention on what else they can find on Digg.
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