The running feud between the SEO community and the Digg news site heated up again, with accusation of Digg automatically burying certain stories.
SEOs Claim Digg Auto-Buries Stories
Lee Odden dealing with his domain being
A story they submitted as a test was buried after about 20 Diggs. Patel has a link to a document showing 10,000 buries made by Digg users for that day. None of them appear to have buried the story, and our search for the story in the list of buries didn't turn up Patel's test.
According to Patel, the last referrer to the story's page came from crawl3.digg.internal. Then the story was buried. This seems to indicate the bury happened internally, either by a Digg insider or through an algorithmic test.
Reaction from the SEO community was predictably critical of Digg. Andy Hagans at
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