Digg adds nofollow to some links, How does this effect Google SEO

Digg adds nofollow to some links,

Quote "We’ve added rel=”nofollow” to any external link that we’re not sure we can vouch for. This includes all external links from comments, user profiles and story pages below a certain threshold of popularity."

Take a look http://blog.digg.com/?p=864

 

I thought they were already nofollow?

 

I guess not...

 

whoa this is bad news,
some of my sites will lose its PR then

 

Then been doing this for a while now. I guess that stops link spamming there.

 

For SEO you require quality backlinks i.e., links pointing to your from high PR website. DIGG is a high PR website ( PR 8) and "no follow" link mean it won't be passing the PR to you. So, this will effect your SEO.

 

Just find other ways to get backlinks...? It's not the end of the world.

Haha, good one!