It looks like Digg changed how they handle links in the last few months. When you click on a link, it keeps it in a digg frame. Are these links worth anything then?
if you ask me, they are worthless, unless your article gets so many diggs that it ends up on the first page
What about from a "link juice" perspective? Does it help or is it essentially the same as no-follow now?
They keep the frame for logged in users. For search bots the frame is not shown. So digg links still have the same link juice before 'diggbar' was introduced.
Digg works well for indexing, and the linkjuice seems to be the same as ever. Of course you're not ever getting much passed PR unless you make it to page 1, but still worthwhile imo.
Rlestina was right. I have experience putting my article on digg and in just 2 minutes my new site is visible on google search...
Digg, helps a lot in generating traffic. Digg your article regularly you can get a constant traffic from them. I get quite decent traffic from many social bookmarking sites.
Pligg sites are surprisingly a good method of getting your content indexed quickly, Pligg is a spin off of Digg i believe. I have a long list of Do follow pligg sites if you need it just pm me Good luck
I don't know why other hates Digg, but i submitted around 10 posts in digg on different dates. I got some good traffic from it. Even i didn't put lot of dedication towards it but it was real good experience with it. Don't calculate it as a backlinks or that you have to get many diggs. Just submit every new post of your website in Digg and see some increase in traffic.
They are useful in the fact if they gain traction bloggers will blog about things they see on Digg that are interesting, and those links can be valuable.
If we think about this rationally, we're talking about quite a few outgoing links on that site, so the links aren't going to be worth much-much like the forum sig's here actually. That being said, once you start to get into the hundreds of Diggs those can really add up.
Upcoming links on Digg now have nofollow on them, so Google should handle them however they usually handle nofollowed links. At least they stopped showing the framed URL to the search engines - it was set up like that for a few weeks and lots of webmasters got loudly and rightly pissed off.
Thanks, that's helpful. After searching for an answer, I also found the blog post where Digg said that unless it gets above a certain popularity, then it is nofollow. I wonder what that level is (i.e. how many Diggs).
It can be very effective if you dig it at the right time of day (6-10PM) and if your article is attention grabbing. That way you get more diggs and potentially get to the front page of digg. That's a huge boost in traffic for a few days.
I use digg only to index my new websites. If you have quality content then you can aspect to reach on first page and assume traffic flow