Shoemoney tip for Digg

I was listening to RushHour a few days ago, and they were talking to ShoeMoney on getting the most out of Social Media. One of the hints that ShoeMoney gave was that members of digg are turned off by sites that have prominent ‘Digg This’ buttons.

So here is some quick & easy code that hides the ‘Digg This’ button if the visitor is from Digg.

Change this:

<script src="http://digg.com/tools/diggthis.js" type="text/javascript"></script>

Code (markup):

(This is the code used to display the standard Digg button)

To this:

<script type="text/javascript">
if (document.referrer.replace(’www.’,”).toLowerCase().substring(0,15)!=’http://digg.com’)
document.write(’\<script src=”http://digg.com/tools/diggthis.js” type=”text/javascript”\>\</script\>’);
</script>

Code (markup):

Happy Digging!


This code has been reprinted from my blog http://gathadams.com

 

Nice tip. I let them rate site on digg and do not use digg buttons.

 

If you're not using the Digg button, then what are you using? Are you making users vote without knowing?

 

EGS - the visitors from digg vote on the digg.com site. Other visitors see the button.