i have learnt that google has over 200 factors in its algorithm for SERP - but does it have the digg factor [rating the website or article in a top position in SERP if the article has huge diggs] ? if not , do you think Google will make the wise decision to include this factor in its SERP algorithms ?it could also have a look at delicious and other possible ways to tweek its algos.what do you think about this pal ? iam not saying it has to give top priority to this factor - but just suggesting that google could take this factor into account.
DIGG links are DOFOLLOW, so if your News get more diggs it will get higher weight, so your page will get a backlink from higher weighted page. So i think DIGG itself helps google to get the quality content from search terms.
having digg is taken into the google calculation. reason its an authority site that provides do-follow links
I don't think they have Digg as a factor in their algorithm and never will because that will make searches subjective and not objective. However the links provided by digg would have been counted just like any other links if they were do-follow but they are not.
Because the voting process can be easily manipulated. Can't imagine how much webmasters are willing to pay just to climb on top of the search results.
No Google does not have anything like Digg line in its algorithm file but as everyone knows, Google does care about the authority links and such links, especially the permanent ones coming from the social bookmarking sites can always be helpful, especially for having the pages indexed faster.
I think this thread is pretty confused as people seem to be talking all different subjects. I think the topic starter is asking about the up and down arrows that Google is including in their search results now (at least if you are logged into your Google account) --- The question is, how big of a role will these up and down votes play in the search results (if any) and what are the pros and cons of using them. The obvious con is that it seems like a system that could be gamed relatively easily (paying people to give your site "up" votes) although perhaps Google can find a system to sort through most of the gaming? If so then... Yes from a searchers stand point I think it could be a good thing. And as a white hat marketing type, I think it'd probably work out pretty well for me too.
One thing about this thread is, Google see sites from Digg but not all, there's big chances if you are on top and submissions with more vote will have chances to go on top and more likely seen and indexed by google. As for Google algorithm, there are some says even a link on nofollow sites could give points, it's the authority of that site as well as the quality of the content that is probably counted, who knows.
its good google not count diff in algo factor, bcoz people submit duplicate url and internal url in digg so its become lots of link of similar pages.
Hello... Well if your going to use "digg" in the algo you might as well use twitter, facebook, and others to rank sites also... laterz malcolm
Well i never said it would be easy to integrate or if its even worth the trouble DIGG... you can buy your way to the top (so ive heard anyway) Twitter... I keep getting daily messages from same person (to respond...so i wont) Facebook... I dont like it, nor do i hardly ever login MYspace... great for teens but not for me Here is a new bookmarking site that might do good http://zurps.com I see social network sites popping up daily to where they are saturating the web now and you can start your own SN for less then $25 bucks laterz malcolm
twitter and facebook are great ways to market your site, I was just pointing out that neither would help search engine rankings and that doesn't surprise me about digg, I never got into it
Digg links do help for rankings because Digg gets crawled very frequently. Therefore, a Digg link looks fresh and it passes rankings on top of the freshness.
There are sites built for the sole intention of trading diggs between the members. It is a highly exploitable system, so I don't think it will ever make much more of an impact than a standard high quality authority link.