Lee Odden of Online Marketing Blog wrote today about yet an apparent means of frustration for marketers and SEOs: being banned from Digg.
Digg has become a socialization success story rather quickly with added traffic and use, along with a positive buzz in the blogosphere, however, because of their rather minimal and unorganized policies, their product has been exploited.
“There are a lot of good things in digg and it would be a shame to see it peter out because of DMOZ style power trips (as Jill says) and “baby out with the bathwater” style editorial policies.”
The SEO community has been speaking out about this, as many of the most vocal banned parties come from this segment. This is probably a very understandable, as it is SEOs that see the potential value of high visibility on the popular portal.
Is banning the answer? I don’t think so. My suggestion would be to strengthen the policies in place or create new policies to handle this abuse. Stopping the user experience is not the way. Everyone knows that if there is a vulnerability that someone can exploit they will. Like the search algos, they need to firm up the standards, certainly not listen to others that are not impartial.
Related news, SEOYak.com has reached out to the SEO community with a Digg style format for popular stories and topics. Good Luck SEOYak!
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