Comments on: The Digg Bar is Bad For SEO

By: alex

alex — Mon, 22 Jun 2009 14:21:49 +0000

That one didn’t work for you either? Hmmm. I tried it on my site and seemed to work fine. Here’s another code. I haven’t tested this one, but I pulled it from the No Frames WordPress plugin:

if (top.location!= self.location) {top.location = self.location.href}

By: Joe Budelis

Joe Budelis — Thu, 11 Jun 2009 11:50:20 +0000

Alex – I inserted your code on my page given above. It still works on IE but not on Firefox.

By: alex

alex — Wed, 10 Jun 2009 14:19:20 +0000

Hey Joe,

How about this code. I’ve tested it on one of my sites and it works in Firefox 3;

if (top !== self) top.location.replace(self.location.href);

This still goes between the javascript tags, but I can’t get them to show up in my comment.

By: Joe Budelis

Joe Budelis — Tue, 09 Jun 2009 14:41:34 +0000

This code does not appear to work for Firefox. Has anyone found code that does? To demonstrate the problem, I put this code on my blog: http://persimmontelecom.blogspot.com/

Then I submitted a couple of my blog pages to DIGG. See:
http://digg.com/business_finance/This_Economy_makes_some_Businesses_More_Profitable

If I click the link “This Economy makes some Businesses More Profitable” in IE, the code works as indicated. However, if I click that link in Firefox 3.0.10, it doesn’t work.

By: Alysson

Alysson — Fri, 17 Apr 2009 22:10:11 +0000

That a bunch for sharing, especially the WordPress plugin link. Suck it, Digg.

By: Nick Stamoulis

Nick Stamoulis — Thu, 16 Apr 2009 19:07:53 +0000

It is just another way to keep that user contained within the walls of Digg.

By: Andrew Brinkworth

Andrew Brinkworth — Wed, 15 Apr 2009 21:24:10 +0000

This is really valuable thanks for the info.
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Wed, 15 Apr 2009 15:27:07 +0000

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kstudio » links for 2009-04-14 — Wed, 15 Apr 2009 01:06:57 +0000

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By: alex

alex — Tue, 14 Apr 2009 19:36:10 +0000

@CasinoSpammer, I think you need to use a variety of ways to build links to your site and Digg is only one of them.