Is Digg Dying?
Posted in Internet | By AhTim @ July 28th, 2009
Social media is one of the important source for Blogger to promote their website. To name a few there are StumbleUpon, Digg, Technorati, etc. In fact, Digg stay on top of my referer traffic source.
I’m happy with traffic that Digg bring to me until it changed the behavior of its short URLs. Instead of link to the story source, they direct visitors to a landing page on Digg.com.
Hijacked URL Links
If you think are link to your content, then you’re wrong! You are actually just pushing traffic to Digg. I don’t mean Digg don’t have right to do that. But at least should inform us, the publishers.
Digg failed to inform the community, don’t it mean they just want to force the change? Worst thing, not only new post affected. All old contents you posted on Digg are now redirect to Digg.com too.
Do You Support Terrorist?
In short, Digg want your visitors to visit Digg instead of your website. This is what we called hijacked URLs. Mean Digg has no different with Terrorist. What to do?
I’m sure this change affect the trust relationship with its publishers and users. Less trust = less content = less traffic = going to die soon? Will you continue to support Digg after the change?
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Tags: cheat url, Digg, digg landing page, hijack URL, terrorist
August 3rd, 2009 at 7:38 pm
I agree with you, if our article want to be hot then our article has to be submitted by hot digg users alone, normal digg users won’t get their article to appear on front page, but in reddit, it provide all the chances for an article to appear on the front page irrespective of the user but comments…..