Launched on Apr 2nd, 2009, DiggBar has become a default url shortener of many people (I see it many tweeps use it on Twitter). Some find it handy and useful to gain traffic and votes, while others think it may cause damage to a website search ranking. Check out what others say about DiggBar here.
The DiggBar Changes Things At Digg (Some for the Worse)
First things first, what is the DiggBar? It is basically an iframed toolbar that was released by Digg this week. The toolbar has two purposes: the first one is to serve as a URL shortener service. The second one is to allow users of the toolbar to interact with the Digg stories in a different way.
The DiggBar - a Revolution for Social News Agregation
My method to Digging or Redditing has always been to click on multiple links, on say the homepage, read them and then go back to either digg or bury them. this becomes problematic for links say in the most popular section, or when ive gone to different pages. with the diggbar the articles are displayed inline with the functionality to digg and bury--all in the same page. for me this move makes sense, and its one of the best things digg has done as a site in the time ive been using it. the added usability to the site is astounding, and a much needed bonus feature for the 'original' (i use that term lightly) social news agregate. Congrats Kevin Rose.
Remove the DiggBar from your site (Wordpress plug-in)
To remove it from my blog I made a simple Wordpress plugin, that basically adds a few lines of JavaScript to each blog page. When your site is opened in the frame, this code redirects parent page directly to your site. This effectively closes the DiggBar.
Deciphering Digg: Itchy Trigger Finger and the DiggBar
And my proof of this? Well before the DiggBar there was no mechanism to tell you as a submitter if people were actually looking at your story. But if you notice in the DiggBar they give pretty heavy prominence to how many views a page is getting. Yes diggs and comments are important, but their interface is confirming that views is part of that trinity. And thanks to that DiggBar we know have a confirmation that this is an important part of their formula.
Digg's new Diggbar will destroy other short url services
A short URL is automatically created for the page, and the Diggbar has one big advantage over other competitors like TinyURL, bit.ly, and Is.gd: name recognition. There's no doubt that the service will benefit from not only from Digg's popluarity, but also from Kevin Rose's massive Twitter following and general "star power."
Is DiggBar Twitter’s New Power Tool?
When I first heard about the impending launch of the DiggBar, I was annoyed more than anything else. The DiggDigg reviewsDigg reviews team has a longstanding tradition of sneering at sites that mimic the functionality of their site while claiming themselves to be innovators in the space (though they themselves evolved from Del.icio.us and Slashdot).
With that in mind, the idea of Digg so blatantly copying StumbleUponStumbleUpon reviewsStumbleUpon reviews’s recent jump from a browser-based toolbar to an iframe toolbar felt hypocritical (heck even Reddit has had a toolbar for a while now). Now that the toolbar has been released to the public, however, it turns that this isn’t just a simple toolbar, this is one of the best decisions Digg has made in a very long time.
DiggBar Keeps All Digg Homepage Traffic On Digg
The Twitter crowd already loves this based on all the chatter I saw on the site today. This will also expose a lot of new people to Digg since anyone that clicks on the link will see the toolbar wrapper with the view count, Digg comments and other information on the top. And it will also increase Digg’s overall traffic substantially - unlike other short URL services, Digg doesn’t simply redirect to the longer URL. It keeps you on Digg and shows the site being pointed to in an iframe wrapper. You can get to the underlying URL by clicking on the X button on the top right.
Remove the DiggBar from your Pages
I am really very mad at digg for launching something like DiggBar. It will cause a lot of problems for the Webmasters in the long run and some of them are.
- No Link Love from Digg
- Ranking Tools Like Alexa won’t see the Visit to your site.
How to Abuse the New DiggBar for Fun and Profit
Rule Number one of operating a web 2.0 user generated content website, if you don’t have someone involved in your development process who thinks about how to abuse the system, and put steps in place to prevent it, someone else will publish a handy step by step guide on how to abuse your system …In case you missed the news yesterday Digg announced the new URL shortner/digg bar. What the tool does is frame your website, notice the diggbar at the top in the screen shot below
Digg's Rose and Adelson Talk About Diggbar, New Features
It keeps you on their site. And it will actually take you deeper into their site because the bar shows you related stories from that site as opposed to having to go back to Digg and do a search there.
DiggBar, Make Digg Navigation more Simple
DiggBar Use Or AbuseDigg, a social bookmarking sites where users can find news and share content from anywhere on the Internet, has created a new feature, namely DiggBar. DiggBar Interface will be applied in Digg Blog interface. The fact about DiggBar is this feature is not like a traditional toolbar that must be downloaded and installed, but DiggBar more practical. DiggBar has roll-over style navigation, to save more time and place when see the greater page.
More and more people are aware of social media on the Internet. Everyone recognizes Facebook and Twitter. Another very popular social media service is Digg. This is a website where you can vote on your favorite web pages. A very significant change was introduced on the Digg Blog. It is called the DiggBar. Here is a short video that shows what it is all about.
DiggBar Launched; URL Shorteners, Webmasters Cry Foul
I was reading an interesting story the other day that I meant to blog about, but you can add that to the list of things destroyed by the launch of Digg's aptly named "DiggBar." The piece in question was a TechCrunch article that examined the estimated worth of the URL shortening services. You know what I'm talking about--those crudely named sites like bit.ly, is.gd, and ff.im that redirect URLs you submit using a shortened URL made up of random numbers and letters.
Here’s how the DiggBar works, when someone checks out a link that is posted they are taken to a page on Digg’s website where the web site is in an iFrame below the DiggBar. Sounds OK on the surface, but there’s plenty of SEO fanatics are worried this may cause cause damage to a website search ranking. There is no way of knowing for certain until the summer Google Dance, by the way rumor has it that the April 9th will be the latest page rank update.
DiggBar Killer (GreaseMonkey script)
Kill the DiggBar for those who don't have a user account and/or deny Digg cookies. You'll never see the bar again.
Create DiggBar Short URLs with PHP
Using the Digg Short URL portion of the Digg API and PHP’s XML Parser, we will be able to kill 2 birds with one stone: allow our pages to be easily Diggable, and provide shortened URLs.
This function utilizes curl to contact Digg, which sends a reply in XML format. Using PHP’s XML Parser, we grab the portion of the XML we need for our short URL and return it.
DiggBar Digs up Bitter Nostalgia Among Critics
Digg's new URL-shortening feature is aggregating as much controversy for the popular web site as it is traffic.
Critics are taking aim at the structure of DiggBar — a toolbar appearing at the top of a browser when users click a link at Digg. The bar displays the content of other sites in a frame, keeping web surfers inside the Digg domain rather than sending them directly to the source of content.
Analysis: Which URL Shortening Service Should You Use?
URL shortening services are experiencing a renaissance in the age of Twitter. When every character counts, these services reduce long URLs to tiny forms. But which is the best to use, when so many are offered and new ones seem to appear each day? Below, issues to consider and a breakdown of popular services, including recommendations and services to avoid (the new DiggBar being one of these).
The DiggBar features sponsored links as well
If you click on the DiggBar’s “Random” button a few times, you’ll eventually be taken not to a dugg story but to a site labeled “Sponsored link…” in the DiggBar. This is a site you can’t digg or do anything else to because all the options are taken away (see screenshot). Instead, you can only hit “Random” again to move on from the page.
Diggbar sucks. The fact that Digg even had the balls to put this on their site with no way to disable it shows how arrogant they have become. Here is a quick rundown as to why the Diggbar sucks.
DiggBar Improves The Social Networking Experience
On Digg’s official blog, Kevin Rose has announced the launching of a new product, called DiggBar. This utility will allow to the Digg users to better perform common tasks, like sharing stories, reading comments published for a “dugg” article, rapidly finding related Digg news and more. On the other hand, the DiggBar will automatically generate a short URL for the currently viewed web page, therefore you will be able to easily share the same story through email or different social networks, such as Twitter or Facebook.
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