About Digg.

[emily vance]

According to the latest  news, Digg has started nofollowing links that it doesnt trust. I was submitting one blog to digg today and saw large number of nofollow links. Then i browsed other sections and there also i saw many nofollows.

So here is the end of another good tool which helped us in fast crawling and indexing of new pages. There is hardly any authority site left which has no made all external links nofollow. I wonder how crawlers will crawl digg posts now.

[Kahnsee]

Hey,
Apparently Google thinks highly of Digg. Pages submitted to Digg are reportedly crawled and indexed within hours. Then they start nofollowing their links. Does this change the nature of Digg?

Not at all. The site still serves the same purpose, and I can't see why Google would change it's functionality in the way it treats links on Digg.

I'm not arguing that nofollow stops the transfer of PageRank. I'm just still thinking that some sort of value is still transferred, whether it be topical, geographical, or whatever, even viral (and I think viral is becoming a forth dimension in ranking, as is seen in the "freshness" of results in the Caffeine update).

A simple nofollow should not change that. It would just imply that Digg does not vouch for the nature of the sites submitted to it, which I would imagine Google has already inferred based upon the large scale of Digg's social nature.

Google isn't dumb. It knows the purpose Digg serves.

[jeremy]

Hi all,
Just got to thinking about it, and this would be a prime way to test whether or no nofollow links actually do get indexed. I'd bet they do.

Go to digg with a new account, post a link to a new page with some filler content. Make sure the page has no links other than the one from digg. Make sure that link from digg is nofollow from the moment it goes live.

If the page winds up in the index, then nofollow is just a reflection on the site hosting the link. If it is not indexed, then it really does what everyone else claims it does.

I still believe that nofollowed links are "followed" and indexed as long as they come from a reputable site. Only that no value is passed through that link.
Thanx