URL banned by Digg.com

[ninjashoes]

Its really not a big deal, theres new Digg clones emerging every day. You won't get as much traffic as from Digg which is the biggest but the traffic is temporary anyway even if you do manage to get dugg a few hundred times.

Reddit
Clesto
Tech
Furl
Delicious
Techtagg
Spurl

the list goes on and on

[TheBrain]

Originally Posted by ninjashoes

Its really not a big deal, theres new Digg clones emerging every day. You won't get as much traffic as from Digg which is the biggest but the traffic is temporary anyway even if you do manage to get dugg a few hundred times.

Reddit
Clesto
Tech
Furl
Delicious
Techtagg
Spurl

the list goes on and on

Are you calling the above mentioned sites "digg clones"?! Including Furl? I don't get it. How can Furl be a clone of digg? Furl was there way before digg!

[simple]

It sounds better if you say Digg copied Furl. Makes better since.

[transburgh]

A site that I was working on for marketing got banned by Digg before I joined and now the new company blog can not use Digg. I'm very unimpressed by the way Digg has handled this situation thus far.

[Hostnetric]

Seems more like a 17th century witch hunt. I am seeing more and more posts that are similar to this one now on forums.

[Sabeur]

I have never liked Digg - i don't even use it on my blog for people to add my posts. Digg has members who just see one thing wrong and you have hell upon you - Most if not all their member act in child-like ways.

I am more into the new service which is taking Digg right on, ShoutWire. If you see what happend when they found ShoutWire to be based around the same idea - ht*p://www.digg.com/tech_news/Digg_Clone (Not worth givin backlinks).

Digg is anther Web 2.0 Junky

Peace

[Hostnetric]

Originally Posted by Sabeur

I have never liked Digg - i don't even use it on my blog for people to add my posts. Digg has members who just see one thing wrong and you have hell upon you - Most if not all their member act in child-like ways.

I am more into the new service which is taking Digg right on, ShoutWire. If you see what happend when they found ShoutWire to be based around the same idea - ht*p://www.digg.com/tech_news/Digg_Clone (Not worth givin backlinks).

Digg is anther Web 2.0 Junky

Peace

I have to agree Digg seems to be pretty biased and a few of the top guys control most of the information that seems to make the front pages. They do not like competition, but then many do not. Quite honestly competition can be good for everyone. Sometimes just allowing your competitor to find new ways to not do something is a good way for you to fix a problem before it happens to you. They also may come up with a marketing method that only further helps your business. You see this everyday with such businesses as Home Depot, Menards and Lowes for example. They open their stores within only a mile or two of each other and they state that their business for most of these stores actually goes up because they draw in more people.

Many at Digg are young kids who have their eyes closed and are not simply willing to see if something is better. They only know what they know and belonging to something like Digg is sort of like a club addiction for them. The problem is that getting accepted there now is hard to do and sometimes near impossible. It was for these reasons that you see sites starting to pop-up and become moderately to highly successful. People are simply looking for a better way to share their news stories and become social in a more friendly environment.

[Sabeur]

Thank you Hostnetric, you took the words right out of my mouth, lol.

[Hostnetric]

Originally Posted by Sabeur

Thank you Hostnetric, you took the words right out of my mouth, lol.

LOL you are welcome my wife says I am to long winded.

[TheBrain]

Originally Posted by Marketing Guy

People shouldn't consider "spam" as being "buy cheap ****** now" type posts. Not every piece of content you write needs to be submitted to Digg, which I think is a key mistake a lot of people are making............
Social marketing is not like SEO - you can't simply apply the same concept or techniques to each page of your site and expect similar results. You need to choose your points of "attack" more carefully or you get burned with crap like this.

MG

Well, I am afraid your point, although good overall, lacks some important information. And you can find this information here, where you can also learn how to be a dirty digger. A quote from this article is more than relevant for what I mean:

Ok I’ve been carrying this post around in my head for a while and am I’m finally going to spill it, here are my tips on how to completely screw your competition in a web 2.0 social media world.

But, the actual point of the article is:

I’m sure someone is going to submit this story and as sure as the sun rises in the east it will get buried. Why … plain and simple it doesn’t agree with the “typical” digg users world view. Despite the fact that it’s true and making adjustments based on the information would be a wise choice, sadly it will go largely unnoticed.

And by the way, do you consider Lee Odden's blog spam?

[danielmichel]

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[searchbliss]

I just added this post to Digg!
http://www.digg.com/design/URLs_Banned_by_Digg

I'll see what happens.

[QwkSand]

Originally Posted by Hostnetric

Many at Digg are young kids who have their eyes closed and are not simply willing to see if something is better. They only know what they know and belonging to something like Digg is sort of like a club addiction for them. The problem is that getting accepted there now is hard to do and sometimes near impossible. It was for these reasons that you see sites starting to pop-up and become moderately to highly successful. People are simply looking for a better way to share their news stories and become social in a more friendly environment.

I don't think these young kids have their eyes closed. I think it's because there are also some interesting stuff to surf through in Digg that's why they still use it. And I think they knoe that here are much better social sites, just not as interesting and friendly-looking as Digg.

I'm also thinking the reason why Digg bans a lot of websites is because it would want to remain as a purely social site and not as a service to people who wwants to promote their sites by adding every post they make or something. just my opinion, by the way!

[QwkSand]

Originally Posted by searchbliss

I just added this post to Digg!
http://www.digg.com/design/URLs_Banned_by_Digg

I'll see what happens.

Keep us posted! Lots of us are intereted (obviously)!

[searchbliss]

Well only three Diggs so far, but not burried yet.
Digg it and let's see if we can get this thread on the first page!
http://www.digg.com/design/URLs_Banned_by_Digg

[searchbliss]

6 Diggs now.

Keep digging!
http://www.digg.com/design/URLs_Banned_by_Digg

[Sabeur]

Digged you for the hell of it,

[searchbliss]

Thanks Sabeur.
That make 7 Diggs!

Keep digging and get v7n on page 1!
http://www.digg.com/design/URLs_Banned_by_Digg

[2046]

First time to hear a site gets banned in digg. I will remove all of the digg buttons from my site.

[searchbliss]

That make 8 Diggs!

Keep digging and get v7n on page 1!
http://www.digg.com/design/URLs_Banned_by_Digg