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Feb 07
Feb 07
by Cameron Olthuis Strategy with 4 Comments
Kevin Rose, founder of Digg, has just announced that as of tomorrow they will take down the Top Diggers list in an attempt to slow down the gaming of Digg.
After considerable internal debate and discussion with many of those who make up the Top Digger list, we’ve decided to remove the list beginning tomorrow.
Even though Kevin says that this move was discussed with many Diggers that make up the Top Digger list I expect that this will upset quite a few of the active members. I personally know several people whom are top diggers and I can tell you this as much news to them as it is to you and I.
It is widely known that Digg can be a powerful resource for link building. A story that hits the homepage of Digg can often result in 500-1000 links to that site. This has made Digg very popular within the SEO community and because there are many people who can’t write good enough content to make the homepage they resort to trying gaming the system.
What does this have to do with the story? Well many people have begun offering Top Diggers payment if they will submit their stories and many are even trying to buy powerful Digg accounts. So will this slow it down? I suppose it will a little bit but that comes at the expense of making the core user base of Digg upset. It will still not be hard to find out who the powerful Diggers are either, but it will slow a lot of people down
It will be interesting to see how the community reacts to this news. What do you think, will it upset the Diggers? Will this slow down the gaming of Digg?
[via: Marketing Pilgrim]
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It will upset the Diggers. It won’t stop the gaming.
When it comes right down to it, if there’s money to be made by gaming a system, than that system’s going to have to deal with the players until there’s no more money to be made.
Im sure it will upset everyone that uses Digg. Especially the gamers. But im sure they will still try and I think digg will bring it back eventually.
Just my .02
What can a top digger be bought for. Something I never got around to but it appealed to me to buy someone at the top rather than attempting to game digg myself.
Max, most of them can’t be bought from my knowledge. Your best bet is to work with someone who offers either social media marketing or linkbait services, usually they can help you create content that appeals to the Digg audience.