As the weeks have gone by, the notoriously iffy members of the Digg community have come to air their animated gripes against Digg’s much vaunted URL shortener, the DiggBar. Of course, it’s more than just a URL shortener. DiggBar operates as an iframe that keeps traffic on the Digg website.
Apart from the displeasure voiced by Digg users, many webmasters have asserted that Digg’s default URL shortener simply creates a disincentive for content to be featured on the renowned social bookmarking site. The URL redirection does not pass on link authority to the intended web page, thereby depriving content creators of a major portion of Internet credit.
However, Digg seems to have chosen to redress much of the SEO community’s grievances. In a blog post, Digg’s John Quinn announced that the social bookmarking service would soon create permanent redirects to all content providers’ web pages thereby giving them full link credit.
