I just published another rockin article on Digg, the privacy breach at Digg and how it effects your search engine rankings.

http://www.keywebdata.com/?p=79

I have very detailed documentation but Digg has yet to address it.

In looking at your content I would like to know what you think either here on your blog, in my comments or feel free to email me. = Chris Lang

Chris Lang’s last blog post..How to Get More Diggs, Digg Privacy Breach and How Shouts Can Hurt Your Search Engine Rankings

Don’t submit your own posts.

Don’t Digg you own posts.

I made that clear right away in the beginning of the SMC thread.

The question here is “Does shouting Digg items that are linked to your blog posts become detrimental to your Google ranking?”

While my blog post got dropped from Google Websearch it is still #1 in Blogsearch for 4 days in a row. That is unheard of for blogs. As a blog post ages it is pushed down the list in Blogsearch.

It is possible that Google dropped my blog post from Websearch because it aged.

If Digg did not want us to shout Digg items they would not have the shout feature. If they wanted to quash self promotion they would add NoFollow to the links.

But I have my shouts set to private. However in your public profiles your shouts are visible to all including Google.

I am contacting Digg to see if this is a coding error or a anti spam feature.

The question that remains to be answered is this: Does Google find your shouts to your friends to be a negative indicator when the Digg item is from your site?

Now my test article “how to get more diggs” was submitted by a Digg power user. Not me, not one of my friends.

After I found that it had been Dugg I shouted it to my friends list.

Is that blatant self promotion? Yes. Does Google slap you down for it? We will find out. My next test will be to find my own content when someone else submits it. But I won’t shout it to my list. I will get my personal (not digg) friends to shout it.

Now if the post shoots up and then gets kicked off, it is just the way blogs rank.

Also blogs are ranked completely differently by Google than static web sites.

http://www.squidoo.com/blog-seo

I want to make sure that you all know that I am not out to spam Digg. If I wanted to do that I would create 50 fake profiles and go totally black hat and I wouldn’t tell anybody about it. That is not for me.

What I have been trying to do is find a strategy that can get you Dugg, get your original blog posts ranked higher and increase your search engine rankings without being a spammer.

I actually just added a reply to the SMC thread that, Yeah, if Google only finds you in Digg and not at the same popularity in Stumble, Delicious, ect. then you are going to look like a spammer. It is not a naturally popular item.

If it takes your own time and effort to get a high popularity ranking on social bookmarking sites you end up spending all your time on it. How can you market yourself, write high end content and make a living if you are spending all your time on bookmarking networks?

Keep following the thread on SMC and we will see because I am going to delete all the shouts seen in my public profile. If the popularity goes down then shouts found by Google are a positive indicator. If not then don’t shout your own stuff either.

I have also asked Jack Humphrey and Andy Beard to comment on the thread. I almost don’t want their answers, I would rather figure it out myself and have fun using my brain.

I welcome your comments on my original blog post or the Digg item found under “how to get more diggs”.

Cheers = Chris Lang
http://www.keywebdata.com/seo-tactics.php

Chris Lang’s last blog post..How to Get More Diggs

P.S. Thanks for the link!

These then make it very easy for me to point and click to bookmark my sites.

Apart from that, it just needs to become a habit, like saying “Hello” to someone! When you see a post you like, think how you can share it and act on it….

Don’t worry, it will become easier.

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