Will DiggBar create duplicate content issues?

A question from Remiz Rahnas from Kerala, India. Remiz asks”Will DiggBar create duplicate content issues? For example: my site is www.example.com and now when you add digg.com before my site’s address (digg.com/example.com), it is showing a page from Digg.com with my content (exactly the same).”

The short answer is no. So as Digg originally launched it, it could have caused duplicate issues and infact it could have resulted in pages being removed from Google. But they made a number of changes to make things better. The big one in Google’s point of view is that it had a meta no index tag. So that itself says anything that we know of that’s on Digg that’s one of these framed short URLs, we’ll have a no index tag that tells Google not to index that page. We just don’t show any reference to it at all in our search results. So the fact that we see two copies and one is a meta no index means yes we won’t show this one and so we should correctly assign all the page rank and all the other characteristics to your original content. So the Digg bar as originally implemented was a little dangerous. But they quickly adjusted and integrated and made some changes that made it such that you shouldn’t have duplicate content issues. Now as a webmaster do I like framing my site without my permission? I’m not a huge fan of that so there a lot of people who think the Digg bar is rude but if I put on your search engine policy hat it is no longer a violation of search engine quality guidelines or Google’s guidelines and it shouldn’t cause any duplicate content issues for your site.

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