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Awhile ago I thought I got banned from digg because of something I did. Turns out everyone in the SEO community is feeling the “SEO Digg” effect. Which simply means digg will ban if you have anything to do with SEO. With me it took less than a week after I started this blog to get banned by digg, my only crime? Having seo in my url. Though digg won’t directly admit to this more and more information is coming out and there appears to be some kind of hate circle among digg’s moderators to bury anything SEO related.

Sure they could pick on small timers like me but they went too far when they banned toprank for what appears to be no reason at all. That’s when this story picked up momentum with other SEO websites admitting they were banned by digg too. Lee Odden, the owner of toprank, contacted the Digg executives about it and so far with no answer. In an email to David Utter by Lee explained who or how they were doing this:

Because someone or several people noticed several stories that concern SEO being submitted from our blog (not by me or my employees though) and certain influential Digg users that hate anything to do with SEO emailed spam complaints, dugg down a few recent stories and that was it.

The problem appears to be the way some SEO webmasters try to play digg to increase their websites’ awareness. But this shouldn’t lead to a whole subject turning into a taboo just because some people didn’t play by the rules. If this truly is a serious problem maybe implementing better security measures would be a better option, but no matter what having your SEO article reach the digg homepage only to be removed quickly by some digg moderators while some other digg that talks about tipping cows enjoys it’s stay, is just wrong.

This all comes down to what level of professionalism digg is willing to play at. It’s no secret that anything anti-digg will never even get two diggs and if does will see the website and user probably banned. Which leads to the question at whether digg is a free community controlled news network or just another carefully controlled media outlet.

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