Digg Implements the $1M Idea: non-www 301 Redirect
February 25, 2008
http://www.digg.com - check it out! The developers over at Digg have finally listened up to us SEOs that are so often hated on their site. Digg.com has enormous potential to gain traffic from search engines with all the constant flow of user-generated content. Until now they haven’t been able to fully take advantage of this as both http://www.digg.com and http://digg.com displayed in browsers. By taking full advantage of their link juice they should be able to eventually rank better for lots of broad and long-tail searches.
One problem though, they did the Web 2.0 non-www redirect to digg.com without the www, not the other (proper) way around. All their pages are currently indexed in Google with the both versions (click here and here) so expect the former to drop lots in pages indexed and traffic for a brief while. Not to fear though, with as any links as an authoritative social media site like this has, they should rebound quickly and the issue should sort itself out.
Here’s a few posts about the idea from a while back:
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If you do a site search for digg.com you’ll see that quite a few pages are listed as the non-www version including their home page. i wouldn’t expect to see any drop in rankings and certainly not for any length of time. They’ve got Google connections to take care of that kind of thing.