How to break the DiggBar

Recently, digg.com added a new feature called the “DiggBar”.

It frames your page and auto-generates a short url for your content. The issue many people have with this is that the user never leaves the Digg website, which is bad for SEO. This is because:

• Users will most likely link to the shortened Digg URL, and not your site
• Even when a user clicks on your links, it still seems like it is part of digg, not a separate, external link.
• Eventually, they could place advertising on this toolbar, competing against any ads on your page

Recently, because of many criticisms, Digg has changed the behavior of the bar (taken from the Digg blog):

1. New treatment to the behavior of Digg short URLs. All anonymous users, on or off Digg will be taken directly to the publishers content via a permanent redirect (301), no toolbar, straight to the site. Logged in users that have not opted out will continue to see the DiggBar (200). These changes ensure that content providers receive full search engine ‘juice’ or credit for all links on and off Digg. They also ensure that Digg short URLs won’t appear in the indexes of any major search engines.

2. Because we want to ensure the best user experience, the DiggBar will soon only be shown to you when you are logged into Digg. While the vast majority of Digg users find the DiggBar valuable (only a very small number of users have disabled the feature or hit close with any frequency) we understand that many folks were confused when opting out. We want you to be able to have the option to permanently disable the DiggBar with ease. For registered Digg users receiving the bar, we are also making a few changes to make the process more obvious.

However, people can still get to your content through their service if they are logged into their account when viewing.

The following code will remove the DiggBar (and auto-redirect to your actual content) the user to the actual link. To use, place in the header of your website. It will also prevent other sites from displaying your content in an iframe.