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DiggBar Keeps All Digg Homepage Traffic On Digg
TechCrunch — ... , the new shortURL and toolbar service from Digg, is certainly useful. I expect it to become my default short URL service on Twitter since it is so easy to create a short URL by simply adding Digg.com/ in front of any URL. It will redirect to a short Digg URL like digg.com/d1npNz, which is this story rendered with the DiggBar (click that Digg button!). ...

Does the DiggBar Steal or Inflate Your Traffic?
WebProNews Feed — ... Mike Arrington at TechCrunch notes, "For most purposes those sites won’t care. The page is still rendered and includes the advertising. The way most internal analytics software works means that page views will still be counted. But some services, like Comscore, won’t necessarily see the visit to the site, and will penalize the domain name." ...

DiggBar Pages and Google
Google Blogoscoped — ... Digg recently released a feature that frames all pages linked from Digg. Instead of linking straight to the URL of a story, they’re linking to something like http://digg.com/d1npNz, and then embed an Iframe which contains the original page. This move is already much hated by many, with some people including ...