Removing DiggBar From Your Website

by Bey Luen on April 18, 2009

in Social Bookmarking

Recently Digg has released new feature called DiggBar. It’s nothing special, just inserting a frame in your website with some features if your visitors are referred by Digg. I’m not a fan of it.

Removing DiggBar

The Problem

With a URL frame around content, there is no SEO benefit from promoting Digg. If you see carefully, the URL address is still pointing to digg.com instead of your website URL. Generally it also increases their traffic and reduces your traffic. I heard that they’re planning to have an ad tracker in the toolbar so they’re clearly planning on adding advertisements to your blog and website in the future.

The Solution

Don’t worry, there is a solution for this. You can simple add the following code to your website in the <head> section.

<script type="text/javascript">
if (top !== self) top.location.href = self.location.href;
</script>

If you’re using WordPress blog, then you no need touch the code. You can simply download the plugin written by me and activate it. The plugin is called Frame Free.

About the author: Bey Luen is an online entrepreneur living in Singapore. He is the founder and editor of BlogHighlight, a blog sharing SEO tips helping webmasters to increase website traffic. He is also the creator of Definitive WordPress SEO Guide. Get more from Bey Luen on Twitter.

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{ 4 comments… read them below or add one }

1 Superman April 18, 2009 at 2:32 am

Ic… great tips! My friends just asked me how to remove the thing 2 weeks ago and now I have the answer. :)

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2 ArcherTC April 19, 2009 at 9:45 am

Unfortunately, your Wordpress plugin breaks the normal function of Wordpress’ theme preview. Would love to hear of your fix because this plugin is very needed.

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3 Bey Luen April 19, 2009 at 11:35 am

@ArcherTC,
I’ve fixed the issue. Please download the latest version from WordPress.

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4 Kirkos Pavlos May 30, 2009 at 3:51 pm

Hey, what’s the point of your code? I inserted it and it blocks the diggbar. How can someone bookmark my site by blocking the bar?

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