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Dave Naffziger of Judy's Book did some testing and found three of Alexa's top ten sites were website non grata at Digg, with 183 sites banned in total. It's no surprise that SEO-related blogs and websites made Naffziger's list of sites banned by Digg. WebProNews readers have known about the problems faced by Lee Odden and his TopRankBlog, among others. Digg's hatred of SEO has been manifested in numerous SEO bannings, not all of them undeserved, either. Who or what has been banned had been a mystery, until Naffziger brought out the magic Sherlock Holmes magnifying glass and took a look. He posted his results after testing the top 10,000 Alexa sites and top 1,000 Blogshares blogs to see what would happen. Along with several sites categorized as SEO, Naffziger found websites and blogs banned by Digg fell into three other categories:

User Generated Content sites without subdomains. One bad actor on these sites can ruin it for everyone. Popular UGC sites like Myspace, Squidoo, 43Things, Geocities are all banned, whereas sites like Typepad, Blogspot, Wordpress do just fine because it is easy to ban one bad actor. If I were Seth Godin, I’d give Squidoo lenses their own subdomains pronto - there is good content on Squidoo that will never see the light of Digg. International Sites, particularly Asian sites (Baidu, Sohu, Sina, Yandex, etc.). I can’t speak to the quality of these sites, but four of them are in Alexa’s top 20 and others are very popular. Digg and Digg users would certainly benefit from international versions of its site. (Hint, follow the Google model, not the Yahoo model). Scummy sites. There are plenty of sites here that I’m not surprised to find banned. Gossip Sites (perezhilton), Adult-themed sites (pornotube), adware/spyware sites (smileycentral), etc.

Baidu, MySpace, and Sina.com.cn all rate in Alexa's top ten. The three are at the top of the Digg banned list Naffziger composed as well. Despite Digg having an Entertainment category, several notable gossip sites have been denied the Digg love: PerezHilton, The Superficial, I Don't Like You In That Way, and Defamer. Maybe Kevin Rose wants to keep his Britney head-shaving news pure? --- Tag: Add to Del.icio.us | Digg | Reddit | Furl Bookmark WebProNews: