The DiggBar Content Theft? ()Ĭopies StumbleUpon, Reddit with the DiggBar () In my view URL shorteners are just plain evil. They add an extra unnecessary layer on the web.Ĭonspiracy Theory or Brave New World for Digg ()įor You, Really Good For Us () This can result in a lower pagerank as Google will not see the link from “Site X” to “Site Y” but instead from to “Site Y”. Also DiggBar and Ow.ly responds with a frameset (200 http status code) instead of a redirect (301 http status code). DiggBar is already “stealing” link-juice by having a digg-shortened link on Delicious instead of the original url. The problem for site owners is that they have no control over how these services will change. Custom branded URL Suspend scheduled posts Content Curation Content apps Message approvals Content library Campaign Management Campaign planning Campaign tagging and reporting Monitoring & Engaging Monitor incoming messages Social Inbox Team assignments Message tagging Ads Post boosting 500.00 2,000. Ow.ly is also now doing this (unsure if this feature is new to this service). With this awesome URL shortener, you can easily shorten links and measure traffic. This service unlike most other url shortener services wraps the actual landing page in a frame and adds a top-frame bar with Digg information. Owly is a link shortener that is integrated into the Hootsuite platform. Expect to see URL shortener services changing their tactics: Digg launched their already much hated DiggBar last week. If you register or become a paid subscriber, you can have non-expiring links and edit URLs later. Like TinyURL, you can also customize the slug.
Also any developer can create such a service in less than an hour making the barriers of entry for this service extremely low. Tiny.CC is another free link shortener that allows you to create temporary short links by simply pasting your long link into a text box and pressing Shorten. The question of trust in this regard is especially important because these services has no working business model.