Framekiller: Remove DiggBar from your story links?
April 4th, 2009 Leave a comment Visited 201 times, 2 so far today
Framekiller: Remove DiggBar from your story links?
Framekiller is a simple technology that you can use on your website to remove the DiggBar.
Digg has just launched their DiggBar product which loads the third party website in an inline frame.
Digg.com no longer links to actual story links. Instead, all the stories are now loaded with DiggBar at the top.
This takes away any Google PageRank juice that you might be aiming to get by getting stories on Digg homepage. Not everyone is going to be amused with this latest move from Digg.
Update: Digg seems to be using JavaScript to manipulate the links on the stories. So, Google spiders might get direct links to the stories instead of the DiggBar links. So that is probably good news for the publishers who get their content on the Digg homepage.
If you do not like your stories to get listed around on the web with the DiggBar at the top, you can use Framekiller JavaScript code to force the user to load the actual webpage.
<script script type="text/javascript">
if(top.location != document.location)
top.location = document.location;
</script>
The New York Times website is already using such a code on their website. With Digg using inline frames, we believe a lot more sites would start using similar codes on their websites…
Checkout: Framekiller
Also read: How to Block the DiggBar
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April 6th, 2009 at 11:41 am
Thank you for the info.
In wordpress, we have to update the header.php file to put the script right?
April 8th, 2009 at 11:52 am
yeap. that would work great.
April 11th, 2009 at 12:27 am
The W3C validate tester says the first line should read in order to pass the test.
April 11th, 2009 at 12:29 am
The first line should be
script type=”text/javascript”
inside the angle brackets.