Comments on: Digg Hits 750,000 Sock Puppets

By: » Digg: Is Kevin Rose on the level? | Digital Markets | ZDNet.com

» Digg: Is Kevin Rose on the level? | Digital Markets | ZDNet.com — Tue, 22 May 2007 22:36:28 +0000

[...] Rose made the million registered user announcement at the Digg blog today, and skepticism abounds about the reliability of the figure. SEO Black Hat: Everyone who uses Digg is spamming it by creating multiple “sock puppet” accounts. More than 10 are his (Arrington), and 10 belong to every other “white hat” who passively games Digg. How many serious spammers have more than 5 thousand accounts with bots creating real looking histories? it would be a hell of a lot more impressive if you told me you had 250,000 verified accounts – accounts that we knew tracked back to unique individuals. And no, verification emails to a freemail account don’t really count. [...]

By: - How Weird Are Marketers?

- How Weird Are Marketers? — Thu, 22 Mar 2007 15:29:52 +0000

[...] += start_div; social += ‘Newsvine | ’; social += end_div; social += start_div; social += ‘Fark | ’; social += end_div; document.writeln(social); 03/22/2007 08:29:14 (US MountainStandard Time, UTC-07:00) Affiliate Marketing | SEO | [...]

By: Industry Popularity Factors in Search Engine Ranking » SEO Image Blog: Stardate

Wed, 14 Mar 2007 02:20:32 +0000

[...] Just being able to gain reach to your industry through your industry is seen by search engines and calculated into the latest ranking algorithm. I mentioned initially in this article that social marketing factors come into play as those tend to be avenues to bring in Industry Popularity links. The term linkbaiting would fit here, smart link marketing is always the best approach, if you’re stumped or bored try something like sock puppets. [...]

By: rxbbx

rxbbx — Sat, 10 Mar 2007 16:01:08 +0000

“I went to Digg Headquarters”… as always quad styling.. greets

By: QuadsZilla

QuadsZilla — Fri, 09 Mar 2007 21:35:43 +0000

couple thousand sock puppets with no history is running about $300. But black hats have moved on to much better ways to spam digg.

By: VoIP Monitor Weekly News Roundup - VoIP Monitor

VoIP Monitor Weekly News Roundup - VoIP Monitor — Fri, 09 Mar 2007 20:54:56 +0000

[...] New VoIP Player launches and Paul Kapustka of GigaOM in MagicJack, Simpler VoIP than Skype? Skype made news this week as it tops 500 million downloads which reminded me of this post Digg Hits 750,000 Sock Puppets (Great image included). In other Skype news [...]

By: Kitten Fluff

Kitten Fluff — Fri, 09 Mar 2007 00:44:36 +0000

[...] youtube Friday March 09th 2007, 12:44 am Filed under: Uncategorized Loving this description on SEO Black Hat of accounts on Digg and the like (which has just announced “1 million users”). Describes multiple accounts created by one individual as “sock puppets”. [...]

By: ROIGuy

ROIGuy — Fri, 09 Mar 2007 00:13:51 +0000

What’s the going rate to get a couple thousand sock puppets digging a story, anyway?

By: matt sandy

matt sandy — Thu, 08 Mar 2007 20:21:42 +0000

I remember one time I had “everyone at work” register one, and then digg a story, needless to say a few sites got banned (the domain for the email adresses, the domain being dugg, and another). I wonder if these users included banned users?

By: keemo

keemo — Thu, 08 Mar 2007 19:43:55 +0000

Just absolutely hilarious