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“Die Digg-Bar Die, Die! (or Should You Kill the Digg Bar on Your Website)” – It took about 10 days from completion for SEOmoz to publish this post. In the meantime Digg altered the behaviour of the Digg-bar to be a little better for SEO.

Using rev=”canonical” to indicate a short URL for a canonical resource. Links, implementation details, WP plugins, etc..

Frame Breaker WP plugin – here’s the WP plugin to break your site out of frame wrappers, it will remove your website from the frames of the Digg bar, Facebook, Ow.ly, etc.

Let people visit your site rather than be hijacked by Digg? Here’s how. All Digg links now are served within an IFRAME this code breaks out of the frames and leaves only your site there.

This is something I’ve been seeing a lot recently so I checked with the docs before claiming to know the canonical position.
Adding a trailing slash to domain addresses
If you’re linking to the example.com domain, what do you put in your link anchors href? You should put href=”http://www.example.com/” and not href=”http://www.example.com“. Why?

My review of CSS image replacement lead me to this CSS image replacement method, JIR, which uses CSS2 :before to insert a replacement image for a header. It allows transparent images, displays a header with CSS and/or image off, uses proper semantic code with no extra elements, presents text to search engines, is easy to do, doesn’t need any assistive technology .. but there’s a nice surprise, and it’s not totally what I expected.