Digg This!

I have “Digg This!” links that appear on every podcast entry on the GaragePunk.com blog. These are added automatically through my FeedBurner feed. They work great for adding these podcast entries to Digg, but there’s a problem with that. You see, I already have my podcast registered on the Digg Podcast Directory, so I was hoping that, by adding the “Digg This!” link on my podcast posts, when people clicked them they would add diggs to those podcast entries that already exist on Digg’s Podcast Directory (which get added there automatically via the RSS feed). The problem is, when someone diggs one of those posts from my site, instead of Digg automatically finding the other entry for this podcast on its Podcast Directory, it instead insists upon adding the item as a separate story. The next page after that (“Are You Sure It’s Not a Duplicate?”) may give you some possible duplicates, but none of them happen to be the very same post found in the Podcast Directory!

When someone diggs a podcast post from the source site, Digg should be able to find and match that up with the podcast post already on its directory instead of creating a new “news” item for it, should it not? How else would people be able to digg items in their Podcast Directory?

Feel free to try this out for yourselves to see what I mean:

Here’s the URL of my last show as it appears in Digg’s podcast section:
http://digg.com/podcasts/GaragePunk_Podcast/679314

And here is the URL of the news item that Digg created separately for the very same item:
http://digg.com/music/Savage_Kick_43

Any help from Digg on fixing this issue would be greatly appreciated! Please CLICK HERE to digg this article!

Thanks,
kopper
GaragePunk.com