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Posted by: ck 2 years agoGood info from Neophile: "I've been asked how I handle URLs on sites like Digg and Netscape. The URLs you choose to submit actually make quite a difference. Their uniqueness plays a big factor in getting promoted to the front page."
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capn_caveman
Aug. 15, 2006, 12:42 p.m.Yes, good information for those of us who use RSS - a lot of sites tag URLs with RSS query strings. I've been stripping query strings from URLs for a while and it has definitely helped with cutting down duplicate submissions on my part!
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coreyspring
Aug. 15, 2006, 12:51 p.m.I think it's good that Netscape also checks to see if the title of your story has been submitted. Many people leave the original headline and it comes up by default anyway, so I think that helps a lot in finding dupes.
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Neophile
Aug. 15, 2006, 12:53 p.m.I agree Corey, and the tag/title searching they do during the preview is a step in the right direction too. Now if only they could go a step further and sniff the content and compare it other content (i know, extremely resource intensive, just blue-skying here).
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maverickattack
Aug. 15, 2006, 8:16 p.m.I think another factor is submitting truly unique content that you won't find on a CNN site - you can't go wrong there.
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