No follow: one year on

Contents:

Blogs and links
Blogs knee-capped
The Blog Evolution
Blog Spam
Nofollow - one year on

Blogs and links
Bloggers have traditionally seen themselves as a community experience.
A blogger would comment on a topic, and a string of other bloggers would give it coverage. Great.
An issue developed: the use of trackback and comment links created a massive linking platform.
Blogs could rank very […]

Blogs vs forums

Let’s cut to the chase - blogs as a community medium are over-rated - if it’s community you want to see online, no blog can match the massive readership influence that online forums have.
If blogs are like newspaper columns, then forums are entire newspapers unto themselves.
Even “A-list” bloggers such as John Battelle, Jeremy Zawodny, Robert […]

Shoemoney

There are a lot of big names out there who have proven themselves over the years on the internet as people who know how to do business.
A number of “names” in SEO are listed in my blog roll, to the right - they’re people really worth listening to because they really do know what […]

SQL vs gz backups

Damn. A couple of my sites were moved by a webhost recently across their servers. Visiting today for some routine template work shows that at least two of the sites are pretty screwed. Looks like the databases didn’t carry over very well.
That’s no problem - I’m a diligent webmaster - I make regular backups of […]

Too much time on their hands

So a thread at Digitalpoint went into “firestorm” mode, when one of the moderators was accused of running a series of scraper sites - by someone else who runs their own network of scraper sites.
What’s a scraper site? Simply put, sites created solely with the aim of using content copied from other sites (either directory […]

Seth, truth, and marketing

Seth, turn your comments on if you want to be part of the conversation.
Doesn’t New Marketing have communication at it’s core?
Yet why does New Marketing evangelist Seth Godin have his comments turned off on his blog?
Does this mean that he doesn’t want to be part of a dialogue?
A while back I had to […]

MSN Search interested in Zipfian distribution

The Longtail blog covers a recent discussion with an ex-Microsoft manager - and shows that MSN Search has an interest in Zipfian distribution.
Basically, we’re talking about the longtail of search, but the ex-employee describes it in simpler terms here:

As you know, search engine query logs have a Zipfian distribution (Rank * Frequency = Constant). […]