Comments on: State of blogging and some http://fresh-perspectives.net/2007/10/state-of-blogging-and-some.html Fresh Perspectives on blogging, social media and self improvement Sat, 05 Jul 2008 21:53:49 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 By: Find Page Rank of Every Page of Your Site | Interesting Observations http://fresh-perspectives.net/2007/10/state-of-blogging-and-some.html#comment-2611 Find Page Rank of Every Page of Your Site | Interesting Observations Tue, 06 Nov 2007 16:23:22 +0000 http://fresh-perspectives.net/2007/10/state-of-blogging-and-some.html#comment-2611 [...] State of blogging and some [...] [...] State of blogging and some [...]

]]> By: This was the Week that Was, Vol. 17 | Sephy's Platzish http://fresh-perspectives.net/2007/10/state-of-blogging-and-some.html#comment-2196 This was the Week that Was, Vol. 17 | Sephy's Platzish Mon, 15 Oct 2007 17:28:44 +0000 http://fresh-perspectives.net/2007/10/state-of-blogging-and-some.html#comment-2196 [...] Pearl gives her take, including quoting comments on Matt Cutts’ blog with State of blogging and some. [...] [...] Pearl gives her take, including quoting comments on Matt Cutts’ blog with State of blogging and some. [...]

]]> By: pearl http://fresh-perspectives.net/2007/10/state-of-blogging-and-some.html#comment-2178 pearl Sat, 13 Oct 2007 17:23:07 +0000 http://fresh-perspectives.net/2007/10/state-of-blogging-and-some.html#comment-2178 Even the group writing projects?? I just entered another one Mig... :) I think JC will still do alright, its the newer blogs who are still trying to find their way and haven't even gotten decent reader base or are known in the blogoshpere that are going to get a harder hit with google's strategy! Even the group writing projects?? I just entered another one Mig… :)

I think JC will still do alright, its the newer blogs who are still trying to find their way and haven’t even gotten decent reader base or are known in the blogoshpere that are going to get a harder hit with google’s strategy!

]]> By: Mihaela Lica http://fresh-perspectives.net/2007/10/state-of-blogging-and-some.html#comment-2166 Mihaela Lica Fri, 12 Oct 2007 14:12:57 +0000 http://fresh-perspectives.net/2007/10/state-of-blogging-and-some.html#comment-2166 Well, there is more to the debate than PageRank. It's the hunt for good placements in the SERPs that really triggers all the controversy. Buying links is not that bad, considering that Google itself is selling them, in the form of text link ads. It's Google's hypocrisy that really bothers me. Their own buggy algorithm causes all the problems. As long as the search engine rankings will be based on "link popularity" there will always be those who abuse the system. And when the fever goes, there will be something else to trigger the storm. Among all the linking strategies memes and group writing projects are not better, believe me. Because he got penalized John Chow is missing important Google traffic and he's missing potential readers too. And because, despite his aggressive linking campaigns, he is a good communicator and the content of the blog has a lot of good parts too, Google has done something not so politically correct, if you know what I mean. I'd call it censure. Well, there is more to the debate than PageRank. It’s the hunt for good placements in the SERPs that really triggers all the controversy.
Buying links is not that bad, considering that Google itself is selling them, in the form of text link ads. It’s Google’s hypocrisy that really bothers me. Their own buggy algorithm causes all the problems. As long as the search engine rankings will be based on “link popularity” there will always be those who abuse the system. And when the fever goes, there will be something else to trigger the storm.

Among all the linking strategies memes and group writing projects are not better, believe me.

Because he got penalized John Chow is missing important Google traffic and he’s missing potential readers too. And because, despite his aggressive linking campaigns, he is a good communicator and the content of the blog has a lot of good parts too, Google has done something not so politically correct, if you know what I mean. I’d call it censure.

]]> By: Should we drop the paid text links or not ? | Interesting Observations http://fresh-perspectives.net/2007/10/state-of-blogging-and-some.html#comment-2139 Should we drop the paid text links or not ? | Interesting Observations Thu, 11 Oct 2007 12:50:46 +0000 http://fresh-perspectives.net/2007/10/state-of-blogging-and-some.html#comment-2139 [...] as Pearl discussed in the last post that Google is acting hard on those web sites which are selling text-link ads and the advertisers are interested only in the page-rank and not the traffic.  Whole [...] [...] as Pearl discussed in the last post that Google is acting hard on those web sites which are selling text-link ads and the advertisers are interested only in the page-rank and not the traffic.  Whole [...]

]]> By: CHESSNOID http://fresh-perspectives.net/2007/10/state-of-blogging-and-some.html#comment-2136 CHESSNOID Thu, 11 Oct 2007 04:39:52 +0000 http://fresh-perspectives.net/2007/10/state-of-blogging-and-some.html#comment-2136 Your welcome Pearl. My friend is installing wood floors at his house and is half way done. It is looking real nice. Cheers! Your welcome Pearl. My friend is installing wood floors at his house and is half way done. It is looking real nice. Cheers!

]]> By: pearl http://fresh-perspectives.net/2007/10/state-of-blogging-and-some.html#comment-2131 pearl Wed, 10 Oct 2007 17:44:59 +0000 http://fresh-perspectives.net/2007/10/state-of-blogging-and-some.html#comment-2131 he Pelf... you know what? when I was writing, I did write that exact sentence and then sort of felt I shouldn't :) I agree with Slevi on this one, PR is turning out be just like Alexa, and the example sort of self explains, so there..... hey Slevi.. welcome to my blog btw and thanks for taking the time to comment... your example puts things in a clear and simple to understand manner.... hope theres a better way for the advertisers to make distinctions amongst good-quality blogs vs not-so-good-quality blogs!! the next post-galore should be "Alexa = #of visits, PR = # of links - which one should you aim for? ;)" he Pelf… you know what? when I was writing, I did write that exact sentence and then sort of felt I shouldn’t :)

I agree with Slevi on this one, PR is turning out be just like Alexa, and the example sort of self explains, so there…..

hey Slevi.. welcome to my blog btw and thanks for taking the time to comment… your example puts things in a clear and simple to understand manner…. hope theres a better way for the advertisers to make distinctions amongst good-quality blogs vs not-so-good-quality blogs!!

the next post-galore should be “Alexa = #of visits, PR = # of links - which one should you aim for? ;)”

]]> By: pearl http://fresh-perspectives.net/2007/10/state-of-blogging-and-some.html#comment-2130 pearl Wed, 10 Oct 2007 17:33:13 +0000 http://fresh-perspectives.net/2007/10/state-of-blogging-and-some.html#comment-2130 thank you Chessnoid... Im hoping the floors will come out nicer :) thank you Chessnoid… Im hoping the floors will come out nicer :)

]]> By: Slevi http://fresh-perspectives.net/2007/10/state-of-blogging-and-some.html#comment-2129 Slevi Wed, 10 Oct 2007 13:06:11 +0000 http://fresh-perspectives.net/2007/10/state-of-blogging-and-some.html#comment-2129 I like how the last comment makes a very valid point on the flaw of pagerank, it's not even so much for industrial sites only but also something like computer stores in example which you'd expect to be rated quite high. Well, it definitely doesn't have to be if the links going towards it are mainly in no-follow locations. In example when looking at a couple of bigger stores here there's a few which have a pagerank of 4~5 with alexa ranks ranging from 25k to about a million. But there's also others, of which one being pretty much being part of the 3 highest ratest computer stores within the country which just has a pagerank of 1. Along with that it has an Alexa ranking of around 120k so you'd expect a PR higher than 1 should be in place right? But it's just not there, even though in the many years they've been online they have gotten well over 50 million visits already quite some time ago, the PR is still lacking. The entire concept of PR is just more and more going to lose it's value, pretty much like Alexa. Alexa mainly is an indicator of the amount of people which have an alexa plugin installed, these days that's mainly the people with SearchStatus plugin for firefox dropping by on sites whilst PR is more and more becoming nothing more than a little popularity contest. Quality or visitors asides, just aim for dragging in those incoming links and even with just 100 visitors a day you might end up with a PR of 5. I like how the last comment makes a very valid point on the flaw of pagerank, it’s not even so much for industrial sites only but also something like computer stores in example which you’d expect to be rated quite high. Well, it definitely doesn’t have to be if the links going towards it are mainly in no-follow locations.

In example when looking at a couple of bigger stores here there’s a few which have a pagerank of 4~5 with alexa ranks ranging from 25k to about a million. But there’s also others, of which one being pretty much being part of the 3 highest ratest computer stores within the country which just has a pagerank of 1. Along with that it has an Alexa ranking of around 120k so you’d expect a PR higher than 1 should be in place right?

But it’s just not there, even though in the many years they’ve been online they have gotten well over 50 million visits already quite some time ago, the PR is still lacking.

The entire concept of PR is just more and more going to lose it’s value, pretty much like Alexa. Alexa mainly is an indicator of the amount of people which have an alexa plugin installed, these days that’s mainly the people with SearchStatus plugin for firefox dropping by on sites whilst PR is more and more becoming nothing more than a little popularity contest. Quality or visitors asides, just aim for dragging in those incoming links and even with just 100 visitors a day you might end up with a PR of 5.

]]> By: pelf http://fresh-perspectives.net/2007/10/state-of-blogging-and-some.html#comment-2126 pelf Wed, 10 Oct 2007 07:03:55 +0000 http://fresh-perspectives.net/2007/10/state-of-blogging-and-some.html#comment-2126 Aww.. From what I see, we bloggers complain and hypothesize that certain things may be causing our PR to drop, and a good example would be the "sponsored posts" and "text link ads". One the other hand, when we've gotten our PR raised, we would claim that it's the "content" and the "hard work we've put in". Do you realize that nobody ever said that "my PR increased because of all the sponsored posts I write"?? Just my humble 2 cents. Aww.. From what I see, we bloggers complain and hypothesize that certain things may be causing our PR to drop, and a good example would be the “sponsored posts” and “text link ads”.

One the other hand, when we’ve gotten our PR raised, we would claim that it’s the “content” and the “hard work we’ve put in”.

Do you realize that nobody ever said that “my PR increased because of all the sponsored posts I write”??

Just my humble 2 cents.

]]> By: CHESSNOID http://fresh-perspectives.net/2007/10/state-of-blogging-and-some.html#comment-2125 CHESSNOID Wed, 10 Oct 2007 06:33:22 +0000 http://fresh-perspectives.net/2007/10/state-of-blogging-and-some.html#comment-2125 Good post! I am like you and search in the archives of much more experienced bloggers to try to understand all these things like page rank and text ads, and a whole lot more other stuff. Good luck with your home improvement project. Cheers! ;) Good post! I am like you and search in the archives of much more experienced bloggers to try to understand all these things like page rank and text ads, and a whole lot more other stuff. Good luck with your home improvement project. Cheers!
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]]> By: Modeling » State of blogging and some http://fresh-perspectives.net/2007/10/state-of-blogging-and-some.html#comment-2124 Modeling » State of blogging and some Wed, 10 Oct 2007 06:15:19 +0000 http://fresh-perspectives.net/2007/10/state-of-blogging-and-some.html#comment-2124 [...] unknown wrote an interesting post today onHere’s a quick excerptI ask because I understand the problem text link advertising can cause a search engine but do believe that it is that same business model that has allowed G to become such a commercial success story. I know there are subtle differences … [...] [...] unknown wrote an interesting post today onHere’s a quick excerptI ask because I understand the problem text link advertising can cause a search engine but do believe that it is that same business model that has allowed G to become such a commercial success story. I know there are subtle differences … [...]

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