Comments on: The ‘blogroll is dead. Viva la citation! http://www.blahblahtech.com/2007/07/the-blogroll-is-dead-viva-la-citation.html Tech' views that are 667% more interesting than the tech' news itself... Fri, 25 Jul 2008 12:58:03 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6 By: Wayne Smallman http://www.blahblahtech.com/2007/07/the-blogroll-is-dead-viva-la-citation.html#comment-3023 Wayne Smallman Tue, 27 May 2008 14:25:07 +0000 http://sv2.mhlists.net/~wwwblah/index.php/2007/07/07/the-blogroll-is-dead-viva-la-citation/#comment-3023 Hi Colin, thanks for the comment! Yeah, the conventional thinking is that blogrolls are PageRank gold dust, but it's the exact opposite — they're almost completely ignored for the very reasons you suggest that makes them so strong. It's because they're repetitive and <em>global</em>, in terms of navigation, that the search engines really don't give much weight to them. That's one of the reasons I don't use a blogroll any more, because I'm not actually giving any value. Thanks again! Hi Colin, thanks for the comment!

Yeah, the conventional thinking is that blogrolls are PageRank gold dust, but it’s the exact opposite — they’re almost completely ignored for the very reasons you suggest that makes them so strong.

It’s because they’re repetitive and global, in terms of navigation, that the search engines really don’t give much weight to them.

That’s one of the reasons I don’t use a blogroll any more, because I’m not actually giving any value.

Thanks again!

]]> By: Colin http://www.blahblahtech.com/2007/07/the-blogroll-is-dead-viva-la-citation.html#comment-3021 Colin Tue, 27 May 2008 13:20:10 +0000 http://sv2.mhlists.net/~wwwblah/index.php/2007/07/07/the-blogroll-is-dead-viva-la-citation/#comment-3021 Good article. It's a tricky one... a blog-roll link carries a lot of search engine weight... because it is a link from not just one page, but potentially, 100s or even 1000s of pages. I guess the normal rules do still apply, if it isn't relavent, then it isn't overwhelmingly effective... and I guess yes the traffic won't follow either if it is just a random list... Niceone! Good article. It’s a tricky one… a blog-roll link carries a lot of search engine weight… because it is a link from not just one page, but potentially, 100s or even 1000s of pages. I guess the normal rules do still apply, if it isn’t relavent, then it isn’t overwhelmingly effective… and I guess yes the traffic won’t follow either if it is just a random list…
Niceone!

]]> By: David Bradley http://www.blahblahtech.com/2007/07/the-blogroll-is-dead-viva-la-citation.html#comment-1086 David Bradley Thu, 08 Nov 2007 15:04:26 +0000 http://sv2.mhlists.net/~wwwblah/index.php/2007/07/07/the-blogroll-is-dead-viva-la-citation/#comment-1086 Just spotted this post again...quite timely to see a headline that asserts the "blogroll is dead", as Google Reader just added functionality that allows one to export subscribed feeds as a blogroll, they're usually sooooo on the ball. db Just spotted this post again…quite timely to see a headline that asserts the “blogroll is dead”, as Google Reader just added functionality that allows one to export subscribed feeds as a blogroll, they’re usually sooooo on the ball.

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