Getting noticed in a sea of endless chatter whilst avoiding the schizophrenic monster

robwatts — Sat, 31 May 2008 10:29:22 +0000

Hi David,

How are you doing?

I agree it can be a problem, good moderation is where it’s at, I accept that some people maybe too busy to moderate which I suppose makes nofollow an easy solution for the whole spam thing.

Personally, I wouldn’t want someone leaving a link to a PR0N blog or site. Nofollow in that sense just isn’t a solution really. The whole link spam thing was just a convenient thing for search engines to latch on to and address a need in their minds to make any kind of purchased or ‘non natural’ link (whatever the hell that might be exactly) be seen or painted as something wrong or heinous.

The old ‘why buy adwords when buying natural links is far more profitable’ scenario. They had to demonise link buying to protect their model.

Getting noticed in a sea of endless chatter whilst avoiding the schizophrenic monster

SEO Consultant - David Brett — Thu, 29 May 2008 15:19:09 +0000

Hello Rob
Blogging and blog commenting is a great social media that’s true and of course a great way for tagging through blog commenting, but with an ever growing army of unethical blog spammers this is becoming a real issue. For anyone who owns a blog they should make sure all the comments are moderated by an administrator and if they are unable to do this make sure they add the no follow tag to stop spammers adding utter garbage and ruining it for every one.

Getting noticed in a sea of endless chatter whilst avoiding the schizophrenic monster

David — Sat, 03 May 2008 17:25:52 +0000

Blogging is a very good way of meeting other surfers with similar interests, its also one of the only ways to communicate across the net, computers are a good tool, but it can make people live in there own little bubbles without the need for real social stimulation. Any social site or blog that makes net users interact with others is ok by me.
UKGent

Getting noticed in a sea of endless chatter whilst avoiding the schizophrenic monster

Reggie von Zugbach — Mon, 18 Feb 2008 13:13:39 +0000

This was all news to me and very well explained. Thank you.

Getting noticed in a sea of endless chatter whilst avoiding the schizophrenic monster

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Getting noticed in a sea of endless chatter whilst avoiding the schizophrenic monster

robwatts — Fri, 28 Sep 2007 07:50:34 +0000

Hi Shane

Yes relevance is very subjective. Words alone can’t really cut it. Too many pages fit the glove and thats where it all tends to fall down, especially when viewed from some authority algo perspective.

I must say though that here (lack of authority perhaps) I dont get too many off topic referals. if you take a look at http://www.johnon.com/403/amazing-seattle-hotels.html you’ll see how an unrelated theme can instantly attain a #1 spot in a non related SERP.

Getting noticed in a sea of endless chatter whilst avoiding the schizophrenic monster

Shane — Fri, 28 Sep 2007 05:56:40 +0000

Hey Rob,

Schizophrenic is the word. I think “relevance” is something that’s really hard for the engines to pin down these days. There’s just so much info out there. I get some steady traffic to Zoomstart for some really odd stuff … not at all relevant to the overall theme. And not the kind of traffic that’s going to stick around or come back again and again.

And of course, at some point, the engines have to work profitability into their algo too.

Getting noticed in a sea of endless chatter whilst avoiding the schizophrenic monster

robwatts — Thu, 27 Sep 2007 15:10:55 +0000

Neil I don’t mind sharing how it’s done, the principles are broad – the answers are all there to be observed in whatever SERP you’d care to view. I agree too with your premis that posting golden secrets mightn’t be the wisest of things to do either (unless you have pots already and you don’t care for much perhaps).

Those of us who want the traffic and like to talk about how to get it always walk a thin line, especially if we have an abrasive style and wish to paint ourselves as some swashbuckling algo deconstructor.

The search engineers would argue; and would like the greater public to believe, that it is they and they alone who decide what page gets returned and why. I guess I was trying to say in my somewhat creatively monstrous way was you simply have to respect the power of the ~~ogres~~ people who have the ability to remove your ability to rank. By waving a red rag in their face you end up exposing your position, if you want the rankings then this obviously isn’t too wise

Heh, I feel like I’m stating a lot of obviouses today!

Hi Robyn, hope you enjoyed my lickle meander