Why domain authority and trust is not to be trusted http://www.yackyack.co.uk/domain-trust/why-domain-authority-and-trust-is-not-to-be-trusted/ A Blog about Search and Online Fri, 05 Feb 2010 06:17:20 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 hourly 1 Why domain authority and trust is not to be trusted http://www.yackyack.co.uk/domain-trust/why-domain-authority-and-trust-is-not-to-be-trusted/comment-page-1/#comment-9943 Jewels Manora Wed, 30 Apr 2008 20:24:22 +0000 http://www.yackyack.co.uk/domain-trust/why-domain-authority-and-trust-is-not-to-be-trusted/#comment-9943 @Ned, You've got a super point about all this. The social sites are, many times, living off the work of others. They grow because of what they harvest from middle men submitters. SEs grow from the content snippets they harvest from spiders. But the Social sites often promote steal content just to get top on there sites. @Ned,

You’ve got a super point about all this. The social sites are, many times, living off the work of others. They grow because of what they harvest from middle men submitters. SEs grow from the content snippets they harvest from spiders. But the Social sites often promote steal content just to get top on there sites.

]]> Why domain authority and trust is not to be trusted http://www.yackyack.co.uk/domain-trust/why-domain-authority-and-trust-is-not-to-be-trusted/comment-page-1/#comment-9917 Ned Carey Tue, 15 Apr 2008 15:03:03 +0000 http://www.yackyack.co.uk/domain-trust/why-domain-authority-and-trust-is-not-to-be-trusted/#comment-9917 It is frustrating to see links from social networking sites to my site listed in Googles search LONG before my actual blog listing. I just recently learned that Blog Catalog uses a no follow attribute so I get NO search enging help by being listed there. It is frustrating to see links from social networking sites to my site listed in Googles search LONG before my actual blog listing. I just recently learned that Blog Catalog uses a no follow attribute so I get NO search enging help by being listed there.

]]> Why domain authority and trust is not to be trusted http://www.yackyack.co.uk/domain-trust/why-domain-authority-and-trust-is-not-to-be-trusted/comment-page-1/#comment-9598 fasteddie Mon, 25 Feb 2008 10:43:43 +0000 http://www.yackyack.co.uk/domain-trust/why-domain-authority-and-trust-is-not-to-be-trusted/#comment-9598 I see this all over the SERPS, but it does work both ways. Although all our content is orginal, we do repurpose it from time to time across our other sites. Often I see instances where we appear twice in the first page of results. Obviously it works the other way as well. It can be quite demoralising to see your hard work scraped and republished several hundred times if you dig through the serps. I see this all over the SERPS, but it does work both ways. Although all our content is orginal, we do repurpose it from time to time across our other sites. Often I see instances where we appear twice in the first page of results.

Obviously it works the other way as well. It can be quite demoralising to see your hard work scraped and republished several hundred times if you dig through the serps.

]]> Why domain authority and trust is not to be trusted http://www.yackyack.co.uk/domain-trust/why-domain-authority-and-trust-is-not-to-be-trusted/comment-page-1/#comment-9581 robwatts Sat, 23 Feb 2008 19:10:20 +0000 http://www.yackyack.co.uk/domain-trust/why-domain-authority-and-trust-is-not-to-be-trusted/#comment-9581 It is indeed Jayson. Some people publish feed snippets which might go some way to preventing some of the above, yet to do so, might well alienate a subscriber or 2 in a feedreader. You cant really win. Even if you preface and end an article or embed a link to a post of your own in the centre somewhere, a determined spammer can strip all of that stuff out in a heartbeat and reformat it to their own (MFA?) ends. I think that generally the pros outweigh the cons, until that is you perhaps start to see your stuff lose its ranking ability, at which point it'd be time to start shouting the odds to the various SE's representatives. It is indeed Jayson. Some people publish feed snippets which might go some way to preventing some of the above, yet to do so, might well alienate a subscriber or 2 in a feedreader. You cant really win.

Even if you preface and end an article or embed a link to a post of your own in the centre somewhere, a determined spammer can strip all of that stuff out in a heartbeat and reformat it to their own (MFA?) ends.

I think that generally the pros outweigh the cons, until that is you perhaps start to see your stuff lose its ranking ability, at which point it’d be time to start shouting the odds to the various SE’s representatives.

]]> Why domain authority and trust is not to be trusted http://www.yackyack.co.uk/domain-trust/why-domain-authority-and-trust-is-not-to-be-trusted/comment-page-1/#comment-9580 Jayson Sat, 23 Feb 2008 18:46:36 +0000 http://www.yackyack.co.uk/domain-trust/why-domain-authority-and-trust-is-not-to-be-trusted/#comment-9580 Yeah we've seen this as well - in fact, when we started a website of ours about 7 months ago we used content from other websites so that our visitors had something to look at. Today, for one article that I've checked on, we rank better by 1 (last I checked) even though at the top & bottom of the article on our site it clearly says where the article came from and who wrote it. This conversation is endlessly discussed in SEO forums and I usually see few people that agree on anything about it. I guess you could start out your articles with We at Blank and end them with This was another great article brought to you by Blank - I doubt it would help with SERPs Yeah we’ve seen this as well – in fact, when we started a website of ours about 7 months ago we used content from other websites so that our visitors had something to look at. Today, for one article that I’ve checked on, we rank better by 1 (last I checked) even though at the top & bottom of the article on our site it clearly says where the article came from and who wrote it.

This conversation is endlessly discussed in SEO forums and I usually see few people that agree on anything about it. I guess you could start out your articles with We at Blank and end them with This was another great article brought to you by Blank – I doubt it would help with SERPs

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