Can the power of blogs remove ranking restraints? http://www.yackyack.co.uk/seo/can-the-power-of-blogs-remove-ranking-restraints/ A Search Marketing Blog Mon, 31 Oct 2011 14:09:55 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3 Can the power of blogs remove ranking restraints? http://www.yackyack.co.uk/seo/can-the-power-of-blogs-remove-ranking-restraints/comment-page-1/#comment-1766 HOBO SEO Thu, 10 May 2007 01:07:22 +0000 http://www.yackyack.co.uk/2007/04/19/can-the-power-of-blogs-remove-ranking-restraints/#comment-1766 Some sound thinking which I agree with. Just a few nerves because this is a recent change at our site, to remove nofollow etc and try and participate a bit more on other sites and make a few pals. Some sound thinking which I agree with. Just a few nerves because this is a recent change at our site, to remove nofollow etc and try and participate a bit more on other sites and make a few pals.

]]> Can the power of blogs remove ranking restraints? http://www.yackyack.co.uk/seo/can-the-power-of-blogs-remove-ranking-restraints/comment-page-1/#comment-1748 robwatts Tue, 08 May 2007 19:26:25 +0000 http://www.yackyack.co.uk/2007/04/19/can-the-power-of-blogs-remove-ranking-restraints/#comment-1748 Hello Hobo SEO For the record, it is my belief that the -31 penalty is very real indeed. Manually or algorithmically applied..therin lies the question. In terms of your other question regarding linking to bad neighbourhoods...If I didn't know me? Perhaps, yes I might, but if I participated then I'd at least check back and see what they were up to in any case. I'd also take a little time to look at the domain and page too before I engaged in such a project. Fact is though, all we can do in this life is choose to either trust or not trust what a person says. I wouldn't expect anybody to link to anything I wouldn't be prepared to link to myself. People can take me or leave me on that statement. In terms of the whole linking to untrustworthy stuff... as you know, sites rise and fall, things change ownership online as they do in the offline world too. In this regard, one would like to think that a SE would at least try to protect itself from accusations of being blatantly outrageous or unfair. IMO and Im sure the opinions of a lot of others, to penalise a site or lump it in as being part of some untrustworthy network and as a consequence remove its ranking power, purely on the basis of a legacy link or two would be verging on the unreasonable, so by and large I think its a bit of fluff and nonsense. Can you imagine, in say a year or two, people who have commented here who I have linked to have suddenley either sold out to a spammer or just gone to the dark side and decided to engage in errant behaviour like install trojans on their pages or something similarly nefarious - only for my domain to be penalised as a result... Sites change hands at a rate of knots, it would be both unfair to penalise and practically impossible to police legacy onsite links making any rigid management of either scenario practically impossible. IMHO of course :D Hello Hobo SEO

For the record, it is my belief that the -31 penalty is very real indeed. Manually or algorithmically applied..therin lies the question.

In terms of your other question regarding linking to bad neighbourhoods…If I didn’t know me? Perhaps, yes I might, but if I participated then I’d at least check back and see what they were up to in any case. I’d also take a little time to look at the domain and page too before I engaged in such a project.

Fact is though, all we can do in this life is choose to either trust or not trust what a person says. I wouldn’t expect anybody to link to anything I wouldn’t be prepared to link to myself. People can take me or leave me on that statement.

In terms of the whole linking to untrustworthy stuff… as you know, sites rise and fall, things change ownership online as they do in the offline world too.

In this regard, one would like to think that a SE would at least try to protect itself from accusations of being blatantly outrageous or unfair. IMO and Im sure the opinions of a lot of others, to penalise a site or lump it in as being part of some untrustworthy network and as a consequence remove its ranking power, purely on the basis of a legacy link or two would be verging on the unreasonable, so by and large I think its a bit of fluff and nonsense. Can you imagine, in say a year or two, people who have commented here who I have linked to have suddenley either sold out to a spammer or just gone to the dark side and decided to engage in errant behaviour like install trojans on their pages or something similarly nefarious – only for my domain to be penalised as a result…

Sites change hands at a rate of knots, it would be both unfair to penalise and practically impossible to police legacy onsite links making any rigid management of either scenario practically impossible.

IMHO of course :D

]]> Can the power of blogs remove ranking restraints? http://www.yackyack.co.uk/seo/can-the-power-of-blogs-remove-ranking-restraints/comment-page-1/#comment-1747 HOBO SEO Tue, 08 May 2007 18:45:14 +0000 http://www.yackyack.co.uk/2007/04/19/can-the-power-of-blogs-remove-ranking-restraints/#comment-1747 If you did this would you worry about linking to "untrustworthy" websites who may be participating in buying links etc and therefore become part of a network which MAY be experiencing such penalties as the -32 (if indeed there is such a thing?) If you did this would you worry about linking to “untrustworthy” websites who may be participating in buying links etc and therefore become part of a network which MAY be experiencing such penalties as the -32 (if indeed there is such a thing?)

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