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A Monday morning rant
I love Google as much as the next guy or maybe more than most
Not only the search engine and many apps and services I play with, but I also enjoy how the engineers think (Patent hound here ya know)
but the whole link FUD has finally started to irk me.
I have yet to write about the nofollow fiasco
today it changes.
Are we simply a gutless bunch of weenies under the spell of the mighty G? Methinks its true.
Matt McGee is a guy I enjoy reading and have respected for some time
and still do. BUT this morning I noticed a post of his that was thanking some advertisers and highlighting some of there posts. He not only nofollowed the links to some of their recent posts, but felt he had to state that they were nofollowed. Good lord, is this what weve come to?
Eat my shorts
Over the last while I have had guest posters here and recently gave some thanks by not only highlighting their posts, but also showing a little link love for folks to go and read some of their other greatness. Now, while they didnt pay for those links, nor the ones in their Bio on the posts
one could surmise in the unspoken rules of the game that they in some small measure did barter for them
which could be construed as bad Ju Ju by the fine folks at Google
. Oh I am such a baaaad boy. Shouldnt all media outlets and article repositories/directories be whacked? We all know it is a veiled method for obtaining links not traffic, right?
I truly felt that the whole nofollow gag was about people that were actually selling text links to peeps for the expressed purpose of manipulating PageRank, or for every link that one worried about getting in trouble for (or for potentially shady neighbourhoods).
I am pretty sure Matt never offered links as part of the advertising package which means he should be free to highlight them as he pleases
but oooooo nooo
. Look out here comes the Google SERP Police, best be careful.
It is a sad statement on the times
Its a damned funny preposition really if we think about it. At its core Google is a nodal/link based algorithm that depends largely on the links of the web to establish popularity and to a certain degree, value. Now, what if
. by some strange twist of fate, the majority of the worlds webmasters and site owners decided to Nofollow all of their outbound links in a sort of, better safe than sorry manoeuvre?
Can you imagine the mess that would make? He he
I dare say, to a certain degree it would make a helluva mess in the SERPs and ultimately cause them to rethink the ranking processes
. Bah humbug, bitter and disillusioned on a Monday morning
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Comments
So, no karma to give, but how about a couple of smileys instead?
:woohoo:
'Matt McGee sells text links to advertisers'
.... sad times they are...
Then again, it was just links, no real reader value, and less likely to be picked up by splogs due to lack of content.
To be honest it was one of those, 'written in 10 minutes' posts from my morning read... It just seems that such disclaimers, more for search engines and whiny bloggers, not the end user, are such a statement of the times.
Nice thinking on the Splogs tho' - but it's not like links pointing TO YOU can hurt right? cough cough....
I am so hopeful for layers beyond PR having strong enough signals to stop the madness.....
So, I hear ya, it just made me a little sad when I noticed it as they were actually legit posts and I have no probs 'voting' for those that support me.... my link vote that is.
It is simply interesting the kettle we are stewing in here 2008.... sigh....
I wasn't inferring anything bad towards Matt - merely that it was a glaring statement of the times that would have been unthinkable a few years ago.
The lines from a mere tool for protecting oneself when linking out, to the smack down and now near paranoia.
Guilty until proven innocent? Do we need to STATE that links are nofollowed or that we don't sell them? I thought it was about NOT advertising the sale of links for the expressed purpose of SE manipulation?
He never said he was selling text link ADVERTISING for that purpose so how would he be guilty of anything? Instead one must use a pre-emptive approach.... it all was just a little troubling....
...today is a new day and I am being mellow.... no ranting :whistle:
To be honest, so often it is the band wagon effect that stops me from writing about many things and for the longest time I have said little about this.... it just get's a little thin...
As a patent hound I am very aware of the many ways search engineers attempt to break their addiction to links, so I do have hope for that, it just seems to have gone too far on the FUD end of things.
Like I said, if too large a segment of the web start to pre-empt by nofollowing anything, it would actually damage the PageRank model theoretically....
Between the FUD and PR 'Sculpting' the lines are getting very hazy.... forget updating what a doorway page is, let's get some more clarity on the whole nofollow/paid links gag once and for all....
.... anyways, it is really leaving a bad taste in my mouth and I may not be renewing my 'Google-fan-boy' subscription this year... :Pinch:
I do think although that some boundaries and restrictions are needed for those spamming losers but there becomes a point when it hurts everyone, so screw all those spamming freaks that made this happen in the first place.
I am certainly one that hopes that other relevancy signals will soon lessen the link addiction the web world has. This is really not just a Google problem mind you as all of the big 3 rely greatly upon them.
*sigh*
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