Something For Everyone: Buffy, Paid Links, PageRank, and Hakia
Important things first! Joss Whedon, who surely you all know of Buffy fame, is gearing up to do a new show with Eliza Dushku on Fox! Eliza, of course, played Faith the kick ass vampire slayer on Buffy and if you’re saying wasn’t Buffy the slayer then yes, it’s confusing. I’ll loan you the DVDs. Or just come over to Buffy night on Tuesdays. It’ll all make sense. Anyway, this is fantastic news for sci fi fans and Buffy fans and really, anyone who’s a fan of good TV. You do like good TV don’t you?
In other news, I’ve teamed up with my twin potato fan, Greg Niland, for what was previously his show (and now is MY show, er, I mean our show, no evil laugh here, nu uh), GoodKarma, on Webmaster Radio. We’ll do the show live at the same time the show has always aired — Thursdays at 1pm Pacific, and we did the first one today. Check it out if you want to hear us ramble, I mean provide insightful commentary, on the recent very tiny (you may not have even heard of it it was so small) Google paid links controversy, the PageRank deductions, and how I feel about going from a PR 7 to a PR 6. (Toolbar PageRank means nothing! No one should even look at it! But why did I have to go down? *SOB!*) On the plus side, it’s hard to even see that diminishing green bar through the tears.
And in even more news, writing at Search Engine Land continues. Despite my mockery of Hakia’s musical efforts (but the mockery was all in good fun! I love that CD actually. How can you get any better than songs about search?), they let me into their offices a couple of weeks ago when I was in NY for SMX Social Media and we talked natural language processing and semantic indexing and social networking through search.
Told you there was something for everyone. What more could you want than Buffy, PageRank rants, and search? Well, maybe a robot butler who brings you coffee in the mornings.
Vanessa | buffy, seo, social networking
I enjoyed YOUR show, and yes some of us read the whole post!
Do you think you could have been hurt (if you want to call it that) because of your Links page having a number of outbound links all on one page? Googlebot would probably think it is a paid links page (eventhough it isn’t). Maybe if you integrated those links throughout your blog you wouldn’t have this ‘penalty’ (if you want to call it that).
Or . . . just don’t worry about it.
Off topic question, I have never seen an SEO discuss how to link to your own site’s homepage but I see all of the major SEOs linking via the full URL or via a slash versus the standard index.html, index.aspx, etc. This makes total sense (removes a form of duplicate content and consolidates inbound link juice) but why isn’t it underscored when 301s, duplicate content, etc. are discussed? Maybe this is a good suggestion for a post.
SearchCap: The Day In Search, November 2, 2007…
Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web…….
*** I have never seen an SEO discuss how to link to your own site’s homepage ***
I have covered that topic via a number of forums multiple times in the last 4 or 5 years.
I see it as a regular topic of conversation in many places. Still not enough coverage though.
One day, the robots will rise up in rebellion. As such, there is no way I would trust one with as vital a role as making my coffee.
Such a good point.
g1smd,
Could you, or any reader, point me to an article by a known authority. That discusses using a slash or a domain only think to a site’s homepage. I need justification to get the OneCall links changed.
Thanks!!!
how does google detect a paid links page?
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Sweeeet! I am ashamed I didn’t know about Joss’s latest plans but totally pumped. The tube has been sorely lacking Jossness for too long. Thanks for the great news Vanessa you brightened my day