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Originally Posted by AVC
Trusted links should carry a lot of weight with Google and they do, I had a well known influential technology executive link to one of my forums and we rank for that term based on the keywords he used in his anchor text, and that is just from one quality trusted link.
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What makes them trusted in the first place? Links? Power/influence? Size? Money? Marketshare? The information they provide? If it's the information then why weight links in the first place?
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Originally Posted by AVC
It is all about the profile Google builds not only on the website linking to you, but now Google is building profiles on webmasters also, so try to keep this in mind, that all your sites and your trail on the web is quite important, your name means a lot and your history is going to determine what your name is worth down the road.
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Don't neccessarily disagree. But don't you think the group you are labeling "webmaster" is a very small portion? Not to mention the "professional" portion. What about "John Q Public"?
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Originally Posted by AVC
If you want to protect your name and websites integrity (reputation with Google), use no follow on links contributed by the public, and don't give an editorial link out unless you believe in it and endorse what you are writing about.
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Can't agree with this at all. Doesn't what the public thinks matter? Matter a lot? Isn't this part of the very definition of "natural"? Since when should the opinion of "the public" not matter? That is exactly what they want and what they should value. The opinions, thoughts, and "endoresements" of anyone who gives it freely. Blogs opened a whole new means for the average person to say what they'd like to say and "endorse" what they wish. Suggesting they and all of their participants "should count" or be prevented from "counting" takes us back to the very beginning when the only people who could "voice" an "opinion" were few AND had personal gains to do so.
Let's take your suggestion to the nth degree... No links count unless you place them yourself on your own property. Not a single link from a forum, blog, news aggreator, counts unless the site owner themself place it and only on their own site. Thats about the most manipulative thing I can think of. He who has the most sites and the most pages wins. Internal navigation and linking to yourself trumps everything.
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Originally Posted by AVC
Google is making webmasters and their reputations part of the search algo's and if you want your work to show up in Google, clean up your act and follow their guidelines.
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Unless you call every single owner of a blog, site, page a "webmaster" and unless each and everyone of them are aware of the "guidelines" or even particularly care and/or know they exist, this simply isn't enough. Google needs to find and implement solutions themselves and not rely on millions of other people to do it for them.
Dave