When emails like this come from amateurs it’s one thing, but when they come from so-called SEO professionals…
TechMeme: Anti-linking Engine
I’ve noticed this several times and thought I’d bring it up.
TechMeme seems to penalize bloggers who link to other bloggers. Most bloggers believe that a major part of how TechMeme decides which is the most important story is to count links. That isn’t true in following mine, and other people’s results.
I believe there’s a “linking penalty” on TechMeme. At least it seems that way after doing my own link counting.
Let’s say there’s three stories.
Is Linking To Pirated Content A Liability?
The online video copyright issue is set to get more intense as legal lines come closer into focus. The YouTube and Viacom case, in the unlikely event it sees a courtroom, would be large enough to solidify some ground rules. There are also international complications, which makes one wonder if the World Wide Web will one day necessitate a Virtual World Court.
In-Site Linking Is In Demand
In-site links may feel pointless; after all, you would never gain anything by listing yourself as a reference in the real world. But in answer to the question of whether in-site links have any value, the good folks at Pandia believe, “Actually, they do.”
Okay, so, “Actually, the do” is what really appears, but typos happen, and the main idea stands.
Reasons for Deep Linking
While writing a post, always try to link to some older posts with absolute paths.
Lessons In Linking With Robert Scoble
The fastest way to anger the collective hive-mind that is the blogosphere is not to link to it. The second fastest way to anger the blogosphere is to accuse others of not linking to it. The lesson there is that not linking is the unpardonable sin, and PodTech.net’s Robert Scoble stepped forward over the weekend to throw the first stone.
Developing Your Internal Linking Structure
The core of the Internet is pages with links pointing to and from them. That’s why it is not only important to have something to get links to, but to link from a page.
The Long Tail of Linking
Back when the Internet and subsequently the blogosphere was in its infancy, there were two concepts that seemed to win the day: link exchanges and blogrolls. Each provided a way of gaining more traffic and visibility.
Linking Strategies: To Buy or Not to Buy
Buying text links for your website is a highly controversial subject online. Like it or not, approve of the practice or disapprove, it does exist and there are many website owners who are doing it.
Intranet / Portal – Prioritize Content and Develop an Effective Linking Strategy
How to prioritize content and determine where to link it on an Intranet or portal…