Ew. Weblog Chain Letters.
So as it turns out I had another insomniatic night here at home. As has become rather traditional, I’ve been looking through my copious newsfeeds and reading a lot of news. I like to stay in touch. Through them I got to read about a new variation on the chain letter in an effort to help smaller blogs get noticed on Google.
Eh, I’m not so sure how useful this is because, as a commenter on the post pointed out, it sounds more like a chain letter than anything else.
If small blogs (like myself, by the way!) want to get noticed, we’ll probably go around commenting on other people’s blogs. These are, as you know, links back to our own sites! Using the simple read-and-comment method is even easier nowadays with TrackBack and PingBack functionality built into most weblogging tools. Furthermore, it lets us control with far more precision which sites link to us.
No offense is intended at the originator of this so called “technique,” but I can’t really see the real usefulness of this. Sure, it might give me more links than simply commenting on posts will, but I doubt that’s the only thing that really drives Google’s rankings. Furthermore, it’s not all that helpful for real visitor click-thrus.
In the end, I’d much rather be a small blog with a small but human audience than a large blog with an entirely robotic audience.
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it would certainly have an affect if high pr sites participated in it, but fact of the matter is that the only sites participating it are most likely already ranked in google. giving very little credit for the backlink, and also a low click through rate. i like the idea. it is simply a google bomb, but in theory a possibility.
ethan
22 Sep 04 at 7:08 AM
But Google bombs always work better in theory. This is actually a bit more like a Google nuclear-war bomb: one is launched so another responds and so on. Besides, any possible weight of these massive link lists won’t really help random searches.
Case in point: you can easily find my blog, small as it may be, by running a google search for “ups and downs musings,” but what are the chances someone will type that exact phrase?
Meitar
22 Sep 04 at 7:37 AM