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Re: Destroy Your Blog Rankings Linking To Digg or Technorati?

Rajiv Abraham — Wed, 30 Apr 2008 23:13:10 -0000

Really good site here Andy. Bookmarking it right away. Was reading on Social Media Marketing on Caroline Middlebrook when your link featured in the comments section and I followed it up. Lots of interesting articles here and very helpful too.

Re: Destroy Your Blog Rankings Linking To Digg or Technorati?

Rajiv Abraham — Wed, 30 Apr 2008 23:13:10 -0000

Re: Destroy Your Blog Rankings Linking To Digg or Technorati?

Jon Marks — Tue, 22 Apr 2008 10:37:35 -0000

I'm glad to see you mention the Digg badge. I have used that several times and have have had some GREAT results with it. I strongly recommend everyone use it. Just be sure to use the code so that the title and description defaults. That way you can control the anchor text.

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Jon Marks — Tue, 22 Apr 2008 10:37:35 -0000

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maiq — Mon, 31 Dec 2007 06:24:06 -0000

I agree about Technorati and Wikipedia, but for bookmarking links you could use a plugin like share this or something.

Re: Destroy Your Blog Rankings Linking To Digg or Technorati?

maiq — Mon, 31 Dec 2007 06:24:06 -0000

I agree about Technorati and Wikipedia, but for bookmarking links you could use a plugin like share this or something.

Re: Destroy Your Blog Rankings Linking To Digg or Technorati?

Linda Bustos — Sat, 22 Dec 2007 18:40:25 -0000

Would be nice if everyone no-followed Wikipedia and it lost its high rankings for some things - many SEOs would have happy clients.

I guess the same will go for linking to knol now?

Re: Destroy Your Blog Rankings Linking To Digg or Technorati?

Linda Bustos — Sat, 22 Dec 2007 18:40:25 -0000

Would be nice if everyone no-followed Wikipedia and it lost its high rankings for some things - many SEOs would have happy clients.

I guess the same will go for linking to knol now?

Re: Destroy Your Blog Rankings Linking To Digg or Technorati?

Subconscious Mind — Tue, 25 Sep 2007 01:38:27 -0000

i thought this was a great article, and i did wonder about the effect of linking out to social bookmarking sites. but does it really matter if you follow comments?

there is a social bookmarking plugin that has the option to use nofollow on the links, and i think it is more descriptive than sociable which i used to use. the plugin is called "bookmark me"

Re: Destroy Your Blog Rankings Linking To Digg or Technorati?

Subconscious Mind — Tue, 25 Sep 2007 01:38:27 -0000

i thought this was a great article, and i did wonder about the effect of linking out to social bookmarking sites. but does it really matter if you follow comments?

there is a social bookmarking plugin that has the option to use nofollow on the links, and i think it is more descriptive than sociable which i used to use. the plugin is called "bookmark me"

Re: Destroy Your Blog Rankings Linking To Digg or Technorati?

AndyBeard — Wed, 15 Aug 2007 03:57:23 -0000

Mike, all you have to do is stick nofollow on the links, but you only have the links on your homepage, so it wouldn't be any potential penalty (and that is only speculation reading a 2 year old patent)

I would also think of a way to have bookmarks that are specific to each page of content.
I am not sure which CMS you are using, but there should be a way to have the permalinks added to the submit URL

Re: Destroy Your Blog Rankings Linking To Digg or Technorati?

AndyBeard — Wed, 15 Aug 2007 03:57:23 -0000

Re: Destroy Your Blog Rankings Linking To Digg or Technorati?

Mike Rad — Wed, 15 Aug 2007 01:47:16 -0000

Google.... who would have thought that social bookmarking links or references to Wikipedia can harm tour blog/site. I own a car website and i've started using social bookmarking to brand it and increase its popularity - I still have quite a few links to social bookmarking sites on my index page, but after reading your post Andy I am seriously thinking of removing them.

I was wondering if it also works the other way around - do you trigger some sort of filters if you have too many links from wikipedia or digg for example, pointing towards your website. Any advice on that?

Thanks!

Re: Destroy Your Blog Rankings Linking To Digg or Technorati?

Mike Rad — Wed, 15 Aug 2007 01:47:16 -0000

Thanks!

Re: Destroy Your Blog Rankings Linking To Digg or Technorati?

AndyBeard — Sun, 08 Jul 2007 09:08:54 -0000

Ilker did something for the voting buttons on blogspot, I am not sure if the code was made available but in many ways it looks better than sociable, with a niche rollover effect.

The subscription buttons are just a list of links and graphics, but with rel="nofollow" on the links.

Re: Destroy Your Blog Rankings Linking To Digg or Technorati?

AndyBeard — Sun, 08 Jul 2007 09:08:54 -0000

Ilker did something for the voting buttons on blogspot, I am not sure if the code was made available but in many ways it looks better than sociable, with a niche rollover effect.

The subscription buttons are just a list of links and graphics, but with rel="nofollow" on the links.

Re: Destroy Your Blog Rankings Linking To Digg or Technorati?

Etienne Teo — Sun, 08 Jul 2007 04:09:39 -0000

hi andy, i just want to know whether you have done any plugins like this or code for blogger users? i am excited to have this up and discuss in my blog and would like to have a link for a code to my bloggers mate.Update me when possible, thanks!

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Etienne Teo — Sun, 08 Jul 2007 04:09:39 -0000

Re: Destroy Your Blog Rankings Linking To Digg or Technorati?

Franck Silvestre — Sun, 01 Apr 2007 20:12:30 -0000

Very interesting article. I will try your hacked version, but if it's too difficult, I will just use the ekstreme.

Re: Destroy Your Blog Rankings Linking To Digg or Technorati?

Franck Silvestre — Sun, 01 Apr 2007 20:12:30 -0000

Very interesting article. I will try your hacked version, but if it's too difficult, I will just use the ekstreme.

Re: Destroy Your Blog Rankings Linking To Digg or Technorati?

AndyBeard — Fri, 30 Mar 2007 12:33:24 -0000

Ilker, what you can do is just copy the code generated (it is just a bunch of links and icons) and add in the code that creates permalinks on blogger.

or just use something like addthis.com

Re: Destroy Your Blog Rankings Linking To Digg or Technorati?

AndyBeard — Fri, 30 Mar 2007 12:33:24 -0000

Ilker, what you can do is just copy the code generated (it is just a bunch of links and icons) and add in the code that creates permalinks on blogger.

or just use something like addthis.com

Re: Destroy Your Blog Rankings Linking To Digg or Technorati?

ilker — Fri, 30 Mar 2007 12:19:32 -0000

Does anyone know if there is a way to implement the Socialble for Blogger?

Re: Destroy Your Blog Rankings Linking To Digg or Technorati?

ilker — Fri, 30 Mar 2007 12:19:32 -0000

Does anyone know if there is a way to implement the Socialble for Blogger?

Re: Destroy Your Blog Rankings Linking To Digg or Technorati?

AndyBeard — Tue, 27 Mar 2007 07:22:10 -0000

Everything in moderation Ray :)

Take this page as a good example

As is typical on B and C lister blogs, the blog post hasn't received a huge amount of incoming link love, though I am glad it has generated some great discussion.

When the post was first published, even if I had included a few links to 3rd parties, a large proportion of the links on the page go to internal pages, and almost always using a suitable keyword.

The post has become popular with my readers, lots of comments, and I share some link love using Dofollow.

I have gained a little link love to the page in various ways, and eventually that juice has to leave my site.

It is a bit ugly in this incarnation, but that tag cloud that grows just below this post based on the number of comments serves to ensure that other posts and commenters receive a fair share of that juice that flows out - I have no idea how many of the links actually get counted.

Ultimately the juice does flow out to my readers or the people I link to, and generally isn't wasted on submission forms.

I might do things differently for a very tight niche site, and I do experiment a lot. This site is experimental