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Re: The One Million [blank] Day

AndyBeard — Wed, 05 Sep 2007 12:52:09 -0000

I link out to people fairly freely and primarily use nofollow only to control the flow of Google juice around my own site.

It is hard to give advice for people blogging on blogger because there are so many things difficult to achieve.

A quick search on Google with the only "loophole" he have to see what is in the primary index shows 44 pages

That is a search result so I nofollow it

A normal site search reveals 350 pages, which is probably closer to your total number of blog posts.

I have 1360 pages in the primary index and Google shows it knows about 1900 in total.

I could do a lot of work to improve that, and that will happen with my new theme.

The worst kind of external links are sitewide links in the sidebar that are not necessary, though things in javascript don't matter as search engines can't see them (including things like Adsense)

Linking out without nofollow in posts is a good thing, unless you don't vouch for the link, such as linking to a nastly blackhat SEO splogger, or to search results, forms with no content etc.
That is good Karma and good karma gets reciprocated.

Re: The One Million [blank] Day

AndyBeard — Wed, 05 Sep 2007 12:52:09 -0000

I link out to people fairly freely and primarily use nofollow only to control the flow of Google juice around my own site.

It is hard to give advice for people blogging on blogger because there are so many things difficult to achieve.

A quick search on Google with the only "loophole" he have to see what is in the primary index shows 44 pages

That is a search result so I nofollow it

A normal site search reveals 350 pages, which is probably closer to your total number of blog posts.

I have 1360 pages in the primary index and Google shows it knows about 1900 in total.

I could do a lot of work to improve that, and that will happen with my new theme.

The worst kind of external links are sitewide links in the sidebar that are not necessary, though things in javascript don't matter as search engines can't see them (including things like Adsense)

Re: The One Million [blank] Day

CyberCelt — Wed, 05 Sep 2007 12:15:47 -0000

Andy, this post confused me. I am a do-follow blogger. However, if I am discussing an article on Ad Age or another big name site, should I put a no follow on that link? They do not need the link and I wonder if I am hurting my page rank.

Also, I forgot to tell you on my last comment (9/4) that your favorites gizmo for feeds is showing errors. Is this because you stopped sharing your feeds?

If you do not have time to answer the no follow question, I will go bother Lucia! LOL

Re: The One Million [blank] Day

CyberCelt — Wed, 05 Sep 2007 12:15:47 -0000

Also, I forgot to tell you on my last comment (9/4) that your favorites gizmo for feeds is showing errors. Is this because you stopped sharing your feeds?

If you do not have time to answer the no follow question, I will go bother Lucia! LOL

Re: The One Million [blank] Day

AndyBeard — Tue, 21 Aug 2007 22:17:33 -0000

A million actual links in a day is fairly easy, but not if each domain is counted as just one link, and only one link per owner, otherwise you could just create thousands of splogs.

A site such as Stumbleupon with their subdomains, or Wordpress.com could create 1M domain/owner unique links from what the search engines regard as actual sites to a new service fairly easily.

Mahalo only had 40 content creators at launch, it should have been 1000+
What incentive is there to link to Mahalo?

Re: The One Million [blank] Day

AndyBeard — Tue, 21 Aug 2007 22:17:33 -0000

A million actual links in a day is fairly easy, but not if each domain is counted as just one link, and only one link per owner, otherwise you could just create thousands of splogs.

A site such as Stumbleupon with their subdomains, or Wordpress.com could create 1M domain/owner unique links from what the search engines regard as actual sites to a new service fairly easily.

Mahalo only had 40 content creators at launch, it should have been 1000+
What incentive is there to link to Mahalo?

Re: The One Million [blank] Day

Paul Bradish — Tue, 21 Aug 2007 21:05:25 -0000

I agree with Josh that the right linkbait and this might be possible, but I'd still have some serious doubts. It just doesn't seem feasible, but then again - I've been proven wrong many times before :).

Re: The One Million [blank] Day

Paul Bradish — Tue, 21 Aug 2007 21:05:25 -0000

Re: The One Million [blank] Day

Beach Fitness — Tue, 21 Aug 2007 19:04:03 -0000

I am sure that 1 million links would set off a flag in the google database. however by that point u would allready have a ridiculous amount of money form whatever u are doing so i guess it doesn't matter

Re: The One Million [blank] Day

Beach Fitness — Tue, 21 Aug 2007 19:04:03 -0000

Re: The One Million [blank] Day

Carson — Tue, 21 Aug 2007 13:56:19 -0000

Wow, a hefty thought to think of, no doubt. I can't imagine the planning it would take to get 1 million in a day. The results though are making me drool a bit.

We'll never get there unless we dream big!

Re: The One Million [blank] Day

Carson — Tue, 21 Aug 2007 13:56:19 -0000

Wow, a hefty thought to think of, no doubt. I can't imagine the planning it would take to get 1 million in a day. The results though are making me drool a bit.

We'll never get there unless we dream big!

Re: The One Million [blank] Day

lassaad — Tue, 21 Aug 2007 13:50:19 -0000

It is impossible to get ONE MILLION LINKS in JUST one day. the only way is to create a 100 000 high quality articles.

Re: The One Million [blank] Day

lassaad — Tue, 21 Aug 2007 13:50:19 -0000

It is impossible to get ONE MILLION LINKS in JUST one day. the only way is to create a 100 000 high quality articles.

Re: The One Million [blank] Day

lucia — Tue, 21 Aug 2007 12:40:46 -0000

I don't think I need to worry about what would happen if I suddenly got 1,000,000 links in one day. I figure 10 in one day would be a lot for me!

Re: The One Million [blank] Day

lucia — Tue, 21 Aug 2007 12:40:46 -0000

I don't think I need to worry about what would happen if I suddenly got 1,000,000 links in one day. I figure 10 in one day would be a lot for me!

Re: The One Million [blank] Day

Josh Spaulding — Tue, 21 Aug 2007 11:16:29 -0000

"Naturally you can't control who links to you" I think we all know we do control a majority of the links indirectly.

If you decide to start building links one day, would your links start increasing? Yes. If you stopped worrying about links all together, would they decrease? Yes.

Of course, if you're creating awesome info the links are going to come naturally, but when were talking about a million links, most likely it's indirectly going to be caused by you.

Also, Google makes it very clear that they favor a "natural" progression of links pointing to any one site. There are many people who believe getting thousands of links all at once will harm your rankings.

Re: The One Million [blank] Day

Josh Spaulding — Tue, 21 Aug 2007 11:16:29 -0000

"Naturally you can't control who links to you" I think we all know we do control a majority of the links indirectly.

If you decide to start building links one day, would your links start increasing? Yes. If you stopped worrying about links all together, would they decrease? Yes.

Of course, if you're creating awesome info the links are going to come naturally, but when were talking about a million links, most likely it's indirectly going to be caused by you.

Re: The One Million [blank] Day

SEO Cornwall — Tue, 21 Aug 2007 08:37:05 -0000

For a minute I thought you were going to start the onemillionlinkpage.com and hustle your way through to the big number, whilst documenting your life with a film crew from the BBC.

Actually, if Larry Page ever had a blog?

Re: The One Million [blank] Day

SEO Cornwall — Tue, 21 Aug 2007 08:37:05 -0000

For a minute I thought you were going to start the onemillionlinkpage.com and hustle your way through to the big number, whilst documenting your life with a film crew from the BBC.

Actually, if Larry Page ever had a blog?

Re: The One Million [blank] Day

Glen Allsopp — Tue, 21 Aug 2007 06:21:10 -0000

Naturally you can't control who links to you so it wouldn't be something to worry about (above commentor), as theres nothing you could do

I think you would be able to pull some pretty good pagerank and rankings with that amount of links andy

Re: The One Million [blank] Day

Glen Allsopp — Tue, 21 Aug 2007 06:21:10 -0000

Naturally you can't control who links to you so it wouldn't be something to worry about (above commentor), as theres nothing you could do

I think you would be able to pull some pretty good pagerank and rankings with that amount of links andy

Re: The One Million [blank] Day

Josh Spaulding — Tue, 21 Aug 2007 03:03:03 -0000

With the right link bait I think it's definitely possible. I'm sure it's already been done. But, call me pessimistic, I would be afraid a million links in one day, or 100,000 for that matter, would raise a bright red flag to Google?

I know it's just food for thought though and tasty it is :P

Re: The One Million [blank] Day

Josh Spaulding — Tue, 21 Aug 2007 03:03:03 -0000

I know it's just food for thought though and tasty it is :P