> If you want to rank high on Google, try producing decent content. Now there’s a radical idea.
Well, yes, isn’t it just. That would be like my 200-page commercial site (not including my blogs) or the 150,000+ subscriber newsletter I write for, or the couple of major forums where I do or have moderated since 1999. My pages generally rank well in the major search engines. However, if you have found that simply “producing decent content” will make it rank well and allow people to find it in search engines, more power to you.
Next, to all: I didn’t mean to incite anything; I just look at it kind of like my ISP deciding to employ heavy spam controls that result in my not getting legitimate email. Thus the use of the word “crippled”; no doubt another word would have been a better choice for others here. Apologies there.
My point is that there are *many* factors with respect to ranking in Google and the other major search engines that generally aren’t known or studied by most webmasters, and there is much misinformation out there. I felt, or did feel until now, that as a member of the community, I might give a word to the wise.
You know, a search for “WordPress nuances” won’t return much other than “WordPress nuances” pages because there is generally no way of ranking a page for every term in the book. But almost *any* links help with ranking so long as a search engine spider can follow those links to the pages that are the targets of the links, and that’s why comment spammers want links.
At the same time, a great deal of the ranking of blogs is based almost solely upon links from other blogs and/or websites. In fact, blogs can be viewed as a vast interlinked network, something that Google hasn’t been able to combat on its own but has wanted to do, if you’ll look around. So if blogs in general stop allowing links to be followed, then in addition to not helping any spammers whose links they’ve allowed to remain on their blogs, those blogs *also* don’t help each other. Then you have only the major blogs ranking well. I suspect that this will have an interesting effect, but what do I know.
My personal feeling about legitimate comments on my blog is that I don’t care if the comment also links back to the poster’s site. Not a big deal, I’m happy to be able to read their blogs, too, and it doesn’t bother me that they get something back for what they give. I certainly don’t belittle them or their input by calling them spammers, because they’re not. Kinda like I send money to the WP developers for copies of WP that my clients or I use even though WP is technically free. And will continue to do so, regardless of what version I choose to use, because I highly appreciate what WordPress’ developers do and have done. It’s pretty slick stuff, and I don’t ask for it for free.
From LouQuillio
> Almost corporate. Ya know?
One begins to wonder. Good catch. <grin>
That’s all. I’ve now said my piece, and will leave y’all to your own views.
