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  • what is the connection between this post and social networking, social News, and Web 2.0 groups u saved this under?
    • Blogs started what we now call Web 2,0, the driving force behind social networking, are the platform that social news is written on and the personal publishing platform that we all use to interact with readers here and else where. Don't you think a disscussion of using NoFollow vs DoFollow and creating better realtionships in within our own readership has alot to with social networking? How about with social marketing? Don't you think NoFollow and web 2.0 have a lot to do with one another? Did you bother to read the article or the article that I linked to? Did you read that the article at the other end of mine is trying to tell people that the Google does not actually follow a tags with nofollow. What a bunch of crap. Don't you think that proper blog management is very much a part of web 2.0? Wouldn't you think that everybody trying to use social networking, here and else where has a blog? I would pretty much guess that most people interested in social news, have a blog. I would hate for anyone here attempting to further their online success by using a blog to believe that adding every piece of crap link is not in any way going to hurt them. This is a very high end well written article by myself. This is not a fishing line story posted to blog marketing, which is still there and more to come I am sure. This is not one of 5 flat out sales letters that came in the daily email last week. Or are you just deciding to jump on this item since I raised a number of concerns that Searchles sends out links to fishing line stories and salesletters in the daily email? If only the other group owners were as diligent as you, which I pointed out to dumbfounder and Kimberly McKee as well.
      • This is an SEO article, most people that are into Social Networking and the other groups you posted to are not really interested in SEO. But it's not a big deal, I think it fits well enough with most of those except for Social News (which is supposed to be about social news sites like Digg/Reddit/etc). But, you are very wrong about PageRank incidentally. PR is how much power you wield when linking to places, and how much emphasis Google puts in the text in those links. This includes internal links, which is why it pays to have a high PR.
        • Thanks for the supportive reply, but did you watch the StomperNet video, it was part three, Andy and Brad as I quoted said "PageRank means nothing to how your site is ranked." I am going by their assessment. Also you may notice that I did not say PageRank means nothing. I said it means nothing to me. But when you look at PotPieGirl's site it has 7000 plus incoming links but a PR of 3. That is what Andy Beard calls a PR leak. I don't care about PageRank and I don't chase Google either. I do care that my articles rank high and that is related to links, outgoing vs. in site. >>> which is supposed to be about social news sites like Digg/Reddit/etc As far as social news not having anything to do with how you manage your blog, I still contend that our own blogs are the forefront of our social interaction. So if you are going to ruin your blogs standing with a poor PR doesn't that make it relevant? If you had a blog and you found out you were killing it's Google standing with junk like MyBlogLog wouldn't you consider that important news?
          • Quantity does not equal quality when it comes to calculating a PR. You could have 9 million links with a PR of 1 and still your PR could be 1. You get 10 links with a PR of 6 though and maybe you have a PR of 4. (numbers totally made up, just trying to illustrate a point). That said, the best way (not the only way, mind you) to achieve high PR is to offer something useful so that sites with high PR link to you. So you may not be gunning for a high PR, but high PR usually means high exposure, which is what you want. And reciprocally, high PR can mean high exposure in Google. It make it relevant to blogging groups, but isn't really what the people in the web 2.0 group are looking for. Those people are looking for new web 2.0 technologies/sites/ideas. Web 2.0 is really more about what's next, rather than what it originally was defined to be.
        • >>> Why not start you own social marketing group.... Well after all the complaining I have done about spam in the daily email I guess you finally called me out on that one. LOL Done. http://www.searchles.com/groups/show/Social+Marketing
    • As a novice I can clearly see the connection, it surprises me that you don't Paul! According to Larry Brauner, of Online Social Networking: "Page rank is Google’s measure of a site’s authority. It’s a major factor in Google’s determination of a site’s position in search results." To be known as Authority Site is one of the things which you should have an interest -- providing that you are looking for top positions on the search engines. The higher you consistantly rank in the search engines, the better the chance that people will actually visit your site. The more people that visit your site, the more popular your site becomes. The more popular your site becomes, the more traffic you get. Remember, you can't "sell" a product, service or an idea if no one ever sees or hears of what you have to "sell"... and we are all selling something, it doesn't matter if that item we "sell" is for acceptance of an idea or monetary profit. To reinvent the wheel was never something I enjoyed doing for I always gave people the credit that they are capable of reading and comprehending what they read. This brings me to the question of whether or not you actually read his article completely. If not then I suggest reading what Chris wrote, then I suggest researching what others say on the subject as well... including Pot Pie Girl. . What you should find from this research is that "Nofollow", "Dofollow", "Pagerank", and "Google juice" are all a part of a thing called Search Engine Optimization. SEO is a vital part of Social Networking and Social Marketing. This, in turn, makes it Social Networking and Social Marketing news. Novices learn something about how to make their blogs better, those more experience can analyze and debate the issues raised for improvement of old ideas. In the long run everyone benefits, providing they don't close their minds because their pet ideas come under attack. .
  • Also Paul, have you noticed that NONE, well there is one, of the items in social news has a comment. 0 interaction. Not one of the items posted to the social news group is from another source other than tech crunch, wired or news.com. I have already read this before I ever looked here. I depend on my social networks to bring me original news that you don't see in the mainstream. This believe that no one here actually reads the articles that are posted, they just read the description and move on.
    • SEO is definately a part of Social Marketing or vice versa.
  • Ok, I read everyone's comment here. Everyone has a point. As an old timer on Searchles, I don't think majority of Searchles users care about SEO stuff (at least not yet). They mostly use searchles for News, video content, social networking, sharing ideas, and similar. I remember over a year and half ago I started promoting my own services on the site, in less than a month, other users booted me out. Once, I started posting non self promoting stuff that were also my passion such as Entertainment, politics, sport, etc. Love was in the Air. I have been receiving ratings of 4 and 5 only - mostly 5.
    • You may notice that there is no self promotion here. True it is my site, that just happens to be where the content is. If it was somewhere else then it would have been linked to that blog. You may want to review my profile before you consider me self-promotional. All my posts are high end, top notch sites with leading edge news and content. Kind of like my own blog articles so it seems my self promotional post are in good company. LOL http://www.searchles.com/people/show/chrislang
    • In my opinion SEO Tactics can be useful for many things on the net, including (but not limited to necessarily) Web Sites, Message Boards, and Blogs. I think it would be a bonus for everyone to learn a little about it and utilize some of the tactics for their own sites... at least. I don't expect everyone to be gung-ho and get totally immerse into SEO, but it wouldn't hurt for them to become acquainted with it. Don't get me wrong, for this really isn't meant as a put down (but it will probably sound like one), but one of the most useless things I've seen in my life is utilizing a place like searchles for posting such mind-numbing articles like "The World's Largest Wad Of Spit". lol To me that seems like such a huge waste of time and resources.The trouble is that many of the so-called news-worthy items are not much better in quality. I mean who really gives a tinker's dam about whether Hillary can chug Boilermakers with the Steel Mill workers or Barack can bowl a game over 36. That type of stuff is useless news and it makes headlines for days on the local news shows, and in some cases the national news shows. It seems to me that places like Searchles ought to used for better things... like news that the Mainstream News Agencies don't like to report or things like Social Marketing and other fields of interest. You know I sometimes would rather see articles on doll making or Crab fishing than some of the garbage that comes across my TV Screen. lol