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thanks in advance
There's so much cretin-related link spam, that SEs have had the sense to reduce the value to close to zero.
(a) Plus the nature of 99% of blogs means that they would have been close to zero anyway and
(b) On the tiny number of 'quality blogs' (by content and link value), links have only brief value as the content is displaced to the depths by new stuff and
(c) most blogs, even quality blogs, have serious duplicate URL issues, which further reduces the value of 'old links'.
Link spam is possibly the most futile activity around. Worrying about the invisibility of baby pigeons is probably much more constructive. And still practised by millions.
Link spam, that is, not worrying about baby pigeons :)
Probably ;)
[edited by: Quadrille at 10:03 am (utc) on May 10, 2008]
Infact I know one company with a 20k spend per month on blog links and it really works.
Or are they paying 20k/month to drive-by link droppers?
When you say things like that, everyone seems to assume that it applies to every blog; forgetting that there are millions of blogs and 99%+ have few visitors, even from the spider community.
The number of blogs that matter - to anyone - is so small, that they might as well be considered 'abnormal' by all usual blog standards.
I've never understood the reverence that has attached itself to blogs. Geocities never had the same luck ;)
so I would not say they are devalued at all.
I can confirm that they are not devalued at all from a ranking standpoint.
Current SERP's prove otherwise...
Of course there's two types of blog links; blog posts and blog comments. Blog comments likely don't provide much if any weight (I'm speculating, but I don't see much in the way of people ranking due to blog comments). Blog posts on the other hand, provide great link juice and can get you ranked.
Mind you, I've yet to see a serp that suggests that 99% of blogs do much more then twitch, but maybe I'm looking at the wrong serps ;)
I've seen a couple of geocities sites do well in serps, but I'd be slow to generalise that they were a useful way to go :)
My question was about links placed in Blogrolls not links placed inside blog post -- that I'm sure are not worth much.
I'm wondering if there is a difference in value in blogrolls links of regular sites compared to links placed in blogrolls of google's Blogger
free sites.
I'm not sure about blogrolls, not having used them much. I'd expect that they would work about as well as you'd expect. If the blog's on topic and authority, then great, if not, not so much.
Blog comments won't do much good because they're mostly nofollowed. Blog posts do much good even on lower authority blogs I suspect because of the relevance of the post.
above is for Google.
