Tag Archives: wikipedia
Jason Calacanis – Wikia Mailing List Troll
I followed a link from Aaron's writeup on the Alpha for Wikia, to the Wikia Whitelist of sites that will be included in the first few waves of development.
I discovered this touching remark from Wikia and Wikipedia founder Jimbo Wales about Jason Calacanis...
Mahalo To Remove Wikipedia Links!
I was just reading an interesting article on Mahalo about their absolutely amazing plagiarism checker. (yes it is just a Google search and a bit of javascript) If Jason wants something useful he should use iplagiarismcheck.com (I wrote a sponsored review about them recently, I am sure Jason can afford the unlimited package)
Anyway one paragraph interested me
One of the most important parts of the QC and serping process is making sure the sites we link to on Mahalo do not have scraped or stolen content, that is, the sites do not take content from another source without attribution
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Jason Calacanis & The 4 Little SEOs Podcast
I’ll huff and I’ll puff and I’ll blow your SERPs down…
But is it all just hot air?
Also vailable as Audio [MP3] video [mp4] iPod [mp4]
Staring
Jason Calacanis (here is a link to all my Jason Calacanis coverage)
Posted in SEO Blog, web 2.0 Also tagged Allen_Stern, Brian_Provost, centernetworks, graywolf, jason calacanis, mahalo, Michael_Gray, podcast, podtech, Scoreboard_Media, video Comments closed
Destroy Your Blog Rankings Linking To Digg or Technorati?
How many blogs link to Technorati on every post they publish? Many blogs also use followable links to social bookmarking sites such as Delicious, and social news sites such as Digg on every single page of their site? Google in their recently disclosed patent are saying that it could be a negative indication of quality.
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Posted in Google, blogging tips, plugins, web 2.0 Also tagged blogsearch, blog_search, delicious, digg, dofollow, Google, google_blogsearch, nofollow, tagging, tags, technorati Comments closed
Could Just 1 Character Turn A 4 Day Old News Story Into A Front Page Digg?
You would think it is impossible for one small detail to have a dramatic effect on whether a story is promoted on Digg. Here is how it happened, decide for yourself…
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Ive Just Been Floored – Am I Out For The Count?
I started tapping out a comment on Chris’s Search Anyway blog, but decided it would be much better to send him some visitors. It is not like I can send him a massive wave of visitors, because not all my subscribers are heavily into the nitty gritty of the nofollow debate in various contexts, though it is something that fascinates me.
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Can You Really Take Search Engine and Technology News Seriously?
There is currently a case running in the Danish courts that will effectively decide the law in Denmark for linking to a page other than a home page, typically known as deep linking.
We are not talking about hot-linking, pulling an image or video off someone else’s server into the middle of your own content, but linking as you might to this blog article, using the permalink.
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Posted in SEO Blog, news Also tagged blogger, britney_spears, deep_linking, global_warming, krak, link, linking, news, paris_hilton, robert_scoble, search, search_engine, tech, windows_vista Comments closed
Wikipedia NoFollow Plugin
I mentioned I was willing to create such a plugin, I was even cobbling the code together.
Then I noticed a mention over on Matt’s blog (just search for Matt) in the comments that somone had written one.
Wordpress Founder – Admits Nofollow Didn’t Work
I am going to start off with
Damn that’s Brave
Matt was commenting on the Wikipedia announcement, and made the following statement.
Hmm excerpt? – Matt please forgive me, but it is so short I am going to include it all.
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Exactly Why Nofollow at Wikipedia is bad
Once upon a time, a scientist wrote a brilliant blog post solving the answer to life, the universe and everything. A few people linked to him, and anyone searching for the answer to the ultimate question could find it easily, by just a simple search in Google.
The scientist appeared right at the top of the results.
Wikipedia NoFollow Plugin? WikiDigg?
The news today seems to be that Wikipedia have added nofollow to external links.
I have seen a lot of sites mention that all the search engines respect nofollow. Actually they don’t. Anlaysis has shown that Yahoo certainly follow and index pages despite the nofollow tag.
⇒ ⇒ Wikiseek Results = Rubbish
Wikiseek seems to be the hottest news of the day but honestly it is just a poor mashup of the Wikipedia database, a poor quality search engine, and some PPC adverts. Whilst Wikiseek has launched in a huge fanfare, and admittedly is still in beta, my personal opinion is that Wikipedia are taking the wrong direction.
Posted in Google, SEO Blog, web 2.0 Also tagged cse, Google, google_cse, google_custom_search, mashup, results, search, searchme, search_engine, wikiseek Comments closed
Some Fun With Zemanta
Whilst writing the last post about a marketing book survey I was also testing out a new Firefox plugin that is currently in beta, Zemanta
What Does Zemanta Do Exactly?
It adds editing functions to various popular online blogging interfaces, Wordpress (both .org and .com), Blogger and Typepad. These are the type of functions you could probably add a plugin for if you are using Wordpress on your own hosting, but wouldn't be available for Blogger, Typepad and Wordpress.com users.
That makes it something worth taking a careful look at for niche marketers, even if you use WordPress for most of