Comments on: 4 Ways to Get Banned from the Technorati Top 100 http://www.blogstorm.co.uk/blog/4-ways-to-get-banned-from-technorati-100/ Alex King, Denver Web Developer Thu, 24 May 2012 16:30:11 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 By: Jeffro2pt0 http://alexking.org/blog/2007/12/19/strange-views-indeed#comment-60354 Jeffro2pt0 Thu, 20 Dec 2007 22:45:07 +0000 http://alexking.org/blog/2007/12/19/strange-views-indeed#comment-60354 Alex, I think a number of people have taking what I wrote out of context and I clearly illustrated my point within the comments section of the article I wrote. <blockquote>Don’t get me wrong, plugin/theme authors have the exclusive right to include a link as a form of credit but these types of links should not be counted towards their authority ranking on Technorati because it’s not fair. This is not a problem with the creator getting credit, this is a problem of Technorati even bothering to recognize all of those links as a form of authority.</blockquote> I think a few people see the post I wrote as me getting on the cases of those who have gamed the system on purpose when that isn't true. Putting a credit link within something you created and are sharing for free has been a standard practice for some time. The problem lies within Technorati and their messed up algorithm which can't discern a regular link from a credit link if there is such a difference. Alex, I think a number of people have taking what I wrote out of context and I clearly illustrated my point within the comments section of the article I wrote.

Don’t get me wrong, plugin/theme authors have the exclusive right to include a link as a form of credit but these types of links should not be counted towards their authority ranking on Technorati because it’s not fair.

This is not a problem with the creator getting credit, this is a problem of Technorati even bothering to recognize all of those links as a form of authority.

I think a few people see the post I wrote as me getting on the cases of those who have gamed the system on purpose when that isn’t true. Putting a credit link within something you created and are sharing for free has been a standard practice for some time. The problem lies within Technorati and their messed up algorithm which can’t discern a regular link from a credit link if there is such a difference.

]]> By: at Citizen Jake http://alexking.org/blog/2007/12/19/strange-views-indeed#comment-60342 at Citizen Jake Thu, 20 Dec 2007 16:28:53 +0000 http://alexking.org/blog/2007/12/19/strange-views-indeed#comment-60342 [...] up on yesterday’s post, Alex King gives his thoughts on being banned from the Technorati Top [...] [...] up on yesterday’s post, Alex King gives his thoughts on being banned from the Technorati Top [...]

]]> By: Stephen Cronin http://alexking.org/blog/2007/12/19/strange-views-indeed#comment-60333 Stephen Cronin Thu, 20 Dec 2007 09:55:27 +0000 http://alexking.org/blog/2007/12/19/strange-views-indeed#comment-60333 I was considering adding a link to a sidebar widget of one of my plugins, so I ran poll on whether people would be worried by plugins promoting themselves. Only 42 people responded, but almost everyone said it was fine (if there was the option to opt out). Most felt it was a fair reward for providing a valuable service. I ended up leaving the link out (for design reasons) and I'm glad about that now. Having said, I'm a small fish, so they wouldn't have noticed me anyway! I guess there is a legitimate issue to be discussed here, but personally, I have no problem with someone such as yourself including a link. I was considering adding a link to a sidebar widget of one of my plugins, so I ran poll on whether people would be worried by plugins promoting themselves. Only 42 people responded, but almost everyone said it was fine (if there was the option to opt out). Most felt it was a fair reward for providing a valuable service.

I ended up leaving the link out (for design reasons) and I’m glad about that now. Having said, I’m a small fish, so they wouldn’t have noticed me anyway!

I guess there is a legitimate issue to be discussed here, but personally, I have no problem with someone such as yourself including a link.

]]> By: Alex http://alexking.org/blog/2007/12/19/strange-views-indeed#comment-60328 Alex Thu, 20 Dec 2007 06:04:53 +0000 http://alexking.org/blog/2007/12/19/strange-views-indeed#comment-60328 I will note that when I added the link by default to the plugin, I also added a way to easily remove it and included that information in the README. :) I will note that when I added the link by default to the plugin, I also added a way to easily remove it and included that information in the README. :)

]]> By: Brad Jasper http://alexking.org/blog/2007/12/19/strange-views-indeed#comment-60325 Brad Jasper Thu, 20 Dec 2007 03:14:38 +0000 http://alexking.org/blog/2007/12/19/strange-views-indeed#comment-60325 Alex, Don't worry about what other people assume your motives are, I personally see nothing wrong with the ? link. And if any plugin deserves a link--it would be Popularity Contest. On the other hand, I've seen plugins that add a link to the footer to a specific page without telling you--<em>that</em> Alex,

Don’t worry about what other people assume your motives are, I personally see nothing wrong with the ? link. And if any plugin deserves a link–it would be Popularity Contest.

On the other hand, I’ve seen plugins that add a link to the footer to a specific page without telling you–that

]]> By: adam http://alexking.org/blog/2007/12/19/strange-views-indeed#comment-60324 adam Thu, 20 Dec 2007 02:54:25 +0000 http://alexking.org/blog/2007/12/19/strange-views-indeed#comment-60324 technorati seems to be really bad at deciphering what are legitimate links and what aren't. their "solution" of just outright removing the offending blog is more evil than anything out of the google camp, too. nonetheless, i rarely use any plugin that inserts a linkback inside my content area, since it's really unreasonable to expect a search engine to be able to decipher that such a link isn't, indeed, part of my content. technorati seems to be really bad at deciphering what are legitimate links and what aren’t. their “solution” of just outright removing the offending blog is more evil than anything out of the google camp, too.

nonetheless, i rarely use any plugin that inserts a linkback inside my content area, since it’s really unreasonable to expect a search engine to be able to decipher that such a link isn’t, indeed, part of my content.

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