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[Fred Leeflang]

Hmm. Yesterday 190 ad displays of the square ad on the front page. 0 clicks.

I'm also a bit concerned about links to the blog. We have no real referrers worth mentioning other than stumbleupon, facebook, twitter and livejournal. We need some good referrers to get Google to send us much more steady traffic instead of the spiky behaviour when something is picked up by the swarm from slashdot/stumbleupon. Any suggestions?

-Fred

[T Leeflang]

What about other tech blogs? Tit for tat?

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[Fred Leeflang]

Yeah I think that's an excellent approach. For search engines (most notably Google) to find  your site, you need what's called 'pagerank'. You get pagerank through several ways (getting links to  your site being one of them but choosing right keywords also has something to do with it among others).

Not all links are worth pagerank though; Links posted on forums typically get a rel="nofollow" attribute added so search engines don't weigh those. Why forum owners do this...; simple because you can also *loose* pagerank by linking to sites without the rel="nofollow" tag. Pagerank 'flows' so to say.

Maybe we also need to consider something like a particular type of articles; posting articles about news fades away quickly and not many people will link to contents that's 'old'. A reference for example would work well I think so if we can think of things that people would look at again and again, that would probably get links eventually.

2010/2/6 T Leeflang <toren...@dutchie.org>