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I’ll give you 2 Carlos Beltran’s for your Honus Wagner. He’s predicted to make the Hall of Fame so they’re going to be worth quite a bit and would be great for your portfolio.
I’m surprised (ok, so I’m not) at some of the link exchange requests and suggestions received via email or by private messages in various forums. What the fuzzuck, is it my avatar?
Why does everyone expect a quality link in exchange for a reciprocated link from a hyperlink landfill they so fondly refer to as a directory? Do they really believe that a few green pixels are enough to camouflage their link farm? I don’t care how many coats of paint you put on the outhouse, it still stinks whenever you open the door.
How about a link from your well ranked authority page in exchange for a reciprocated link from a page deep in my crappy unknown and rarely visited directory? It’s a predicted PageRank 5 you know, so it’ll be a powerful one-way link and good for your SEO. And I’ll also add your site to another of my predicted PageRank 4 general directories.
You’re suggesting we exchange links for all of the wrong reasons. I don’t care about your PageRank and I’m not sure why you’re so concerned with my SEO efforts. Link dumps are really popular right now and I’m sure if you look around, you’ll find one to play in. Maybe even in a bad neighborhood near you.
If you have a site that my visitors would find interesting and it’s related to the topic of my site, I just may link to it because I like it. You should consider doing the same sometime.
Oh, you can keep your Carlos Beltran’s, the corners are bent anyway.
As everyone thought, Matt Cutts has mentioned that it’s highly unlikely that we will be seeing RK values any time soon, if ever again.
Q: “Is the RK parameter turned off, or should we expect to see it again?”
A: I wouldn’t expect to see the RK parameter have a non-zero value again.
Q: “What’s an RK parameter?”
A: It’s a parameter that you could see in a Google toolbar query. Some people outside of Google had speculated that it was live PageRank, that PageRank differed between Bigdaddy and the older infrastructure, etc.
So there goes all of the Predicted PageRank tools down the drain. Now aren’t you glad you didn’t buy one of those hot kiddie scripts to create your own Future PageRank site?
I imagine that there will be a few individuals that would like to think that they were responsible for clouding everyone’s crystal ball, and wanting to make alot of noise to draw attention to themselves, but I think they really know better.
Any time someone discovers a cute little trick and it becomes mainstream, expect Google to react.
Remember when your backlinks would be listed in order of PageRank just by inserting a hyphen in front of the link: operator?
Those were great times, weren’t they?
I didn’t think it would happen but it has. LookSmart has shutdown Zeal.com.
We thank you all for being a part of the Zeal community and contributing your time and knowledge to the Directory. LookSmart has decided to focus internal resources on objectives that are more central to our business strategy and Zeal.com has been shut down. We apologize for any inconvenience and thank you again for contributing to the Zeal community.
We think avid Zeal users will appreciate the large and vital community at Furl.net. Furl is an online book marking service that helps save information that’s important to you, share it with friends and see what others are saving.
Wonder if LookSmart could no longer afford to commit the resources necessary to maintain the directory. I don’t know of anyone that actually used Zeal, and I can count the referrals on one hand. I have a feeling that we’ll be hearing less and less about LookSmart.
I’m always asked a number of questions regarding the basic elements or the nuts and bolts of optimizing a web page. This is probably a good a place as any to offer some thoughts regarding simple optimization.
Optimizing web pages for your visitors instead of spiders usually yields the best long term results. Creating web pages for your target audience will provide plenty of spider food for the search engines.
If you’re creating an eCommerce site, keep in mind that spiders don’t carry credit cards, so there’s really no need to try to over impress them.
Seems that Google has stopped providing the RK values that all of the popular PageRank Prediction tools were using to entertain us with visions of real time or future PageRank values.
Is it permanent or just temporary? We’ll have to wait and see. Sure has quelled the “Future PageRank” mumblings going on in the webmaster forums.
Sweet!
Are you afflicted?
Pixel Envy (piks’ el en’ve)(n): The feeling of discontent or resentment aroused by the qualities of another’s toolbar or public PageRank display.
Pixel Envy (PE) is a neurological condition which results in involuntary spasms and vocalizations called tics. Symptoms are most pronounced around the months of January, April, July and October.
Symptoms of Pixel Envy include involuntary spasms like repetitive typing of domain names into PageRank tools that provide simultaneous multiple displays for which the afflicted become overly excited.
Those with Pixel Envy become delusional and attempt to hoard PageRank, refusing to exchange links with others whose toolbar PR displays values less than their own and believing that their PageRank is somehow more powerful than anothers.
Many laypersons inaccurately believe that all persons with Pixel Envy syndrome have coprolalia - the uncontrollable and obsessive utterances of inappropriate phrases (such as Future PageRank or Predicted PageRank) - although the majority of persons with Pixel Envy syndrome may not.
Pixels’ de la Goog’les Syndrome - also called Pixel Envy disorder - was once believed to be very rare. Current research shows that Pixel Envy syndrome is not rare, and that the majority of cases probably go undiagnosed and undetected.
Okay, so you’ve discovered that someone ranking above you in the search results is using hidden text on their web page.
White, off-white or very light grey text on a white background, a long list of keywords or a paragraph that really makes no sense but is so full of search terms and keyword phrases you’d think a spider would choke on all that crap.
Spammer! Gotcha!
Most of the major search engines have a form for reporting search quality issues, so you fill out the form and wait for the page to drop from the search results so that your own page will move up one spot.
And you wait…..
And you wait…..
And you wait…..
And nothing happens. And you can’t figure out why, search engines are pretty clear about their quality guidelines. Attempting to manipulate the search results should result in the removal from their index.
So you fill out the form again as you’re sure it was just overlooked. Again, nothing happens.
So now you’re thinking “what the fuzzuck does it take to get this spammer out of the search results?”
Well, for starters, hidden text is rarely, if ever, going to get someone manually removed from the search results. The random, temporary removal of a few sites by some search engines is just an attempt to convince you of their ability to identify and remove pages utilizing techniques designed to manipulate the search results.
More importantly, text is just text - hidden or not. If you’re unable to obtain better rankings than a page utilizing hidden text, why do you think you could if the text were visible? You really should be looking at other factors.
And spam reports don’t qualify as SEO. But, I think you already knew that.
What the fuzzuck is with all of the fascination over Future PageRank or Predicted PageRank?
I really hate to say it, but the webmasters making the most noise about their Predicted PageRank or Future PageRank are the ones who least understand PageRank and wouldn’t know what to do with it if they had it.
It’s almost pathetic to see the arrogance wilt into humility in the webmaster forums after an update of the PageRank display on the Google Toolbar.
Here’s a little hint; it’s not the PageRank you should be chasing.
Like the dog who chases his tail - you won’t know what to do with it if you ever catch it.
While you’re preoccupied with the foolbar, you’re getting spanked in the search results.
For the most part, conducting business transactions online with individuals is not a problem. You negotiate the sale or purchase of goods or services, monies are transferred via one of the online payment processors such as PayPal or Stormpay and the goods or services are delivered as agreed.
But there’s always that chance that you’ll perform a service or agree to purchase goods at an auction and get the short end.
Ever have a really good deal gone bad - and get that feeling you’ve just been screwed? Can’t get someone to pay up? High bidder in an auction and the seller refuses to honor your bid?
Enter an online design contest only to find out it’s also being held elsewhere or have the contest holder withdraw the prize money because they don’t like the submissions? Or even worse, they use your winning entry and refuse to pay?
Guess what?
You’ve just been BuzzNicked
Exactly.
That’s what I was thinking when I saw the name as well.
When it wasn’t registered, I thought “Why not?”
Ever just get an urge? Then you know what I mean.