Comments on: Feedster Top 500 Stalls http://www.problogger.net/archives/2005/10/07/feedster-top-500-stalls/ Blog Tips to Help You Make Money Blogging - ProBlogger Fri, 10 Feb 2012 05:26:23 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: Jim http://www.problogger.net/archives/2005/10/07/feedster-top-500-stalls/comment-page-1/#comment-181290 Jim Tue, 13 Dec 2005 18:33:29 +0000 http://www.problogger.net/?p=1645#comment-181290 Whats frequency of this updates? Whats frequency of this updates?

]]> By: Cary http://www.problogger.net/archives/2005/10/07/feedster-top-500-stalls/comment-page-1/#comment-140603 Cary Sun, 09 Oct 2005 23:09:46 +0000 http://www.problogger.net/?p=1645#comment-140603 TDavid, no, I feel my comments are comments...they are made for the sake of comraderie and conversation, not for the value they could get me in the search engines. I guess I find your stance a bit bewildering because it is widely accepted these days that most bloggers apply the rel=nofollow attribute to the links in their comments due to comment spam. Darren, I'm sure, is no different. It also encourages conversation for the sake of conversation...something that ProBlogger.net is known for, and the reason that many of us keep coming back. I did not, however, mean to sound like a jerk – my apologies for that :0 TDavid, no, I feel my comments are comments…they are made for the sake of comraderie and conversation, not for the value they could get me in the search engines.

I guess I find your stance a bit bewildering because it is widely accepted these days that most bloggers apply the rel=nofollow attribute to the links in their comments due to comment spam. Darren, I’m sure, is no different.

It also encourages conversation for the sake of conversation…something that ProBlogger.net is known for, and the reason that many of us keep coming back.

I did not, however, mean to sound like a jerk – my apologies for that :0

]]> By: Darren Rowse http://www.problogger.net/archives/2005/10/07/feedster-top-500-stalls/comment-page-1/#comment-139267 Darren Rowse Sat, 08 Oct 2005 01:17:52 +0000 http://www.problogger.net/?p=1645#comment-139267 thanks Scott - appreciate the update. thanks Scott – appreciate the update.

]]> By: TDavid http://www.problogger.net/archives/2005/10/07/feedster-top-500-stalls/comment-page-1/#comment-139262 TDavid Fri, 07 Oct 2005 23:33:37 +0000 http://www.problogger.net/?p=1645#comment-139262 Cary - thanks for schooling me on link farms, which was far and away not what I was talking about. I was simply suggesting that perhaps a little more value should be placed on comments and people taking time to leave them. It's a blogger's way of saying "thank you" for the time to readers/subscibers/comments, IMO. Conversely, rel=nofollow is a way of saying: "your link is good for others to follow, but I do not want the SE to follow you." It's an explicit non-vote. A link farm is everybody put in their links with zero moderation and it's a freeforall for spammers. Do you feel your comments are on the level of a link farm? I sure don't. Whatever. Cary – thanks for schooling me on link farms, which was far and away not what I was talking about. I was simply suggesting that perhaps a little more value should be placed on comments and people taking time to leave them. It’s a blogger’s way of saying “thank you” for the time to readers/subscibers/comments, IMO.

Conversely, rel=nofollow is a way of saying: “your link is good for others to follow, but I do not want the SE to follow you.” It’s an explicit non-vote.

A link farm is everybody put in their links with zero moderation and it’s a freeforall for spammers. Do you feel your comments are on the level of a link farm? I sure don’t.

Whatever.

]]> By: Scott Johnson of Feedster http://www.problogger.net/archives/2005/10/07/feedster-top-500-stalls/comment-page-1/#comment-139228 Scott Johnson of Feedster Fri, 07 Oct 2005 19:10:42 +0000 http://www.problogger.net/?p=1645#comment-139228 Hi there, As the author of the Feedster 500, I should probably comment on this. You're definitely right -- we didn't release a version in September and we should have. The reason was that spam in the blogosphere kicked up the volume quite a bit and I had to put the bulk of my time into revising our anti-spam routines. While we're certainly not perfect yet, we're considerably better than we were and now that that's done, I'll be focusing on rolling out the October Feedster 500. Don't worry. Its definitely coming. Scott Hi there,

As the author of the Feedster 500, I should probably comment on this. You’re definitely right — we didn’t release a version in September and we should have. The reason was that spam in the blogosphere kicked up the volume quite a bit and I had to put the bulk of my time into revising our anti-spam routines. While we’re certainly not perfect yet, we’re considerably better than we were and now that that’s done, I’ll be focusing on rolling out the October Feedster 500.

Don’t worry. Its definitely coming.

Scott

]]> By: Cary http://www.problogger.net/archives/2005/10/07/feedster-top-500-stalls/comment-page-1/#comment-139224 Cary Fri, 07 Oct 2005 18:26:32 +0000 http://www.problogger.net/?p=1645#comment-139224 TDavid, Darren teaches people how to make money by blogging – he does not claim to be a link-farm. Comments are not the place to get your incoming links. Those links require hard work, and I think most of Darren's readers understand that. TDavid,

Darren teaches people how to make money by blogging – he does not claim to be a link-farm.

Comments are not the place to get your incoming links. Those links require hard work, and I think most of Darren’s readers understand that.

]]> By: Devin http://www.problogger.net/archives/2005/10/07/feedster-top-500-stalls/comment-page-1/#comment-139211 Devin Fri, 07 Oct 2005 16:08:45 +0000 http://www.problogger.net/?p=1645#comment-139211 ..obviously these "lists" were just to reaffirm some bloggers beliefs that they are as cool as they hoped they were. ;-) ..obviously these “lists” were just to reaffirm some bloggers beliefs that they are as cool as they hoped they were. ;-)

]]> By: TDavid http://www.problogger.net/archives/2005/10/07/feedster-top-500-stalls/comment-page-1/#comment-139210 TDavid Fri, 07 Oct 2005 15:56:16 +0000 http://www.problogger.net/?p=1645#comment-139210 BTW, Darren, just thought I'd mention that while you promote "helping bloggers earn money" as your slogan at the same time you are putting rel='nofollow' on every link made from blogger readers comments. You aren't even helping these readers earn related SE traffic for taking time to read and comment on your blog. Is this just an oversight or intentional? If it's an oversight, then might want to grab the WP plugin and remove that. Here's a link to that plugin: http://wp-plugins.net/index.php?id=194 Mixed message otherwise. BTW, Darren, just thought I’d mention that while you promote “helping bloggers earn money” as your slogan at the same time you are putting rel=’nofollow’ on every link made from blogger readers comments. You aren’t even helping these readers earn related SE traffic for taking time to read and comment on your blog.

Is this just an oversight or intentional? If it’s an oversight, then might want to grab the WP plugin and remove that. Here’s a link to that plugin: http://wp-plugins.net/index.php?id=194

Mixed message otherwise.

]]> By: TDavid http://www.problogger.net/archives/2005/10/07/feedster-top-500-stalls/comment-page-1/#comment-139208 TDavid Fri, 07 Oct 2005 15:38:22 +0000 http://www.problogger.net/?p=1645#comment-139208 Yes, I noticed after Scott Rafer showed up and my blog to reply to comments I made on the August list. I blogged about the no September update thing here: http://www.makeyougohmm.com/20050919/2394/ An astute reader pointed out that they changed their mind in September with a link to the feedster blog. Their plan was to "work on it" so that they could release something new in October. Well, one week down, three more to go on that front. Rafer said they were going to try and shoot for the middle of the month so my guess is we'll see it released the week of the 17th-23. Just a guess, though. CNET has their top 100 list out though :) Yes, I noticed after Scott Rafer showed up and my blog to reply to comments I made on the August list. I blogged about the no September update thing here:
http://www.makeyougohmm.com/20050919/2394/

An astute reader pointed out that they changed their mind in September with a link to the feedster blog. Their plan was to “work on it” so that they could release something new in October.

Well, one week down, three more to go on that front. Rafer said they were going to try and shoot for the middle of the month so my guess is we’ll see it released the week of the 17th-23. Just a guess, though.

CNET has their top 100 list out though :)

]]> By: duncan http://www.problogger.net/archives/2005/10/07/feedster-top-500-stalls/comment-page-1/#comment-139183 duncan Fri, 07 Oct 2005 11:29:10 +0000 http://www.problogger.net/?p=1645#comment-139183 yes. Disappointing really. yes. Disappointing really.

]]> By: Dave http://www.problogger.net/archives/2005/10/07/feedster-top-500-stalls/comment-page-1/#comment-139180 Dave Fri, 07 Oct 2005 11:18:23 +0000 http://www.problogger.net/?p=1645#comment-139180 Yes, I noticed a couple of weeks ago that September was nearly over, yet the list was still to be updated. I guess the questions is whether it was a one hit wonder to generate some traffic, or if there are technical reasons why the list hasn;t been updated. Yes, I noticed a couple of weeks ago that September was nearly over, yet the list was still to be updated.

I guess the questions is whether it was a one hit wonder to generate some traffic, or if there are technical reasons why the list hasn;t been updated.

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