1. The registration issue was fixed days ago. You can register now.
2. I sent you an email telling you I’d removed your photo. Did you not receive it? I’ve removed you. No worries.

Regarding Google: Who knows what they’ll do, but I really doubt they’re going to blacklist all of us because we participated in a cool project. More importantly though: We are the 2000 Bloggers community and we make the rules for our community together.

Basically, the project is only a link farm for those who treat it as a link farm.

If you sit back, idle and unresponsive, and don’t really participate, then you have to contemplate whether or not it’s “worth” taking part. You have to balance the possible risks with the possible benefits. But if you actually participate, well then, my friend, there’s nothing to worry about.

Anyone who thought they could add their photo and link to Tino’s site and magically gain readership is sadly mistaken. Blogging takes work. Blogging takes participation. Blogging is an evolving process. You have to be involved in order to gain from it.

I’m ok with Technorati “ignoring” the 2kB links.
I think that’s fair.

But if google decides it’s a link farm… that’s really no good.

Elaine… I tried to opt out at the http://www.2kbloggers.com site…
but… you have to register to do so… and it won’t let you register.

I sent you an email asking for some help here.
Please let me know if you can help me either get registers – or get opt’d out.

Thanks!

That’s just me. I don’t speak for Doug.

Technorati isn’t punishing bloggers who participate; they simply aren’t recognizing inbound links that stem from other bloggers who posted the photo montage code. They’re recognizing other links. My Technorati rating has only increased over time. It hasn’t decreased as a result of my participation in the project. What has also increased is my readership and now I also have a few new friends.

The photo montage code won’t be available again for bloggers to post on their own blogs until the entire 2000 faces are up. And even then, it will likely be a different code, one that Technorati won’t be troubled with.

Just want to clear up an confusion :)
-Elaine

Darren you were in the 2k list right?
How are you going to deal with it?
Is it worth trying to get removed from all the sites referencing the project?

Most of never meant to “game” or “scheme” anyone. We just like the idea and the image and the community… We aren’t trying to pull a fast one on anyone. It’s not a linkfarm. It’s not a chain letter. Go see for yourself what it really is.

The idea that a blog is valued solely by the number and so-called quality of inbound links is a ridiculous one. Technorati’s BASIC assumption that links = value is wrong, plain and simple.

Yes, there is some value to links, but only if people actually follow them.

The bloggers and the readers of blogs determine a blog’s value, not Technorati’s rating system.

So, are all of us who never considered the idea of the 2000 Bloggers thing becoming “illegal” now in danger of being penalized by Google? i for one never dreamed people would start posting the whole montage to blog posts … I thought it would just be a page like the buy a pixel thing. Man …

This is the first time for me too to see a trolley icon in an Adsense ad. If you hover on it with your mouse , it says “This site accepts Google Checkout”. Interesting!

If you wrtie a wordpress theme, for example, you may include a link at the bottom of it. It’s harmless, but a links a link, and it is noted and indexed accordingly by Technorati.

Would technorati then say for all those links “oh, because you’re linking to content (which, by and large, they aren’t – a lot of these links are to the blog home page, as opposed to a post made about the theme) we’re going to disregard these links.”.

Sure, the 2000 blogs thing was a harmless meme that got out of control (and, selfishly as a non-2000 blogger, I’m glad it’s been disregarded), and chasing Technorati Rank solely is not the best form of SEO, but it does seem to me that what is seen as “valid content” from the eyes of a blogger may not be seen as “valid content” in the eyes of technorati, and that Technorati needs to be quite careful in what it does, or does not see as links – as it could annoy a lot of bloggers.

It’s just my thoughts, I love Technorati (I have a link to one of my pieces of software on there), and I want it to stay strong.