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If I understand correctly, you're saying you'd create an exclusive webring, but the rule to joining is that you have to Disallow: Google, Bing, etc. in your rob
by jart 5y ago
If I understand correctly, you're saying you'd create an exclusive webring, but the rule to joining is that you have to Disallow: Google, Bing, etc. in your robots.txt file. That sounds outrageous, but speaking as a content creator, I wouldn't be giving up much. My blog gets about 3% of its traffic from search engines. I have no idea who these visitors are or what they searched for, since browsers no longer send referral links. If a webring offered me the benefit of positive regularly engaged community, then having my blog part ways with search engines would be a no brainer. That is after all the Facebook model, except tailored for the open web. Believe me when I say that we bloggers are waiting to be rescued.
- floatingatoll 5y agoNo, you can join the webring and be still indexed by Google, but the sitelist of the webring cannot be. That’s all. It prevents Google from leeching off the human curation and not paying a fair market value for it. Given that Google makes billions of dollars a year on pagerank data, webring curators got screwed over pretty hard already once by Google twenty years ago, so no reason to allow it again.
- jart 5y agoSo the webring would use rel="nofollow" hyperlinks? Blog authors might see that as an insult.