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Then again, once Google gets wind of this scheme, Mahalo's pages will be listed somewhere around, oh, page 50.

by slater 18y ago

pclark 18y ago
I imagine Mahalo has someone at Google that'll ensure they remain relevant.
- mileszs 18y ago
  That sounds like quite the conspiracy. Do you have any evidence, anecdotal or otherwise?
  - pclark 18y ago
    not a conspiracy -- if your entire startup is focused on essentially ensuring your pages are top of google results, and you're a killer networker like the Mahalo CEO, you'll ensure you have someone you can call and whine at if you suddenly get blacklisted. You honestly believe Google would ever blacklist a prominent startup like Mahalo?
    - mileszs 18y ago
      I wasn't offering a counter point or opinion. I don't "honestly believe" anything. I just wanted you to explain your reasoning, adding some more information to your comment. After first read, it sounded like a conspiracy theory. (I think if someone at Mahalo can call someone at Google and get special treatment, that qualifies as a conspiracy by definition.) I don't understand why Calacanis or Mahalo are important enough to warrant such special treatment, but I don't think I'm Mahalo's target audience. I've never visited the site. That's why I was interested in more information. Thanks!
    - pchristensen 18y ago
      "You honestly believe Google would ever blacklist a prominent startup like Mahalo?" Sure. Google's trust and search quality are worth hundreds of billions of dollars. Mahalo is not.
    - trezor 18y ago
      You honestly believe Google would ever blacklist a prominent startup like Mahalo? I must honestly admit I have no idea who Mahalo is, and by reading this headline I automatically assumed it was a spam network. They might be well known and influential to you, but that doesn't automatically translate to the rest of the internet.
  - pclark 18y ago
    >> "Lead investors in Mahalo.com include Sequoia Capital's Michael Moritz, an early investor in Google" nice connection there
jasonmcalacanis 18y ago
Actually, I've talked to search engine companies about syndicating content between blogs and they have said over and over again that there is no issue with this. Everyone has a blog roll, and most blogs have a "WIN Grid" at the bottom (a feature I created at Weblogs, Inc. where at the bottom of engadget/autoblog/joystiq/etc you see the headlines from the other sites). From what I've seen said at conference the search engines only pass a small amount of page rank from these areas so it's not a major deal to syndicate your content around. HackADay is now owned by Mahalo (we didn't sell it to AOL in the WEblogs, Inc. sale for obvious reasons... like hacking TimeWarner cable boxes :-). There is nothing wrong with syndicating headlines between mahalo and HackAday. If we're told there is we will stop. This is just the SEO community upset at me for saying that "seo is BS" back in 1995!
- eddycole 18y ago
  "This is just the SEO community upset at me for saying that "seo is BS" back in 1995!" I think it's more of a case where they are upset at you for gaming them for knowledge and advice, then beating them at their own game, which, by the way, has resulted in me having a tremendous amount of admiration for you... You've 'scaled' SEO and kept the product quality. Kudos, J. Edit: Oh, and it was 2005, not 1995 - since you seem to appreciate people correcting you ;^)

Then again, once Google gets wind of this scheme, Mahalo's pages will be listed somewhere around, oh, page 50.

by slater 18y ago

Then again, once Google gets wind of this scheme, Mahalo's pages will be listed somewhere around, oh, page 50.

pclark 18y ago

I imagine Mahalo has someone at Google that'll ensure they remain relevant.

mileszs 18y ago
That sounds like quite the conspiracy. Do you have any evidence, anecdotal or otherwise?
- pclark 18y ago
  not a conspiracy -- if your entire startup is focused on essentially ensuring your pages are top of google results, and you're a killer networker like the Mahalo CEO, you'll ensure you have someone you can call and whine at if you suddenly get blacklisted. You honestly believe Google would ever blacklist a prominent startup like Mahalo?
  - mileszs 18y ago
    I wasn't offering a counter point or opinion. I don't "honestly believe" anything. I just wanted you to explain your reasoning, adding some more information to your comment. After first read, it sounded like a conspiracy theory. (I think if someone at Mahalo can call someone at Google and get special treatment, that qualifies as a conspiracy by definition.) I don't understand why Calacanis or Mahalo are important enough to warrant such special treatment, but I don't think I'm Mahalo's target audience. I've never visited the site. That's why I was interested in more information. Thanks!
  - pchristensen 18y ago
    "You honestly believe Google would ever blacklist a prominent startup like Mahalo?" Sure. Google's trust and search quality are worth hundreds of billions of dollars. Mahalo is not.
  - trezor 18y ago
    You honestly believe Google would ever blacklist a prominent startup like Mahalo? I must honestly admit I have no idea who Mahalo is, and by reading this headline I automatically assumed it was a spam network. They might be well known and influential to you, but that doesn't automatically translate to the rest of the internet.
- pclark 18y ago
  >> "Lead investors in Mahalo.com include Sequoia Capital's Michael Moritz, an early investor in Google" nice connection there

jasonmcalacanis 18y ago

Actually, I've talked to search engine companies about syndicating content between blogs and they have said over and over again that there is no issue with this. Everyone has a blog roll, and most blogs have a "WIN Grid" at the bottom (a feature I created at Weblogs, Inc. where at the bottom of engadget/autoblog/joystiq/etc you see the headlines from the other sites). From what I've seen said at conference the search engines only pass a small amount of page rank from these areas so it's not a major deal to syndicate your content around. HackADay is now owned by Mahalo (we didn't sell it to AOL in the WEblogs, Inc. sale for obvious reasons... like hacking TimeWarner cable boxes :-). There is nothing wrong with syndicating headlines between mahalo and HackAday. If we're told there is we will stop. This is just the SEO community upset at me for saying that "seo is BS" back in 1995!

eddycole 18y ago
"This is just the SEO community upset at me for saying that "seo is BS" back in 1995!" I think it's more of a case where they are upset at you for gaming them for knowledge and advice, then beating them at their own game, which, by the way, has resulted in me having a tremendous amount of admiration for you... You've 'scaled' SEO and kept the product quality. Kudos, J. Edit: Oh, and it was 2005, not 1995 - since you seem to appreciate people correcting you ;^)