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From the original New York Times article that Quartz has linkspammed No, this is Linkspan: Link spam is defined as links between pages that are present for
by donohoe 13y ago
From the original New York Times article that Quartz has linkspammed
No, this is Linkspan:
Link spam is defined as links between pages that are present for
reasons other than merit.[9] Link spam takes advantage of
link-based ranking algorithms, which gives websites higher
rankings the more other highly ranked websites link to it.
These techniques also aim at influencing other link-based
ranking techniques such as the HITS algorithm.
Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linkspam#Link_spam http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linkspam#Link_spam
Lets be clear, there is link-spam and then there is writing an original piece based on information from elsewhere.
The NYT article is about 8 questions and answers from a HR person at Google.
The "puzzle" aspect is 1 of those 8 questions.
From that Quartz references that, links directly to the piece and then expands upon it and links out to other relevant and related information.
- jbapple 13y agoI think you should have made it clear in this comment that you work for Quartz.
- donohoe 13y agoI take it for granted so I forget - but I think its spelt out very very clearly in my profile so I don't have to put an * every time I comment.
- wahnfrieden 13y agoI think he meant to use the term "blogspam", which colloquially refers to paraphrasing or copying other content.
- donohoe 13y agoFair enough. I still respectfully disagree. In fact - the NYTimes links back to our article from here: http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/06/20/todays-scuttlebot-the-mesmerized-stare-and-googles-weird-questions/ http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/06/20/todays-scuttlebot-t... So I feel value has been added.
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