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MetaFilter's real problem is that on a web that is currently built around sharing, its audience shuns social media. I've never seen a MetaFilter link in any of
by onewaystreet 12y ago
MetaFilter's real problem is that on a web that is currently built around sharing, its audience shuns social media. I've never seen a MetaFilter link in any of my feeds. I've never seen a story on one of the major blogs use MetaFilter as a source (expect for this Google story).
- phillmv 12y agoThey do, and I see it pretty often - but /via attribution has died out.
- adventured 12y agoThey appear to be making numerous basic SEO mistakes. For example their links don't have nofollow on them, when sites such as Stack Overflow (Rap Genius, Quora, etc) do. That one change alone would likely boost their rankings significantly.
- pygy_ 12y agoThat's completely backwards, though. The Page rank algorithm depends on the existence legitimate links, and MetaFilter has a high signal to noise ratio. By inciting people to "nofollow" valid links to improve their own ranking, Google is damaging its index.
- adventured 12y agoI agree it's backwards / ridiculous, but that is apparently how Google prefers links to be treated now. It clearly breaks the notion of good will value sharing between sites. It seems these days all the best ranking sites are careful to nofollow across the board. I used to see claims that Google gave sites a modest benefit for sharing pagerank via links to other high quality sites or similar sites. That doesn't seem to hold up under scrutiny when you look at the sites that have done well by optimizing SEO.