A little link love – Week Seventeen
It’s that time again! You truly realize just how quickly time flies by doing these link love posts. As usual I’ve tried to gather a handful of links on various topics that I hope others will find at least somewhat interesting.
- Goodbye Google Page Rank? – Say it isn’t so! Apparently Google has been seriously considering removing the page rank score from their tool bar. Imagine the meltdown from PR junkies all over the blogosphere. We’d all have to find something else to obsess over :-o Search Engine Journal has the full scoop.
- 6 Spanking New Wordpres Plugins – I know I just included Blog About Your Blog in my link love last week, but I couldn’t resist linking them again. These are some pretty shnazzy new plugins I must say. Check out the OneClick install. Nice!
- Are you wasting online real estate? – Steve Snell makes a guest post on Grace’s NeonScent talking about ways in which you can make better use of space on your web site. There’s some very excellent tips and a great link to a Wordpress plugin I wasn’t aware of yet.
Cool plugins! I was thinking of installing the PlugInstaller but the one click install will save me all the hassle! Will download now!
Wow.. my BAYB posts made it to your link love for 2 consecutive weeks. Much appreciated.. :-)
@emila.. if you use Firefox, check out the OneClickInstall Firefox Extension too. It’s very handy. :-)
A One Click Install Plugin? Are you pullin’ my leg!?!
Wow, K really gets around. One of his posts on BYAB made it to my Sunday Samplings this week too!
@Emila: Isn’t Wordpress fun? :D
@K: I couldn’t pass up the plugin post. I’m a plugin junkie…lol :P
@Bush: I’d never do such a thing :-o
@Tish: Hehe…I saw that :P
WordPress plugins, Firefox extensions, Greasemonkey scripts, Stylish styles.. tell me about it. :-)
Gadzooks – I completely missed the whole pulling PR thing! I wonder what it would do to sponsored reviews programs.
Well PageRank doesn’t seem to do what it is supposed to do, I mean what is the point of using it when it obviously isn’t showing what it is supposed to?
The TrustRank approach is really a lot more to keep in mind and will get very messy as by just reading about what it will be based on.
Relevant posts, so if you have a tech blog you can seriously hurt your trustrank by posting about puppies.
Which makes me think about the paid posts and reviews you’ll have to filter out all the potential money jobs that are about other topics.
Hopefully they’ll just make PR more efficient instead.
You’ve been tagged, Mikey! ;)
I do wonder if they will indeed remove PageRank and replace it with something else… It does not offer much value anymore, although in some blog ranking lists the PageRank is still being used as an important factor. I give more value to the Technorati Authority figure as a way of comparison between sites.
Off toppic: Nice to see the Mandigo theme on your site as well. I also have been using it (in the green version that is) for quite some time now :-)
@Bush: It’s a good question. PayPerPost uses that and Alexa. I believe Review Me leans on the PR score as well. The only site I’m personally a member of that doesn’t use the PR score in their blog ranking is Sponsored Reviews, so it wouldn’t really affect them.
@Krillz: I think I’d most hope for a more efficient PR as well. I guess we’ll have to wait and see :)
@Henri: I think the Technorati Authority is pretty important as well. Look at a blog like Engadget that has an authority of nearly 30,000. That’s unreal. I think you’re right that in its current form at least PR doesn’t represent the same sort of value that perhaps it once did.
I’ve seen PR5 blogs that have miserable Alexa and authority rankings. So while an advertiser might get a nice PR5 link on a blog like that, they aren’t going to get their product in front of very many eyes. Place your product on a site that has a bazillion links to it and a high traffic rating and you’re more likely to make a sale instead of just boost your PR. Which is more important?
And yeh Mandigo is pretty sweet isn’t it? :)