Pimp Your Favicon

Posted by stuart as fun

Got a favicon for your site or blog?

Hop on over to the Pimp My Favicon page and add it to the showcase!

We’re building what will soon become the world’s largest Favicon collection!

Don’t have a Favicon? Pop over and have a look anyway. You can add a Favicon from another site if you like.

So let’s build the world’s largest Favicon collection together!

Google doesn’t really care about spammy links

Posted by stuart as splogs, pagerank, google

First things first - if I read one more blog telling me that spammy links to my site can hurt my rankings, I’m going to knock on all my neighbours doors asking if they have a puppy. When eventually on of them responds in the affirmative, I’m going to storm their house and kill said canine.

If spammy links could hurt a site, we’d all be running around dropping links to our competitors on free-for-all links pages, and nuking them into oblivion.

Now, on to my point:

It’s no secret that the GoogleFairy has been quite busy of late wandering around the web sprinkling her green GoogleDust on sites here and there, taking GoogleDust from some sites, depositing it on others.

Whilst Google exporting PageRank to the toolbar engenders not nearly the hysteria that it once did, you just know that webmasters the world over are secretly checking all their sites, quietly patting themselves on the back for their gains, and bemoaning their losses, despite the disparaging posts they are making in their blogs about the irrelevance of PageRank.

Of course, I was one of those said webmasters. One of the things I do when there’s a toolbar pagerank update, is go through this blog, checking the posts that I know were popular at the time of their writing, and gained a few backlinks in the process.

One internal page I checked had actually gained a PR of 4, the same as the home page. The funny thing is that it was this post. In short, this post was just a list of 5,000 highly searched terms.

The post was an experiment to see how many trackback links I could get from sploggers (people searching through RSS Feeds for specific keywords, then publishing an excerpt of the post, with a link back to the originating site). Yahoo Site Explorer is showing 143 links to this post, each one spammier than the last.

If we’re to take pagerank as google’s measure of authority of a page, it would appear that Google thinks that this page is of a higher authority than some of the excellent blogs I read.

So here’s a tip - If you’re a pagerank whore, or if you’re into selling websites, don’t worry about building out a quality site with quality content and quality backlinks.

Just throw up a post with a shitload of high search volume terms on it, and watch the links roll in.