http://blog.sellsiusrealestate.com/technology/how-relevant-is-blog-search-sphere-here/2006/04/27/ Sat, 5 Jul 2008 12:22:12 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.3 http://blog.sellsiusrealestate.com/technology/how-relevant-is-blog-search-sphere-here/2006/04/27/#comment-60726 In Defense of 2000 Bloggers and Tino Buntic at sellsius° real estate blog Tue, 06 Feb 2007 20:16:09 +0000 http://blog.sellsiusrealestate.com/technology/how-relevant-is-blog-search-sphere-here/2006/04/27/#comment-60726 [...] One could argue that the traditional, less clever (by clever I mean simple yet powerful) ways of getting inbound links, like creating outbound link lists of other blog posts, are just a subtler form of linkbating. Frankly, where one draws the line on linkbaiting does not concern us a whit. Your blog’s personality will out in the end and 2000 Bloggers won’t change that. Even Greg has pointed out the advantages of self promotion & the importance of outbound links. We have no problem with any of that. There’s even an Ultimate Guide to getting traffic & attracting links. Why then the problem with Tino? If you really want to get philosophical about it, there is a question whether a raw count of inbound links is any measure of blog quality to begin with. It’s often just a link (not a vote), and often a knee-jerk one at that—follow the crowd and link to the blog everyone else is linking to. No one is elected President of Blog Nation because of it anyhoot. Heck, it’s only blogging. [...] […] One could argue that the traditional, less clever (by clever I mean simple yet powerful) ways of getting inbound links, like creating outbound link lists of other blog posts, are just a subtler form of linkbating. Frankly, where one draws the line on linkbaiting does not concern us a whit. Your blog’s personality will out in the end and 2000 Bloggers won’t change that. Even Greg has pointed out the advantages of self promotion & the importance of outbound links. We have no problem with any of that. There’s even an Ultimate Guide to getting traffic & attracting links. Why then the problem with Tino? If you really want to get philosophical about it, there is a question whether a raw count of inbound links is any measure of blog quality to begin with. It’s often just a link (not a vote), and often a knee-jerk one at that—follow the crowd and link to the blog everyone else is linking to. No one is elected President of Blog Nation because of it anyhoot. Heck, it’s only blogging. […]

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