Weblogs Inc Network No Longer Posting Title Links
January 1st, 2006 - One CommentI noticed something last week and thought I would talk about it a little bit here. The gang over at Weblogs Inc. have changed the way they are doing things on their blog network. There used to be links to 10 or 12 blogs at the bottom of each page along with links to the last 5 posts for each blog. From an SEO standpoint, it was a great play, but this has changed in the past couple of weeks. I am not sure what happened, but I noticed over a week ago, that the links were removed from all of the blogs that I checked (about 20). I am not sure what the reasoning was for removing the links (as each blog is still linked to in the sidebar of all of the blogs in their network) and I have browsed and searched around on the main blog as well as on some of the larger blogs like Engadget. I wonder if someone at one of the SEs said something to them about posting all of these links on their sites.
The “WIN Grid” (WIN=Weblogs, Inc. Network) will be back on the bottom of the pages.
We just did a major upgrade (added 30 servers!) and we’re rebuilding a bunch of stuff on the Blogsmith software.
No SEs have a problem with syndicating headlines–CNN, AOL, Yahoo, etc. all syndicate headlines… it’s part of the business and we don’t do it for SE optimization reasons. We do it to expose folks to related content.