Comments on: Why Blogs Don’t Rank Well In Google? RSS Readers Mean More Than Backlinks!

By: Carlos

Carlos — Sat, 20 Mar 2010 17:40:37 +0000

Thank you for sharing this with us. I see that Google now puts you at the top of the list for: “Why most blogs don’t rank well”. Well done!
I’ve been blogging my butt off and barely have gotten my blogs to rank well. I’ve optimized them, monetized them, etc. But found the following:

When I post in Blog catalog, Zimbio or other such sites, I get First Page. Some of my articles get “borrowed” by other sites, i.e: Sigmund Freud.com. How did my blog get there? I don’t know. I want nothing to do with Psychology or Psychiatry and yet there it’s indexed under “Inspiration for your day” in Google.

I got a few comments, praises and back links so it all isn’t bad. I bookmarked your site as you have a PR of 3, which is not bad with 173 sites linking in.

Can you visit my blog and critique? just be as kind as possible.

Thanks,

Carlos

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By: Bradley Hart

Bradley Hart — Mon, 05 May 2008 08:43:59 +0000

Hey Chris thanks for the comments over on BlogBoy and the link to here. I am not sure the number of comments one has really affects your pagerank, or atleast not on the low end of the scale it doesn’t seem too. My blogs with the most comments didn’t move at all. This could be because they are both fairly new (both less than a month), but the blog that went from 0 to 4 didn’t have very many comments at all. What does seem to matter most in this latest round of rankings from what I have been able to tell is tagging. Almost everyone I talked to that jumped from 0 to 4 tag the hell out of their posts.

By: moserw

moserw — Sun, 04 May 2008 09:57:19 +0000

Thanks for a good post. Very interesting points raised that have got me thinking about making changes in my blog. Not sure I agree with RSS feeds deciding on ranking though. Still will apply and check out all the points listed here.

By: Affiliate Marketing Guide

Affiliate Marketing Guide — Fri, 18 Apr 2008 16:12:39 +0000

Thanks for the great info!

I have a lot to think about:-)

Cheers!

Joe

By: Ron Passfield

Ron Passfield — Thu, 17 Apr 2008 18:08:22 +0000

Hi Chris – thanks for sending me the link to this post after visiting my Squidoo lens. This is very useful information that I need to act on. About 12 months ago my blog had a PR5 ranking from Google. Then it dropped to PR3, despite more frequent updating. So your post will come in handy to help me lift my blog’s ranking.

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By: Chris Lang

Chris Lang — Tue, 15 Apr 2008 04:06:17 +0000

REGBlogGirl,

You are very right, indescriminent linking degrades your PR and how Google ranks blogs.

However, as the Google patent patent in the quotes above, “Simlarly, the existence of the blog document in a blogroll of a well-known or trusted blogger may also be a positive indication of the quality of the blog document. In this situation, it is assumed that the well-known or trusted blogger would not link to a spamming blogger.”

It is not the number of blogrolls you are in, but the quality of the blogs where you appear in blogrolls. Also the quality of the blogs you link to in your blogroll.

By: REBlogGirl

REBlogGirl — Mon, 14 Apr 2008 15:57:40 +0000

I agree with you. The problem in the real estate industry specifically is that a few hundred Realtors with low PR, low authority blogs are linking to one another forming on huge reciprocal link farm – for which they got penalized in the last 2 PR updates. It was brutal. The other concern is that these huge blogrolls on new sites diminish the percentage of local links to outbound links (which are to low quality sites) and they quickly exceed a normal link number on a home page (sites with 300-400 links on a homepage when they are brand new and in the sandbox get flagged for spam – it’s a fact- SEOmoz has written extensively on the topic). Once a site is older and more authoritative, it can carry far more links on the page ad a lager blogroll. But again, you want to see people linking to authority sites not some other low authority Realtor site. So, my assertion that blogrolls suck is dead on for real estate. I have many other blogs that do have blogrolls – becasue I know how to link wisely. But the link farm that is the real estate blogosphere needs to stop.
Read also: Google slaps real estate blogs with reciprocal linking penalty

here are some posts about what happened to Realtors that were indiscriminately linking:
http://www.rsspieces.com/real-estate-blogs-and-reciprocal-linking-penalties-does-google-hate-your-link-love
http://www.rsspieces.com/google-slaps-real-estate-blogs-in-latest-pagerank-update

By: Jacob Skir

Jacob Skir — Mon, 14 Apr 2008 08:38:19 +0000

Chris,
really I didn’t know they count the number of times my URL appears in conversations.
OK, thanks.