Shortly after Mark over at 45n5 raised concern about SEO effects that BumpZee is already having in search engines. Scott the founder of BumpZee, good guy that he is, immediately implemented an outstanding option in your account where you can tell BumpZee to attribute “nofollow” rule to all the links pointing to your blog.
As with any other community driven websites, BumpZee is beginning to rank high in the search engines, its just the nature of community driven websites. Inflow of content on community driven sites (like Digg for example) is much higher than on other websites and therefore these community sites are loved by search engine spiders. So it is very likely that titles for your own posts maybe indexed at BumpZee way before the spider decides to come back to your website. Consequently BumpZee may very well rank highier for the keywords in your title.
While I am enjoin the fact that BumpZee is in the top of my “referrers” and do not mind at all if some of what I have written will be reflected on BumpZee first. If you do, now you have an option to tell BumpZee that all links to your blog should have “nofollow” rules. All you have to do is to login to your account and edit your blog settings.
Also you can consider another option. When editing your blog’s settings at BumpZee you can opt-out from displaying a “snippet” of your post, then only the title will be displayed.
“I honestly wouldn’t use nofollow at Bumpzee – it is helping you.”
Sounds good to me, I think the other way. The beauty of it is there is the option for you to have it your way and me to have it mine.
And the traffic from Bumpzee will come nicely your way, pre-sold, if the comments are nice 🙂 I have some squidoo lenses myself which I created a year ago. The Lens ranks in the top 10, so does the page the lens refers to as source. Great, two spots for me, instead of one. The lens has content that matches (but is not the same). Other lenses don’t rank like that. So if bumpzee ranks together with your page, be glad.
Wow! I did not realize there is a discussion on here.
Carsten, thanks for stopping by. Just clarify, I am happy and thankful that Bumpzee is sending my way some visitors.
Mark, thanks for keeping up this dicussion!
Andy, as always, great to hear your insights!
Serolloah, thanks for stopping by.
No problem Vlad, it’s always a good time 😉
And i still conclude “The beauty of it is there is the option for you to have it your way and me to have it mine.” which was the point of your post…
You might find this link interesting as well
http://www.billhartzer.com/pages/timing-of-link-credit-for-new-links/
The only yardstick I am comparing to on the Day Job Killer results is Andre Chaperon, because he has an aged PR6, compared to my very young domain with PR5. We both had pages up within a few hours of each other on 30th January.
Also don’t forget the long tail, which actually brought in as much traffic for me as specific search.
Andy,
I am glad you have brought up the long tail. I don’t believe that every one realizes that long tail is resposabile for 90%(this site) of all search traffic. I have just started to pay closer attention to long tail and can tell you that some of my articles come up on the first pages of the search engines for keywords that are not in the title. It is rare and they do not keep the position for long but provide some good insights.
For the bigger sites I imagine long tail is resposible for 99.9% for natural search traffic.
Mark, you nailed it. That was exactly my point. Also that is why I believe that BumpZee is turning into a great community.
I think “nofollow” topic surfaced again and became hot after Wikipedia’s change. While intially did not welcome Wikipedia’s move, I think I am changing my mind now.
When it comes to sites like Digg, Plugim and other similar ones, move to “nofollow” my prove to be devastating, imho. While these sites have alot of fresh content, much of that content is submited with hope to be dugged, plugged, bumped to the front page but also with hope to get a link to your site. At least it is my intention.
Unfortunately there are many articles on these social sites that were dugged and plugged and even commented on by users who did not even bother to read the source, and alot of that is happening there. But who cares I got link from them right? The moment Digg or others introduces “nofollow” I am dropping their plugin buttons and anything other link poiting to their site because in my eyes they would loose any credibility.
BUT! If they followed Scott’s example and implemented option for users to chose whethere or not to use “nofollow” maybe it will calm some diggers down over “blog submitions”.
“I believe that BumpZee is turning into a great community”
agreed. Now if I can just get everybody to agree with all my opinions there, lol 😉 Just kidding, I learn also.
Thanks for the link andy.
I have just recently joined the BumpZee do-follow community and I think it's a wonderful idea. I totally agree with Vlad, since sites like Digg if nofollow is used the sites will just see a short term traffic peak and slowly dies away.
But then I guess any traffic is better than no traffic, right?
I have just recently joined the BumpZee do-follow community and I think it’s a wonderful idea. I totally agree with Vlad, since sites like Digg if nofollow is used the sites will just see a short term traffic peak and slowly dies away.
But then I guess any traffic is better than no traffic, right?
Cin97,
Thanks for stopping by. I think one of the things that turned me off from Digg, besides being banned, was the ignorance of some of the members. At BumpZee if no one likes your posts you simply do no receive “bumps”.
Cin97,
Thanks for stopping by. I think one of the things that turned me off from Digg, besides being banned, was the ignorance of some of the members. At BumpZee if no one likes your posts you simply do no receive “bumps”.
I think that this is such a great concept to have do follow. I don't know a lot about bumpzee. Have you used it a lot and if so what benefits do you see from it?
I think that this is such a great concept to have do follow. I don’t know a lot about bumpzee. Have you used it a lot and if so what benefits do you see from it?
yeah… !
Wonder what happen if we all use nofollow on our websites? And how about DMOZ & Yahoo directory.
Have a good one.
yeah… !
Wonder what happen if we all use nofollow on our websites? And how about DMOZ & Yahoo directory.
Have a good one.