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.
thanks for the mention and link
From an SEO perspective, you should use followable link, so that search engines can attribute the original source.
The only solution would be to block all your content with robot.txt, or even the whole site – that is just not a sensible solution.
Having you content will help to have your site indexed more frequently. Aaron Wall has written that caching frequency is a good indication of trust from the search engines. The more you can encourage search engines to visit, the better.
Andy thanks for the insight, if I understand you correctly you are talking about long term benefits? Short term bigger sites will be always ahead of the game?
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Mark, you welcome.
Actually the benefits are both short and long term.
Encouraging Google to spider your site more frequently should be a high priority, and for Google to know the original source for an article, the link has to be followed.
That is how they work now, who knows in the future.
Thank you Andy. It's a pleasure to have you commenting on my site!
thanks for the mention and link
Andy wrote .. “Encouraging Google to spider your site more frequently should be a high priority” .. I've been telling this to my webbie SEO friends for a long time .. keep those bots coming and moving deep. – And I wonder if it will be even more important for Google rankings now that (according to Matt Cutts) .. G is doing almost daily updates .. every few days as far as I can tell ..
From an SEO perspective, you should use followable link, so that search engines can attribute the original source.
The only solution would be to block all your content with robot.txt, or even the whole site – that is just not a sensible solution.
Having you content will help to have your site indexed more frequently. Aaron Wall has written that caching frequency is a good indication of trust from the search engines. The more you can encourage search engines to visit, the better.
Andy thanks for the insight, if I understand you correctly you are talking about long term benefits? Short term bigger sites will be always ahead of the game?
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Mark, you welcome.
Actually the benefits are both short and long term.
Encouraging Google to spider your site more frequently should be a high priority, and for Google to know the original source for an article, the link has to be followed.
That is how they work now, who knows in the future.
Thank you Andy. It’s a pleasure to have you commenting on my site!
Andy wrote .. “Encouraging Google to spider your site more frequently should be a high priority” .. I’ve been telling this to my webbie SEO friends for a long time .. keep those bots coming and moving deep. – And I wonder if it will be even more important for Google rankings now that (according to Matt Cutts) .. G is doing almost daily updates .. every few days as far as I can tell ..
Hello! The Bumpzee links that have your blog post title in the anchor text are links to your blog post = good.
The Title of the Detail Page has your post title in it, yeah, but no link with the keywords in the anchor point to it.
Accept the Link Love from Bumpzee, send Scott a nice thank you email and get over it :).
Hello! The Bumpzee links that have your blog post title in the anchor text are links to your blog post = good.
The Title of the Detail Page has your post title in it, yeah, but no link with the keywords in the anchor point to it.
Accept the Link Love from Bumpzee, send Scott a nice thank you email and get over it :).
From an “SEO perspective”…
Creating a duplicate copy of your articles title on a more authoritative domain is supposed to help your SEO? Give me a break. I've already shown that bumpzee will outrank me. That isn't debatable.
Isn't the point of “SEO” to rank the highest?
“Encouraging Google to spider your site more frequently should be a high priority”, at the cost of having the encouraging site rank higher? No thanks.
If you are syndicating your content and not ranking for a title search, then you probably need all the links you can get and wouldn't rank for anything in your content anyway.
Oh and a ps. the Squidoo lenses are nearer the top because they were newly discovered a bit later than other sites.
Reviewweb seems to have dropped down quite a few places, I expect that to happen with the articles and Squidoo soon as well.
If you really think syndication is a bad thing, make sure you never ping your blog anywhere.
Bumpzee is much better to “ping” than Technorati, because that link they give back guarantees that long term you will be looked on as the original source.
It is very similar with article marketing – when you first publish your article, sites like EzineArticles.com might out-rank you, but long-term if you include a link in your foot back to the original artcle (not to your root domain), you will out-rank the article sites.
As a real example, search in Google for Lifelong Customers – I rank about 5th, and then there are a stream of article sites with the same article.
A lot depends on your site structure of course.
Andy, and you are talking about syndicated content, whole articles. We are talking here about the same title only, because that's all there is to it.
45n5: Bumpzee will outrank you for a search for your post title, if you have a new site in Google's Sandbox. That should change once Google counts your site 100% without any “penalties”.
Your post title is hopefully backed up by the post content. If your Title is unrelated and the only place where you have your keywords on the page, yeah, Bumpzee will outrank you among a lot of other sites. Pretty much everybody with content relevant to the Keywords. Pretty much.
“Oh and a ps. the Squidoo lenses are nearer the top because they were newly discovered a bit later than other sites.”
They are at the top! That is my point!
With hype products you want to rank TODAY for the term, hence go write at squidoo.
And the difference between pinging weblogs.com and bumpzee is, bumpzee takes your post title and potentially adds many comments (or content) behind that title, they aren't simply an aggregator only.
btw, squidoo has lasting power also. Search for laptop bag on google. Squidoo ranks #1 with a nice affiliate page.
“squidoo has lasting power also”, SOMETIMES, I meant to say.