__/ [ Darren Tipton ] on Thursday 01 June 2006 21:24 \__
> On Thu, 01 Jun 2006 20:08:33 GMT, Big Bill <kruse@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote on
> the topic of "Re: basic optimisation and positioning - what to do ?":
>
>>On Thu, 01 Jun 2006 20:35:25 +0100, Darren Tipton
>><newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>
>>>On 30 May 2006 18:12:33 GMT, John Bokma <john@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote on
>>>the
>>>topic of "Re: basic optimisation and positioning - what to do ?":
>>>
>>>>Yup add a feed, and more over, make that feed known to services. All
>>>>time consuming, but you can't expect to have hands full of trafic
>>>>because you have a site.
>>>
>>>John, when you say getting known to "services". Can you elaborate on that?
>>>
>>>Darren
>>
>>RSS distribution services.
>
> Interesting, any examples? Will google it anyway...damn, should get out of
> saying that, will Lycos it...nope, doesn't have the same ring unfortunately
> :-(
Pinging services will have you visible on a variety of sites, which often
rely on the rise of tags (search, tagclouds, etc). They can also invite
link SPAM, but that's a wholly separate issue.
On the positive side of things, pinging can get you temporary links (they
'erode' over time) and they can also bring errand visitors that use
up-to-the-minute tag-based blog/site search (or just titles in the case of
news sites).
As the number of sites that ping grows enormously (blogs account for much
of it, spam accounts for as much as 80% of the overall traffic in some
cases, but filtering is applied by good/better pinging services), the
impact of pinging probably decreases quicker than you would hope; not
linearly either.
Then again, more people discover the merits of search that is driven by
feeds and is thus fairly up-to-the minute. Think Technorati, Google Blog
search, and even, as announced last night, Ask.com, who added a blog
search facility. Everyone seems to join this pool, which replaces crawling
with fresh content and links (owing to RDF and even microformats and
metadata).
Best wishes,
Roy
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