BaldyRegistered Users, Super ModeratorsPosts: 2,853moderator
edited August 3, 2004
It was a little bit depressing... We got honorable mention for the best Nigritude Ultramarine pages, but we weren't close to winning the highest relevenacy.
That's not what's depressing. What was is the way the highest-placed sites did it, by hiring optimization firms who created farms of fictional pages that linked back to their page. It's just another form of spamming and I had hoped Google's algorithm wouldn't fall for it so easily.
But, we learned some things from the contest — legitimate things we can apply. So now smugmug is the #4 result if you search on photo sharing, ahead of Yahoo, Ofoto, and Shutterfly. Cool.
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Say what?
Catapultam habeo. Nisi pecuniam omnem mihi dabis, ad caput tuum saxum immane mittam
http://www.mcneel.com/users/jb/foghorn/ill_shut_up.au
Unfortunately, forum pages carry less weight in Google's scheme than forum pages do.
We're on page 2 in A9's results now.
#8 on the list, time to go for #1.
Cool. Just yesterday I was wondering if the competition had ended.
Catapultam habeo. Nisi pecuniam omnem mihi dabis, ad caput tuum saxum immane mittam
http://www.mcneel.com/users/jb/foghorn/ill_shut_up.au
Ended July 8th.
More here.
Catapultam habeo. Nisi pecuniam omnem mihi dabis, ad caput tuum saxum immane mittam
http://www.mcneel.com/users/jb/foghorn/ill_shut_up.au
That's not what's depressing. What was is the way the highest-placed sites did it, by hiring optimization firms who created farms of fictional pages that linked back to their page. It's just another form of spamming and I had hoped Google's algorithm wouldn't fall for it so easily.
But, we learned some things from the contest — legitimate things we can apply. So now smugmug is the #4 result if you search on photo sharing, ahead of Yahoo, Ofoto, and Shutterfly. Cool.