About Steven Aitchison
Technorati has apparently put a stop to Tino’s ‘2000
Bloggers’ project. You can read
their post here. Tino has advised that he took the project
down voluntarily after reading the post. Two posts pointed to the project
as being “Links are currency, and this collage is a counterfeit factory.”. I
think it’s a shame this has happened as it was an interesting project
from my point of view as I was using it as a ‘social
experiment’ and obviously it was bringing in links for me as well.
I can see Technorati’s point of view stating that it was a ‘chain
post’. However, is the whole blogosphere not a ‘hard to find
chain post?’ we are all looking for links and indeed it is the currency
for bloggers. It seems that Tino found a get link quick scheme, and good
on you for doing it.
Tino has taken the project offline so it may look as if Technorati has managed
to stop a huge ‘chain post’ spreading further. However the
number of people linking to this story and to Tino’s blog is a bigger
link farm for Tino, so who really wins?
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And bloggers can be sensitive too! I haven’t read the Technorati post yet but can see their point way out in front. Most likely they are trying to maintain some integrity in light of the potential for “link baiting” or whatever it s going to get called. But I am the fighter type. If it had been my project and that happened to me, I would be ready to rock in publicly maintaining my sincerity!
Neath
Your site has won a Blog of the Day Award (BOTDA)
http://blogofthedayawards.blogspot.com/
Award Code
http://blogofthedayawards.blogspot.com/2006/06/blog-of-day-awards-code-for-winners.html
Thank you,
A scheme or not it was an interesting concept.
AS – http://www.alexshalman.com
Funny how it becomes a scheme as soon as it throws their precious ranking system out of whack. People should be free to link however they want. Isn’t that the point of having a blog?
The truth is, no one was really getting any traffic from those links. It wasn’t changing the dynamics of the ‘blogosphere’, only warping Technorati’s (inaccurate) measurement of it.
Congrats on being a ‘Blog of the Day’, whatever that entails.
Scheme or no scheme, I liked the idea.
Six Links Rule