Sebastian's Pamphlets: LZZR Linking™

Friday, July 06, 2007

In why it is a good thing to link out loud LZZR explains a nicely designed method to accelerate the power of inbound links. Unfortunately this technique involves Yahoo! Pipes, which is evil. Certainly that's a nice tool to compose feeds, but Yahoo! Pipes automatically inserts the evil nofollow crap. Hence using Pipes' feed output to amplify links faults caused by the auto-nofollow. I'm sure LZZR can replace this component with ease, if that's not done already.

At Friday, July 06, 2007, LZZR SEO said…

You are quite right about Pipes and you know how unhappy I am with Yahoo censorship issues (they bloody blocked my feed from LZZR.com on Pipes) and Yahoo Pipe's feed output was used rather as a proof of concept. Needless to say though that Pipes are not completely useless since they can be used as a tool for mashing up results from Google and Technorati and possibly other sources (wait till I find them). Within pipes you can eliminate duplicates based on URL thus getting a cleaner feed which can be used subsequently elsewhere.
I am sure you've noticed that nofollow is the weakest point of my system and we both know why ;-)

linking out loud :-) the point is taken :-) I'll be more careful next time
At Friday, July 06, 2007, Sebastian said…

Yeah, Pipes is a great tool. Just the nofollow insanity makes it evil. However, it's quite easy to create a filter sucking the Pipes output and removing the nofollow crap to output a clean feed. Having such a layer under full control makes it easier to replace 3rd party components too.

Linking out loud is a great concept. I believe that 'LOL' makes friends and attracts natural inbound links, hence helps with search engine rankings. In my linking tutorial I've explained why 'LOL' works.