Links for Thursday, February 23, 2006

Posted on February 23, 2006 by jeff

Jill Whalen: Buying Text Links.
Google Research Blog – Thanks, Greg.
Rrove – Ran into this at Mashup Camp earlier in the week. Social bookmarking + geographic indexing, along with a nice API.

One thought on “Links for Thursday, February 23, 2006”

alek on February 23, 2006 at 9:48 am said:

One noteworthy thing about Jill’s column about buying text links is she acknowledges off-page factors (i.e. links) as important (some say essential) to ranking high for terms. She has been know as the queen of on-page optimization.

The classic example that “proves” the former is a Google Search for “miserable failure” where the #1 entry is George Bush … and #2 is Michael Moore … both due to zealouts from the respective sides of the political spectrum Googlebombing those sites.