Comments on: Irish Blogs indexing our feeds

By: Dermod

Dermod — Thu, 18 May 2006 08:46:57 +0000

I agree that one can't guarantee anything when it comes to the mysteries of PR. But if aggregators demonstrate they are aware of the problem and are doing their best not to divert traffic from individual blog posts to cached duplicates, then I have no beef with them.

BTW - I think its great if an aggregator's category page does well in a search for a particular meme. A category page listing various posts from Irish blogs on a topic is great, and should do very well.

Anyway irishblogs.ie have announced via the Irish Blogs mailing list on Yahoo! that changes are rolling out along the lines discussed in this post, which is great.

By: Bernie

Bernie — Wed, 17 May 2006 20:14:05 +0000

I think a nofollow, noindex policy is the policy that respects all interests concerned. Setting that into the aggies is no guarantee that a blog with lower PR will supercede the higher PR standing of an Irish aggregator for a category or a meme when queried through a major search engine.

By: Dermod

Dermod — Sat, 13 May 2006 14:00:21 +0000

I've added a poll at the Irish Blogs Yahoo! group if anyone would care to express their opinion on this.

By: Robin

Robin — Thu, 11 May 2006 08:03:50 +0000

mmm It irritates me a little alright when the result shows in Google above my own blog.

By: Dermod

Dermod — Thu, 11 May 2006 07:28:48 +0000

To prove my point, if you are on the post page you can see, below the comments, trackbacks to this post. Blogger call them "backlinks" and they use Google Search to find blog posts that reference an URL. If you look at the one from Damien Mulley, entitled "Should IrishBlogs.ie and Journals.ie stop indexing blog posts?" and click on it, it will take you not to Damien's blog... but to irishblogs.ie.

BTW, just to clarify, Damien, journals.ie is not guilty of this, it's only irishblogs.ie that is doing this.