Link Pimping
One thing the move to WordPress has gotten me is a lot more offers to link. Somehow bloggers – poker more than many – see a link as the way to fame and fortune. SEO wise it may have even made past sense. Not so today.
On the old site where I was paid, the thrust was strictly commercial. They hired a bunch of A-list bloggers and the first thing they did was type in a gross or so of links. That's a manual/annoying bit of labor. Within a day, the edict came down from the summit. LOSE THE LINKS! NOW! Left those A-listers scratching their heads.
I'd earlier been asked to avoid links as much as possible. This doesn't seem beneficial but come to find out...
This guy knows and explains why
The Cliff notes version is you water down things to the point of links being worthless over there in Google-land.
I had a page rank of 2 on my recent site; it didn't transfer here. If I have a bunch of links, that is the divisor of my credibility quotient. So, the links I put up aren't there for quid pro quo. Not sure which but there is either little or no quid or little or no quo.
My link are the short list of people I read and who regularly post – or did. They provide me with enjoyment. The selection is totally empiric along with lazy on my part. For whatever the weird reason on my part, I enjoy the read. It may look like a gift in SEO goodness but it ain't. So, why would you want access to that list to the point of emailing me for an exchange? The benefit is about 4 zero digits to the right of the decimal point.
ADDENDUM:
The other day I mentioned I was avoiding a nasty downswing and was patting myself on the back. Frail human nature at it obvious. I've since experienced a 10%+ downswing. I should have known and kept my big mouth shut.
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Something about pride coming before a fall…
I’ve never monetized my blog, but I’ve thought about it. It almost seems too much of a hassle.
-DrC
I hope my exclusion from your list is purely do to laziness, and the fact that my blog will never provide you any commercial or monetary benefit. But I have cool shoes on it . . .
But you link the husband? Half of his blogs are links to mine.
Seriously, I’m with you on the links . . . some of the links I have now, I don’t read more, and some of the people I read, I’m too lazy to update links for . . . and I never even tried to do mine for profit.
OK, I’ll get around to it… trust me…
I should just link to your blog.
After all you have a much nicer pair…
of shoes
Mode Nasty Old Man = OFF
lol . . . the comment on the hover is awesome . . . and here I thought I only liked you for your sarcasm and brevity of wit.
I am not really working at monetizing. Truth be told it is probably ego. Alexia likes me even if Google doesn’t. Although, even my semi-decent ranking there doesn’t help much. I’m 518,499th best site on the Internet. Wow! Be still my heart.
So far I’ve made $75 off this site. Expenses to date exceed $175. Don’t need your missus to explain its success. But, if money was the reason, I still be on Pokerworks knocking down my grand a month. BTW, the top writer there when I started was making over 5K/mo and says he did better when he move to Full Tilt. The UIGEA had hit and they want to pay him less there.