links for 2008-05-23

Uses one of my Flickr photos of a vintage radio - and looks very interesting - but alas, my German never got anywhere when I lived in Austria so it is all a mystery to me...

Obviously it is national day of using my photographs on German language blogs, as here is another one with my image of some graffiti that perplexed me in Salzburg

"Would Google soon require us to slap on a nosource (aka nofollow) tag in the META tags so a GoogleBot can decipher the article's validity?"

Andy Beard sticks it to TechCrunch with evidence of how much more traffic they may be losing out on because they don't optimise well for Google "double-listings"

"It does take a little effort, but if you haven't got time to: 1. Read the comments left by your visitors, 2. Check out their sites, 3. Give them feedback and 4. Communicate - why the hell have you got a blog in the first place?"

"*sigh*. You've just given some spammer a load of link love. May want to consider nofollow when linking to subject matter you don't approve of". There is a break out of Sphinn Spam Wars. Always entertaining to watch from the sidelines.

"When Google has the ability to decide what information get presented & valued on the web with absolute & unquestioned authority, because we trust them and they give us free tools and 25GB of GMAIL, we've sold them the internet for pile of magic beans."

"I have compiled a list of what I believe to be the top 100 domains based on estimated monthly visits. These are the companies that have found the success that most SEOs are striving for."