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Re: The Power Of Google Juice

fredwilson — Thu, 19 Jun 2008 09:17:05 -0000

They are working on it

Re: The Power Of Google Juice

Krtl — Thu, 19 Jun 2008 00:42:26 -0000

that 34.2 can be a lot more, your losing a lot of juice because disqus comments are not indexed look at how much content your readers have created for you. Hopefully disqus gets that going soon.

Re: The Power Of Google Juice

david cushman — Tue, 10 Jun 2008 11:59:32 -0000

If it ain't already been said, the url is an irrelevance - the links are way more important. To move is to disrupt the network of trust you've created and that's a hugely complex web. Not much fun trying to restore all the connections either. I started with a blogspot address precisely because I figured google would look favourably on its own. Now I dare not change it - and clearly not because anyone types the address into the browser.
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best dc

Re: The Power Of Google Juice

gregshove — Tue, 10 Jun 2008 10:08:41 -0000

Fred, transferring google juice is not so easy. We have done what all the search gurus have told us (redirects etc), and we are four months climbing back to our previous position after a name/domain change. Will probably take a total of 6-9 months on the terms we care about to reclaim our page one status. Of course, the longer you wait, the harder it gets.

Re: The Power Of Google Juice

fredwilson — Mon, 09 Jun 2008 09:24:04 -0000

thanks

Re: The Power Of Google Juice

fredwilson — Mon, 09 Jun 2008 09:24:03 -0000

That's awesome

Re: The Power Of Google Juice

John Wesley — Mon, 09 Jun 2008 05:59:34 -0000

One thing I wonder about....with much of the conversation moving to Twitter, FriendFeed, etc. (Services that no-follow links) Will individual voices stop getting the link juice they deserve?

Re: The Power Of Google Juice

John Wesley — Mon, 09 Jun 2008 05:41:28 -0000

My ideal domain is jo.hn. It's Honduras. We'll see if the guy will ever sell.

Re: The Power Of Google Juice

John Wesley — Mon, 09 Jun 2008 05:39:17 -0000

It's too bad you don't own you own name on Google or the juice associated, but it makes sense not to leave. Building an online brand takes a lot of effort and you've done a great job with your blog. You bring a lot humanity and intelligence to the VC world.

All the same, if you were starting today what domain would you use?

Re: The Power Of Google Juice

Peter Van Dijck — Mon, 09 Jun 2008 01:07:08 -0000

If you're in this for 2 more years, ok, but for the long haul? Get control of your domain! Can't blogs.com 301 redirect to your new site? (Which would efficiently transfer the Google juice)?

Re: The Power Of Google Juice

Hashim Warren — Sun, 08 Jun 2008 20:32:11 -0000

Scoble moved his blog in the wrong way.

Here's how to do it the right way: http://blogoscoped.com/arch...

Re: The Power Of Google Juice

Micah Baldwin — Sun, 08 Jun 2008 17:05:04 -0000

3+2s are never ok. The new URL will probably never get indexed and its just not the correct way to do it.

Re: The Power Of Google Juice

Jonathan Schreiber — Sun, 08 Jun 2008 16:48:55 -0000

From a people search perspective, I think google does a horrible job. try www.pipl.com

Re: The Power Of Google Juice

António — Sun, 08 Jun 2008 16:25:02 -0000

what about folks on a blogging platform like tumblr or blogger?
Apparently it can be done with blogger. There are still plenty of host services that don't offer this service, either because users don't care to ask or because there's no need for it.

Btw, people have been talking about 301s... don't know about TypePad but the way it was done in wordpress.com the last time I've checked, a few months ago, was with 302 (Temporary redirects that do not pass google juice). That means that Google sees the original URL as the one carrying all the juice and the latter one as a temporary solution. But that is ok if everyone starts linking the new url for posts published after the change of address (and they will if you do Domain Mapping).

Re: The Power Of Google Juice

Kurt Schrader — Sun, 08 Jun 2008 16:17:17 -0000

It's a somewhat unpredictable thing though. I thought that my Google Juice was pretty good (covered most of the front page of Google when my name was searched for), but then someone with the same name decided to run for Congress.

Now I only have my main blog on the first page of results and even that is falling fast.

Re: The Power Of Google Juice

usedbooksblog — Sun, 08 Jun 2008 15:35:11 -0000

SEO isn't some dark art and at the end of the day search engines are trying to match the best content to a user request. There are some pretty basic ways that folks creating content on the Internet should follow to ensure they're gaining exposure to the world of search.

I'd liken this to good writing in some ways. How many people actually know how to write a good essay? Or even what a topic sentence should be? Or understand that the last sentence of a paragraph should connect (in some way) to the first sentence in the next paragraph.

I know I'm on the fringe because I practice SEO (both at my 'full time' job and as a consultant) but the framework is actually pretty straight forward.

Re: The Power Of Google Juice

Guest — Sun, 08 Jun 2008 15:15:50 -0000

I LOVE Tumblr! I have several blogs over there that I've played with over time (danbuell.net) (bigpapablog.com), etc. I like how easy it is and would love nothing more to keep it but that was the blog that a recent co-worker googled me to and it creeped me out :(

My fear is that a completely unprotected blog might hurt my career... Going to continue to think about it and in the interim at least use Vox to capture the day-to-day so it doesn't get lost...

Re: The Power Of Google Juice

fredwilson — Sun, 08 Jun 2008 14:51:03 -0000

Google and others need to do a better job for them

That's why there is still a ton of room for innovation in search

fred

Re: The Power Of Google Juice

fredwilson — Sun, 08 Jun 2008 14:50:04 -0000

Try tumblr.com

It's a better version of vox

fred

Re: The Power Of Google Juice

Dan Lewis — Sun, 08 Jun 2008 14:46:57 -0000

Sorry for the un-nested reply. I must have erred in my use of Disqus.

Re: The Power Of Google Juice

Dan Lewis — Sun, 08 Jun 2008 14:46:05 -0000

"Its a good thing for those who know how to play the game and a bad thing for those who don't."

That leaves out a huge portion of the population -- those who search but are otherwise not producing much content (if any). It's probably much higher than those of us in our industry think. Even net natives like my college student brother are not included in your sentence; his content generation is shelved on search-sheltered areas like facebook and gmail. His content consumption, however, is nearly 100% new media; that is, he doesn't use a radio or read the newspaper, and even tends to use a slingbox and Hulu more than a standard TV. I'd bet that your sentence captures 5-10% of the searcher market, if that.

It is a good thing for them?

Re: The Power Of Google Juice

fredwilson — Sun, 08 Jun 2008 14:45:04 -0000

hmmm

That's interesting

If I get avc.com, then fredwilson.vc becomes tumblog.avc.com

Sounds right

Fred

Re: The Power Of Google Juice

Guest — Sun, 08 Jun 2008 14:37:18 -0000

I am in a totally different spot. For years I had danbuell.com. I enjoyed when friends, family and web contacts came by but then I started to see competitors, employees, clients and business peers come to my site and I felt "invaded". I never intended my blogging for that group of people, it started to impact what I wrote and I began to edit myself more than I wanted to. At the moment I am trying to move all of my content to Vox where all of my posts are only viewable by neighbors and friends.

I don't really care for this overall. I think Vox is a great tool and I've met some great people there but I am not generally available to the public. I'm not sure if there is a happy middle ground or not but I find that I'll get excited about building up Vox and then I stop for a couple of days because I know it's not what I'm really looking for.

I suppose it will come to me eventually but I've been in a state of limbo for a long time = no fun!

Re: The Power Of Google Juice

fredwilson — Sun, 08 Jun 2008 14:32:03 -0000

Its a good thing for those who know how to play the game and a bad thing for those who don't

Sadly some of our portfolio companies don't even know how to play the search game as well as they should

Its an area we intend to be more agressive with them going forward

Fred

Re: The Power Of Google Juice

Micah Baldwin — Sun, 08 Jun 2008 14:03:35 -0000

Nate, I think your comment is going to get lost in the mix of 301 redirect suggestions from all the helpful SEO types.

The truth is that a blog is more than just the content as you mention. Its the brand, its the search engine visibility, its the comments, its all of it. Even if Fred was able to move his blog to a new url with 301 redirect, it doesnt take affect immediately, and depending on his ability to do it, may never take affect. For example, what about folks on a blogging platform like tumblr or blogger?

The recent discussions around comment ownership is yet another example of the discussion around what are components of a blog and who owns them.