Thread: Good Neighbor Network

I am in! we are going to do this with our blog network but will be 100% any additional efforts from you guys.
Be like the search engines and they will love you! The "open site effect".

These links were posted in another forum. Although, not mentioned in the blog, I think they point to the importance of creating a good neighborhood.

http://blog.outer-court.com/archive/2005-04-18-n17.html

found via http://superaff.com/archives/2005/0...new-seo-method/

we will be there tooo.....

hey guys wzzz uppp

we are still waiting the new forum addreses and how is it going on?
if you can write us we will be happy...

thanks
Burak

Burak,

howz it crackin, CONGRATS on first page MSN for "chandeliers" talk with ya soon.

STVP

Here is a link to a pdf file pertaining to Googles new trademark (TrustRank) "Combating Web Spam with TrustRank"

http://dbpubs.stanford.edu:8090/pub/2004-17

Here is a quote from the paper that I think clarifies 'good neighbor' as one how takes care in adding links.

"The second technique for trust attenuation, which we call trust splitting, is based on the following observation: the care with which people add links to their pages is often inversely proportional to the number of links on the page. That is, if a good page has only a handful of outlinks, then it is likely that the pointed pages are also good. However, if a good page has hundreds of outlinks, it is more probable that some of them will point to bad pages."

Very good source!
I have found that many of those top schools have studied the subject matters and are providing plenty of material online.
Just searching for terms like these http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=google+edu can produce some interesting results.
Mike

Originally Posted by frobn

I am curious if people here are interested in forming a "Good Neighbor Network"

I am completing the internal linking for broadwaykeys.com site. There are over 2000 listings from the MLS with unique titles, meta descriptions and user friendly urls. Google is scanning the site daily and so far recognizes about 500 of the listings. I am tweaking several queries and sitemaps to have all listings recognized. My sites have recently come out of the Google sandbox with PR4 on many pages. I agree with many here that more is needed besides PR, but PR does give an indication of going in the right direction.

Thus far I have focused on internal linking, my next step is to shift focus to a good neighbor strategy for external linking. Most linking strategies I have reviewed are stuck in the past. Googles recent patent emphasises the process. The how, where and why you link to a particular site is as important as the link itself. Why? At the macro level the internet's natural state is a dynamic one of constant flux and change, web sites at the micro level must evolve similarly. Of course, evolving relevant content along with relevant links is a top priority for natural SEO.

If any one is interested in forming a "Good Neighbor Network," please let me know. I have some new and interesting ideas and would like to hear from others. Please note my definition: A "good neighborhood" is one that imitates the web and evolves dynamically.

frobn...We are in...let us know!

My definition: A "good neighborhood" is one that imitates the web and evolves dynamically. It is now evident that Google has gone beyond page rank and moved to the total "linking process." This means that SEO experts and web masters will find it increasingly difficult to manipulate and game Google for advantage in the SERPs. I don't believe that I can over emphasize that linking is important, but the importance has shifted to the process, the how, when, why and where of linking.

The winners of this shift will be sites that join the process. How? There is no one correct way. Here are some of my thoughts and I would like to hear other ideas.

1. have good content and add or change it often
2. have a mix of local, reciprocal and one-way links, both incoming and outgoing
3. move beyond "let's trade links" to how can we make this a creative and relevant link swap.
4. limit the number of links per page. I believe 5 is optimal and over 10 too many.
5. stay away from thinly veiled link-farms calling themselves directories.
6. create an interplay between links and content

Here is an example of creating an interplay between links and content. In my area of So Florida there is a big market for vacation homes. I am going to write a brief page on vacation homes and invite 5 real estate webmasters in similar areas to add content and links to the page.

Please feel free to add or criticize. This is a process there is no ONE correct way.