File under Bandwidth, Blogrank, and Rank-poison...
Video, like "widget fever", reduces blog readership. I noticed last year that putting new "widgets" onto the blog reduced views. That, I believe, is a bandwidth issue. Since a small but important part of the readership is coming from Africa, I think the widgets and video additions are slowing the page load.
I've enjoyed reading and writing posts with video and music embedded. Like the one at bottom... hilarious "switch gag" video. But the post it had been embedded in was one of the most important I wrote that quarter. I was looking for a reference, and found that the post was 25% lower in readership, despite being important. So I had to switch out the video to improve the pagerank / SEO of the profound-er post.
Speaking of SEO and tricks... Someone is posting "spam" comments which have links to google-statistic red flag targets. That link, even in the comments field, might reduce google page rank to this blog. I've chosen to leave some up, because Google is aware of this use of comments to link to negative-page-link farms. I'm taking the chance that loss of page rank is worth preserving the evidence of the activity. Google is aware that comments to blogs can trigger the "nofollow" algorithm. The people leaving the "punish host" comments are trying to say very bland things so that they cannot be tracked.
The "red flags" are innocuous approvable comments, with a link back to a site with zero (google-nuked) pagerank. Not just to low ranking, but to one already tagged as pagerank poison.
Video, like "widget fever", reduces blog readership. I noticed last year that putting new "widgets" onto the blog reduced views. That, I believe, is a bandwidth issue. Since a small but important part of the readership is coming from Africa, I think the widgets and video additions are slowing the page load.
I've enjoyed reading and writing posts with video and music embedded. Like the one at bottom... hilarious "switch gag" video. But the post it had been embedded in was one of the most important I wrote that quarter. I was looking for a reference, and found that the post was 25% lower in readership, despite being important. So I had to switch out the video to improve the pagerank / SEO of the profound-er post.
Speaking of SEO and tricks... Someone is posting "spam" comments which have links to google-statistic red flag targets. That link, even in the comments field, might reduce google page rank to this blog. I've chosen to leave some up, because Google is aware of this use of comments to link to negative-page-link farms. I'm taking the chance that loss of page rank is worth preserving the evidence of the activity. Google is aware that comments to blogs can trigger the "nofollow" algorithm. The people leaving the "punish host" comments are trying to say very bland things so that they cannot be tracked.
The "red flags" are innocuous approvable comments, with a link back to a site with zero (google-nuked) pagerank. Not just to low ranking, but to one already tagged as pagerank poison.
"Interesting site. Your blog is thoughtful. I will watch this important issue"
