Comments on: Widgetbaiting in a Post-Widgetbait Google

By: Lassar

Lassar — Tue, 23 Sep 2008 19:45:34 +0000

And what is to prevent a competitor from using widgetbait against you.

You could find your google rankings dropping to zero due to a competitor’s SEO attack.

By: Dan

Dan — Mon, 07 Jul 2008 01:28:57 +0000

Did anyone notice that google unpunished the domain in question…the original site mingle2.com(search google for online dating)….nobody does their damn homework… Stop cowering to the omnipotent google, test things for yourself, and see how far you can push the boundries, its what makes the web (and search engines) better.

By: Daniel

Daniel — Sat, 05 Jul 2008 07:25:53 +0000

Hey,

I just wanted to say that your articles have opened up a whole new area of SEO that I never thought existed. Thank you for making these articles!

By: LGTim

LGTim — Wed, 25 Jun 2008 08:30:00 +0000

One point to note with the SEOmoz story is that google didn’t put the smackdown on JustSayHi until their widgets started pointing to other sites as well, with anchor text like “pay day loans” and other very competitive key words. When they relauched the site and did the widgets again for “online dating” etc, google punished them again. The second penalty is the dodgy one for me…

I agree that it seems to be a case of “we’ve no problems with widgets. Unless they do really really well.” Problem is, that’s a bit of a hazy description – I think Google needs to come up with a clearer definition of this, and that they are avoiding the issue.

Great stuff as always, XMCP – your blog is great reading, even for a techtard white hat like me…

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By: KeyboardJunkie

KeyboardJunkie — Tue, 24 Jun 2008 13:32:14 +0000

So, it sounds a bit hazzy as to what would be allowed and what wouldn’t.

I found 1 site which is using widgets to hide its paid links, but then the widget looks like it could pass as something of value to users.

Check out this list and let me know what you think.

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By: Widgetbaiting

Widgetbaiting — Tue, 24 Jun 2008 13:15:41 +0000

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By: Jam

Jam — Tue, 24 Jun 2008 01:54:09 +0000

Do widgets have to be server side to be used for SEO?

Cheesr
J

By: admin

admin — Mon, 23 Jun 2008 23:58:54 +0000

@Mark: Read the seomoz article. Their words do not really match their actions.
@clueless: Not sure, but it appears to be just them using Google checkout.

By: clueless

clueless — Mon, 23 Jun 2008 23:48:07 +0000

Hi,
This is little off topic but had been trying to figure out the following.

If you search for [dashboard for quickbooks] in google (without the brackets), you will see a result showing shopping entries matching the search keywords.

Can you shed some light on how this is achieved?

First I thought these results are from google base but they are not.

Thanks