I've noticed that most of the Fundie/Online "Discernment" ministry/hate 'bloggers' have this strange tendency to have several (3/4) blogs which simply serve to post links to their other blogs... what is that all about??? I'm sure it must be something to do with Google ratings, Technorati standing or someway of getting themselves more Net kudos than they actually deserve?... but it seems somewhat unethical, anyone got any thoughts?
PS. I put the word "Bloggers" in inverted commas because IMHO if you refuse to allow responses through comments, then it's not really a true 'blog' just of a series of polemics/rants... and 'I'm not going to post links, 'cos you probably know the ones I mean.
i think it is pretty much that.. trying to notch up some google points.. but i think google catches onto that kinda thing quite quickly..
In terms of subverting it it , i guess interacting with good engagements and "donating" links to what we consider worthwhile is about the best thing to do..
Posted by: neal | 07/09/2008 at 16:21
Agreed, the strategies are used to game the search engines. And I agree with your conclusion that they are not blogs but come close to hate speech in a lot of ways--certainly lots of their words are unethical. I made the mistake of linking once to one of their sites as an example of nuttiness and felt guilty that I had given them an audience.
Posted by: Kai | 09/09/2008 at 20:29