Then again, once Google gets wind of this scheme, Mahalo's pages will be listed somewhere around, oh, page 50.
Everyone has a blog roll, and most blogs have a "WIN Grid" at the bottom (a feature I created at Weblogs, Inc. where at the bottom of engadget/autoblog/joystiq/etc you see the headlines from the other sites).
From what I've seen said at conference the search engines only pass a small amount of page rank from these areas so it's not a major deal to syndicate your content around.
HackADay is now owned by Mahalo (we didn't sell it to AOL in the WEblogs, Inc. sale for obvious reasons... like hacking TimeWarner cable boxes :-). There is nothing wrong with syndicating headlines between mahalo and HackAday. If we're told there is we will stop.
This is just the SEO community upset at me for saying that "seo is BS" back in 1995!
I think it's more of a case where they are upset at you for gaming them for knowledge and advice, then beating them at their own game, which, by the way, has resulted in me having a tremendous amount of admiration for you...
You've 'scaled' SEO and kept the product quality. Kudos, J.
Edit: Oh, and it was 2005, not 1995 - since you seem to appreciate people correcting you ;^)
You honestly believe Google would ever blacklist a prominent startup like Mahalo?
I don't understand why Calacanis or Mahalo are important enough to warrant such special treatment, but I don't think I'm Mahalo's target audience. I've never visited the site. That's why I was interested in more information. Thanks!
Sure. Google's trust and search quality are worth hundreds of billions of dollars. Mahalo is not.
I must honestly admit I have no idea who Mahalo is, and by reading this headline I automatically assumed it was a spam network.
They might be well known and influential to you, but that doesn't automatically translate to the rest of the internet.
nice connection there