If I give you $20 on Monday, but don’t give you $20 on Tuesday, that is not a “penalty”.
It would be a “penalty” if you dont give me $20 on Tuesday, because Sam was talking about me.
Google and MSN are talking about their bots, and what bothers me about Yahoo’s publication is the following sentence:
In the coming weeks you can expect to see the changes reflected in our web index.
It just doesnt make much sence to me. Bare with me for a second:
Lets say that from now on, Yahoo doesnt take in account ANY links from blogs – however, the top positions on Yahoo for any gambling keyword has been taken already by a website with over 10,000 blog links.
And here is the funky part – now, if those websites have already gathered 10,000 links, and nobody could spam anymore (utopia, that is), where will you get the 10,000 links to your website from, so there could be a change in the index, and you get #1 position??? Now, lets not forget, that Google/MSN/Yahoo are talking ONLY about stop counting links from blogs, and not about giving more weight on the rest of the links. This in turn will make those 10,000 old blog links better, because they are not “marked as untrusted”, respectively, now you have to compete with 10,000 trusted links…
So what change in the index should we expect??? If there is a change in the index expected, it means that there will be something negative for websites which got linked to with “the tag”…
I hope I am wrong…I am yet to see a positive side of this new tag.
There is a tought I’ve been toying with – that with this Google is trying to become the Microsoft of the search engines, but trying to see if they could apply standarts when they feel like it. I wounder what the reaction of w3.com would be…