Comments on: 2000 Bloggers – Link Farm?

By: warlock

warlock — Fri, 14 Nov 2008 14:29:24 +0000

yes you are right!!!
i was one of them and now i am sad hat he discontinued the processs!
it brought us together.

By: Jaypee

Jaypee — Thu, 08 Feb 2007 02:52:01 +0000

@David – I totally agree with what you said. This project wasn't intended to be a chain blog, splog or link farm as others are accusing it to be. Like you said, the issues with Technorait & Google was a side effect but it wasn't Tino's intention to game them.

I too joined because it looked fun and cool. This isn't over yet. Someone has taken over the project and put a site for it at 2kbloggers.com

@Teli – I know..I was surprised and disappointed too when I found out that Tino stopped the project.

Regarding the statement that you quoted, Technorati was wrong about that because Tino only required a blog url and photo for everyone who wanted to join. He never asked for a link back or implied any links.

As I mentioned above, someone took over and put up a site just for it.

@baddie – I see..you were right about it then. It's all good, you can wait for another project like this then you can join. :)

By: baddie

baddie — Thu, 08 Feb 2007 00:52:53 +0000

I was about to put up a picture of myself on my profile the other day but I stumbled upon Technorati's post before I was able to do so. Long story short, I didn't sign up because I had a feeling that the whole project won't last long after Technorati's post. Sadly, I was right. Oh well.

By: Teli Adlam

Teli Adlam — Wed, 07 Feb 2007 21:28:56 +0000

I agree with David on this one. It's disappointing that Tino had to shut down because of people's complaints.

However, "join us and use these links" memes such as 2000 Bloggers is really a disservice to rank measurement systems and thus this decision to change our indexing policies in that regard.

While I can understand Technorati's problem, why should Tino be responsible for Technorati's link measurement system? It's Technorati's responsibility to make sure their algorithms can take these things into consideration.

I hope Tino starts this project up again, or another blogger takes over where he left off, because in my opinion he was simply trying to build a community of bloggers. Even if this started out as a link farm project, it evolved into something fun for those participating.

Teli

By: David

David — Wed, 07 Feb 2007 20:41:54 +0000

The 2000 bloggers was clearly not intended to be a link farm or to game anything… well I never saw it that way and I still dont see it that way. Everything that happened with technorati, and/or google ranking to me were a "side effect" of the project. When I first signed up, all I was thinking was that this sound cool, and that this could end up being something more than just a list later on. A community or had just formed, thats all.

People know that this wasnt a ploy to game technorati, the people over at technorati knows this.

I wouldve like to see how this would end up…and for some reason I think it isnt quite over yet.