Aug 18 2008
Hey, I have an idea!
I wonder how often I get the feeling that I have come up with a brilliant idea about something only to find out that someone already did it?
This morning I phoned martin and discussed the rel=nofollow thing that he had been telling me about lately. I told him that we could set up a project to make the blogosphere become more generous with link cred for great comments on blog posts by removing the rel=nofollow.
“That’s a great idea, do it!” he said. I went looking for a suitable domain and one that could be suitable was yesfollow for example. .com, .net and .org were all taken and I checked what was on yesfollow.org and it was of course the exact same thing we were about to do.
Another idea already made. That happens a lot doesn’t it?
It is still a great idea however, so I reckon we’ll join that movement instead of creating our own.
Actually, I think we already have, since we already are using the Nofollow Free plugin from Michele Marcucci which removes the nofollow. More about that here as well.
Now I’m off to think up another great idea.
August 19th, 2008 at 9:13 am
It happens to me all the time! A few years ago it would put me off doing a new project completely, I even stopped an almost finished service when I found out that there where others doing the same thing(it was a bookmarking service, had missed del.icio.us and others until then). Now it’s different. I’ve realized that it doesn’t always matter. Because even if you are unique when you begin or launch, you will not be for very long anyway. Especially if the project is successful.
If you continue to do your own thing, without looking too much at what other people are doing you will still end up with something that is different. Or you may take what already exists and make it better. That said, I think it’s better to postpone the yesfollow idea until we know more about yesfollow.org. What makes me curious is that it seems to have been around since 2006 and yet there are not many supporters, or am I missing something? Where are the links to the supporting sites? What we were going to do was not just another blog.
August 19th, 2008 at 10:28 am
I know it wasn’t exactly what we had in mind but almost.
On the other hand, If we just would go on and do it, it would still be great thing (and our thing) and it wouldn’t scar the Internet.
I still like the idea and could put it together in an evening (optimistical time estimate).
Say ‘when’ and I’ll do it.
January 29th, 2009 at 5:03 pm
i’m arabian and i feel sad because that arabian sources and articles about seo is too poor .. so i hope that everybody talkes about seo in english will use an easy english .. like that post above