Gavin Pearce wrote:
** Sorry I meant within the BBC related links section specifically. My
bad for not making it clear.
Exactly Brian, I think we are on the same page … my point is why does
the BBC need to make use of JavaScript, or NoFollow tags for links to
“key” sites related to the story in hand?
End-user generated content is a different matter …
The only thing I could think of that made sense, was if the journalists
were being somehow lobbied by googlejuice-crazed SEO's sending dozens of
'helpful' links or faked up stories in the hope some would end up in a
highly ranked sidebar. But this seems implausible at best. BBC
journalists should be pretty good at avoiding flimflam, whether
SEO-inspired or otherwise.
Poking around the SEO websites a bit, I can't find much evidence of
that. A few posts like
http://www.affiliates4u.com/forums/search-engine-strategies/12692-link-bbc-how-best-gain.html
sure, but hardly enough to be worth worrying about.
In my own experiments I've been crawling news.bbc.co.uk and trying to
use the related link sidebar as implicit topic metadata. I reckon this
holds some promise, but now it looks like custom code is needed to deal
with the indirected URLs. Not a huge deal but makes the structure just
that bit more gnarly...
cheers,
Dan
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