Anders Norås' blog

GoAway GoMeme!

The GoMeme 4.0 chain blog designed to fool the Google PageRank to give blogs a better rank than they deserve. The motivation for trying to doing this is that there are too many bloggers and that only an elite group of these are considered relevant in Google search results.
Approximately one year ago the scientologist churches used interlinking to fool the PageRank algorithm. The led Google to take actions to ensure that other relevant results where listed even though they’re rank wasn’t as high. If projects like GoMeme are allowed to go forth, Google might degrade the relevance of blogs. This would be disastrous for all independent bloggers trying to get their message through.

The claim that only elite blogs are considered relevant is wrong. I started this blog about one and a half week ago and already my post about building a JavaScript XmlSerializer is the fifth result when searching for “XmlSerializer” on Google. My post about implementing annotations in JavaScript is at third place when searching for “JavaScript annotations” only surpassed by the W3C Annota specification.^* I think most people would agree that I’m not one of the elite bloggers. At least not yet! ;-)

The key to getting a good PageRank is to write about something that catches other people’s interest and not being part of a clique interlinking each others blogs.

(I have not linked to any GoMeme related resources or blog entries. After all I don’t want to help them out. I reckon this is not much of a problem, you know where to go for information.)

* - [Updated] After checking my refererals from Google I noticed that the post is the 14th most relevant result for "javascript programming". That's a bit over the top, it's a niche article.