I think Blue Dot may have been hurt by this latest PageRank adjustment. I looks like our PageRanks have gone down 2 points in some cases.

/Front - PR4 (was PR6, I think)
/Buzz/Video - PR4 (was PR6)
/users/mohit - PR3 (was PR5)

I would expect to see a big decline in our search traffic based on this change. It's not really detectable yet; though traffic volume yesterday was down 7% from one week ago.

Quoted: A major Google page rank update has punished large scale blog link farms and similar sites indulging in heavy cross linking by dramatically ...

Trying out Google custom search across the public content of Blue Dot.

I finally settled on just searching directly for all perma-link (i.e., just raw dots). Other searches that show a mixture of user's tag pages were not very compelling and difficult to scan for meaningful results.

Since Google applies page ranking to their results, search Google for Blue Dot dots, can be more productive (if not as pretty) as searching directly in Blue Dot.

Would you like your Blue Dot profile page, treated like a "Blog" by Google? For many of us, Blue Dot is a blogging tool, but Google Blog search is not aware of it.

You can add your Blue Dot profile to this page, to ask Google to include your site in their blog search (you may have to do this periodically to get them to update your blog ... perhaps this is a feature we should do automatically for Blue Dot users?)

Just type in your profile:

http://bluedot.us/users/USERNAME

Or, if you want to just have your dots that are tagged a certain way added, enter in:

http://bluedot.us/users/USERNAME/tag/YOURTAG

BlueDot is getting noticed in the SEO community. Google is crawling us heavily, so it's no wonder that posts are helping get sites into the google search engine more quickly than just submitting to google.

Quoted: Many people have reported that their sites got indexed if they have shared the content of their website on the sites like www.digg.com and www.bluedot.us. ...

Findory Founder, Greg Linden, stopped using Google AdSense because of poor targetting. His explanation has me thinking that they were trying to use pages with too little text on them (something we have seen also). My hope is that our new ads will be much better targetted with a larger corpus of text for Google to work with. We'll see....

Here's a search where Blue Dot is #2 result - YouTube (the source) of the video, is the #3 result!

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This video had a REALLY HIGH search result in google - the dot on Blue Dot was HIGHER than the search result directly on YouTube! Oh yeah, baby!

Pretty funny video.

Quoted: Title says it all.