Comments on: BBC follows through on promise of dofollowed links to bloggers http://www.malcolmcoles.co.uk/blog/bbc-dofollow-bloggers/ Where to find Malcolm Coles, reviews, and tips on how to do things I couldn't do. Mon, 25 Mar 2013 16:22:31 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.4 By: Roo Reynolds http://www.malcolmcoles.co.uk/blog/bbc-dofollow-bloggers/#comment-12484 Roo Reynolds Thu, 09 Sep 2010 09:47:27 +0000 http://www.malcolmcoles.co.uk/blog/?p=4794#comment-12484 Update: It should be fixed now. Also, Dan Taylor has written up a lovely introduction to the project at http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/bbcinternet/2010/09/reflecting_online_buzz_around.html Update: It should be fixed now. Also, Dan Taylor has written up a lovely introduction to the project at http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/bbcinternet/2010/09/reflecting_online_buzz_around.html

]]> By: Malcolm Coles http://www.malcolmcoles.co.uk/blog/bbc-dofollow-bloggers/#comment-12200 Malcolm Coles Wed, 01 Sep 2010 13:13:41 +0000 http://www.malcolmcoles.co.uk/blog/?p=4794#comment-12200 So I put my pitchfork and rowdy Twitter mob back in its box? Cheers! So I put my pitchfork and rowdy Twitter mob back in its box? Cheers!

]]> By: Roo Reynolds http://www.malcolmcoles.co.uk/blog/bbc-dofollow-bloggers/#comment-12198 Roo Reynolds Wed, 01 Sep 2010 12:41:02 +0000 http://www.malcolmcoles.co.uk/blog/?p=4794#comment-12198 Hi again. Phew. As I hoped, it turns out it was an unintentional oversight rather than a sinister plot. As John O' Donovan wrote http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/bbcinternet/2008/11/knowing_when_to_go_1.html last year, the BBC has been improving the way it does external linking. (ooh.. it looks like you commented; your summary in comment 8 on that post shows that you know exactly what I'm talking about here). Essentially, when we link externally we want to get the benefits of knowing how many people visit those links without having them lose the googlejuice. Cleverer people than me have developed some nifty ways of doing that using javascript, but it seems that in those /buzz pages we've accidentally used the old redirect method rather than the new approach. Oops. Definitely not the intention, and we're hoping to fix that (along with some other last minute tweaks) before the actual launch. Hi again. Phew. As I hoped, it turns out it was an unintentional oversight rather than a sinister plot.

As John O' Donovan wrote http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/bbcinternet/2008/11/knowing_when_to_go_1.html last year, the BBC has been improving the way it does external linking. (ooh.. it looks like you commented; your summary in comment 8 on that post shows that you know exactly what I'm talking about here). Essentially, when we link externally we want to get the benefits of knowing how many people visit those links without having them lose the googlejuice. Cleverer people than me have developed some nifty ways of doing that using javascript, but it seems that in those /buzz pages we've accidentally used the old redirect method rather than the new approach. Oops. Definitely not the intention, and we're hoping to fix that (along with some other last minute tweaks) before the actual launch.

]]> By: Malcolm Coles http://www.malcolmcoles.co.uk/blog/bbc-dofollow-bloggers/#comment-12191 Malcolm Coles Wed, 01 Sep 2010 11:52:08 +0000 http://www.malcolmcoles.co.uk/blog/?p=4794#comment-12191 Roo - thanks for the reply. Let me know when you find something out (for now I've stuck an update in the intro saying there's still some work to be done!) Daniel - sorry that delayed comment moderation made you look like a parrot! Roo - thanks for the reply. Let me know when you find something out (for now I've stuck an update in the intro saying there's still some work to be done!)

Daniel - sorry that delayed comment moderation made you look like a parrot!

]]> By: Roo Reynolds http://www.malcolmcoles.co.uk/blog/bbc-dofollow-bloggers/#comment-12190 Roo Reynolds Wed, 01 Sep 2010 11:49:23 +0000 http://www.malcolmcoles.co.uk/blog/?p=4794#comment-12190 Hmm. You're right. Thanks Malcolm. Let me look into it and get back to you. (Obviously getting the process working end to end before making it properly live was a good thing!) Hmm. You're right. Thanks Malcolm. Let me look into it and get back to you. (Obviously getting the process working end to end before making it properly live was a good thing!)

]]> By: Malcolm Coles http://www.malcolmcoles.co.uk/blog/bbc-dofollow-bloggers/#comment-12189 Malcolm Coles Wed, 01 Sep 2010 10:32:07 +0000 http://www.malcolmcoles.co.uk/blog/?p=4794#comment-12189 Thanks for the links. Roo - the links on the page you've linked to are going via some weird 302 redirect - EG the friday 13th link to the Culture and the City blog is actually to: http://www.bbc.co.uk/go/buzztracker/buzz/b00t4pgh/ext/-/http://cultureandthecity.blogspot.com/2010/08/sherlock-update-what-moriarty-did-next.html which redirects to http://cultureandthecity.blogspot.com/2010/08/sherlock-update-what-moriarty-did-next.html via a 302 redirect. A 302 redirect doesn't pass any link value, so you may as well have stuck nofollow on them. Is there a plan to change this? Thanks for the links. Roo - the links on the page you've linked to are going via some weird 302 redirect - EG the friday 13th link to the Culture and the City blog is actually to: http://www.bbc.co.uk/go/buzztracker/buzz/b00t4pgh/ext/-/http://cultureandthecity.blogspot.com/2010/08/sherlock-update-what-moriarty-did-next.html which redirects to http://cultureandthecity.blogspot.com/2010/08/sherlock-update-what-moriarty-did-next.html via a 302 redirect.

A 302 redirect doesn't pass any link value, so you may as well have stuck nofollow on them. Is there a plan to change this?

]]> By: Daniel Bennett http://www.malcolmcoles.co.uk/blog/bbc-dofollow-bloggers/#comment-12188 Daniel Bennett Wed, 01 Sep 2010 09:33:20 +0000 http://www.malcolmcoles.co.uk/blog/?p=4794#comment-12188 Malcolm, Is this the sort of page you are looking for? http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b007v097/buzz (Looks like you can stick '/buzz' after a number of programme urls.) Best, Dan Malcolm,
Is this the sort of page you are looking for?

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b007v097/buzz

(Looks like you can stick '/buzz' after a number of programme urls.)

Best,
Dan

]]> By: Roo Reynolds http://www.malcolmcoles.co.uk/blog/bbc-dofollow-bloggers/#comment-12187 Roo Reynolds Wed, 01 Sep 2010 09:18:22 +0000 http://www.malcolmcoles.co.uk/blog/?p=4794#comment-12187 Hi Malcolm. You're right; it's not quite live yet. Should be launching properly in the next few weeks. When it does, you'll start to see a new module on programme pages which have any buzz. For now, if you want to see what the results are like, try adding /buzz to the end of a programmes URL - e.g. http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00t4pgh/buzz/ Obviously, once it's properly live we'll be linking from programme pages to those /buzz pages so people know they're there. Hi Malcolm. You're right; it's not quite live yet. Should be launching properly in the next few weeks. When it does, you'll start to see a new module on programme pages which have any buzz. For now, if you want to see what the results are like, try adding /buzz to the end of a programmes URL - e.g. http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00t4pgh/buzz/

Obviously, once it's properly live we'll be linking from programme pages to those /buzz pages so people know they're there.

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