Strong Reasons Why you should not install SezWho Plugin
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R MAK 23 July, 2008
[ad#ad-2]Bloggers struggling for traffic often opt for Entre Card and install the widget on side bar. Now SezWho and Entre Card have joined hands and launched a WordPress plugin that offer incentives for commenting on other people’s blogs.
The whole concept of Entre Card is so bizarre that it is being termed by Google and Alexa as spam. Alexa does not count Entre Card Droppers as visitors to your blog. There are also inside reports that Google is going to drop ranking of blogs using Entre Card for traffic. It has already stopped counting SezWho links as valid back links……
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Thanks for the heads up! Good info!
Where is it that you get your information…specifically about Entrecard? I ask because you would have to know someone inside google to get this kind of information.
There is also no evidence that Alexa does or does not discount Entrecard visitors.
Can you tell me where you got the information about Google and Alexa?
Alexa information is my own experience… just have a look at the dip my blog took by clicking on Alexa widget.
Google’s one is from various SEO Guru’s who write on this subject. I will do a separate post on it on my Technology blog http://www.ixibo.com/
R Mak,
Jitendra from SezWho here…
There should be no issues with Google related to SezWho..SezWho displays the connections between blogs based on comments and commentets on demand…It does not effect the crawling of the site and as such there should be no penalties associated with it.
Thanks,
Jitendra
To address the issue with the slowness of the blogs, we are adding the option to have local CSS and JS for your sites. This will make sure that site are not dependent on SezWho for loading time. On Blogger, we have had a few issues with the layout and to address it we are implementing a template based solution for it which should be available soon. This will enable full customization.
Also please feel free to send us emails at support@sezwho.com for any slowdowns etc. and we will be happy to investigate. Typically we take about 30ms to load the CSS and about 50ms for the js. The blogger users see the slowdown as UI is shown dynamically, only after most of the page is loaded and depending on the number of widgets that might be slowed down. So this is really a perception issue…The template based approach will fix that problem as well.
Hi, Jitendra,
Nice to have you on my blog. The whole concept of giving incentives for commenting on people’s blog is absurd. This is waste of internet.
You are trying to erode the line between publishers and readers.
That being said. Google does not penalize SezWho but in a way it does by ignoring circular links. some times the crawler assume that it’s link farm as a closed group of people commenting on each other’s blog creating back links. such links are worth nothing.
Also the point of discussion is not Google’s view of SezWho. Its the bug fixing your team has to do. It slows down sites and your company has to come up with a solution. and Fast…
I do understand your Marketing teams concerns about Positive Public Relation Strategy, but there is nothing you can do about bad code but fix it. You are not microsoft for god sake…
I hope you don’t take this article negatively and take it as a positive criticism.
Your blog may have taken a dip but you can’t say for certain that it was because Entrecard.
I use Entrecard as well and when Alexa changed algorithms my rank got slightly better and has been doing slightly better every update. I don’t know what metric they are using now but some blogs have gone down and some up.
@Talen I agree with you, we both don’t have access to alexa algorithm, just our own experiences and experiences of our friends….
There is lots of information in relation to EntreCard and SezWho. Most SEO guru’s advise against them. It’s against Google’s guide lines for webmasters too..(well in a way)
So why take risk?
If that were true then MyBloglog, Blog Catalog, and Technorati would cause problems…not to mention Digg and Stumbleupon.
Personally I don’t care for sezwho at all but Entrecard has been a very useful resource for networking with other blogs.
Yes i agree Extern plugins slow down the speed of the blog !!
I agree since using Sezwho plugin in my wordpress, my site load so turtle hehe
so I unplug it