Things That Make you Go Hmm - Mahalo and Elective Genitoplasty
June 2nd, 2007 by Michael Gray in Case StudyIf you're new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed. Read my top posts or learn more about Michael Gray. Want more frequent updates follow me on Twitter. Thanks for visiting!
The recently updated page from Mahalo is pretty interesting
but what’s with [elective genitoplasty]? What’s even more curious is the #3 result happened to be a Google Hot Trends page from May 25th. Hey Matt, do you really want to be indexing those page in the natural SERP’s? I’d totally get and even endorse some sort of search/history feature for the “hot trends” thing though, as long as it’s non indexable.
Yes Mahalo I get that it’s a “news thing” or a “satire news thing” or both (I can’t really tell at this point) but that term has got to be pretty far down on the list of “important” terms … unless of course you’re just scraping hot terms with no competition looking for a quick traffic hit … because that would be you know like an SEO tactic … something you’d never do
Sphere It
June 2nd, 2007 at 8:02 pm
I registered electivegenitoplasty.com a couple weeks ago for $8 after seeing Drudgereport linking to some article about it. Not only is it likely to be the funniest domain I’ve ever registered, now I have JC pimping the topic on Mahalo. Suh-weet!
June 2nd, 2007 at 8:56 pm
wondered who that was I checked 5 seconds before I posted
June 3rd, 2007 at 5:45 pm
Mahalo for the feedback GWolf!
We look at all the top search terms on the web and try to keep up with them. We look at Yahoo Buzz, Lycos Top 50, the most forwarded stories, Wikipedia’s top page, etc.
We don’t do this for “SEO” reasons we do this because we want to help people. We want to make spam-free, well-organized, human-created guides to topics people are interested in. That’s it.
Mahalo for the feedback and keep checking the Daily SeRP for cool things we’re working on… you can even watch us build our pages in real time!
Jason
June 3rd, 2007 at 7:12 pm
>We look at all the top search terms on the web and try to keep up with them. We look at Yahoo Buzz, Lycos Top 50, the most forwarded stories, Wikipedia’s top page, etc
Smart SEO’s do the same thing don’tcha know …
June 3rd, 2007 at 8:02 pm
thanks for the post
June 5th, 2007 at 10:24 pm
“Help people”
That’s a popular phrase from SEO circa 2000, isn’t it? Jill may have the copyright….