What Happened to Jason Calacanis?
I used to read Jason’s blog all the time. Nowadays I can just get a pulse of what the hotbutton issues are for the day, and visualize what his blog looks like. Link to Mahalo SERP page for this, link to Mahalo SERP page for that.
Right now Jason has 15 articles on the front page of his PR7 blog, calacanis.com. Of those 7 promote the idea of “human search” or link directly to Mahalo. 5 of these exist for no reason other than to link to a Mahalo SERP. Of the remaining posts, 2 are devoted to Jason declaring his “a-list blogger” status and getting his laptop speakers replaced, 1 is promoting his facebook group, 1 is talking about what other people are saying about him, 1 is an insightful post about Google removing paid links and what he would have done about the situation if he were still running Weblogs (interestingly enough he also says all the cross linking on Weblogs blogs was not for SEO), 1 is linking up Brian Alvey’s new comic book site, 1 is a review of smartlinks (talking about how they link to mahalo), and the last is a youtube video of a little kid rapping.
The posts I take issue with are the Mahalo SERPS, I know he is just promoting his new company but it feels a lot like linking strictly for Google’s benefit. I know tons of people read his blog, so I don’t have a problem with his self pronounced ‘a-list blogger’ status, I am glad he is getting replacement speakers and as a leader of a tech company it is important to know what people are saying about you. Funny stuff and linking to your friends is all good too.
I really was into Jason’s blog when he was promoting Weblogs, and in retrospect I guess he hasn’t really changed the blog that much, he has just started a new company I’m not all that interested in. In past days all those links to Mahalo would have been talking about handling his staff of writers, tech problems related to publishing, content on his network, stuff that I am into. Now its all human powered search and I’m sick of it. I know you need PR7 inbound links to drive free traffic to your serps by getting them in google’s serps, but come on! At least if you are going to give yourself all those inbound links take off the “nofollow” on Mahalo’s outbounds!
My 2 cents.
Oh yeah, and when was the last time he mentioned the Knicks?? Just kidding, I know that was a low blow.
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