Google now considers Midas Oracle as a major blog.

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The Google PageRank of Midas Oracle is now: 6 / 10.

Midas Oracle is the only prediction market blog to reach that high mark.

Previous blog posts by Chris F. Masse:

  • Google Web Search shows that I am the only blogger in the world to talk about “prediction market journalism”.
  • Marginal Revolution vs. Freakonomics vs. Overcoming Bias vs. Midas Oracle
  • InTrade’s US Recession 2008
  • What Jean-Claude Kommer (a patented prediction market gadfly) thinks of Robin Hanson’s conditional prediction markets subsidized by Peter McCluskey
  • “Our prediction markets have not had a very respectable accuracy on anything related to our main competitor.”
  • Subsidizing real-money prediction markets and real-money conditional prediction markets = BULLSHIT IDEA
  • Don’t you love Google Analytics? I can track what Bloomberg spied on, here, yesterday. (Big media spy on us on a daily basis, web stats show.)

12 thoughts on “Google now considers Midas Oracle as a major blog.

  1. Caruso said:

    Well done, 6/10 in an excellent ranking. Of course, Google rank ain’t the Be All Of All Things, but it’s a fine accomplishment.

    My news page, which initially achieved 4/10, has now been demoted to 2. :D

  2. Chris F. Masse said:

    @Caruso: It’s probably because Google thinks that some of the external links you published are adverts.

    If you are paid to publish external links, then you should use the “no follow” rule. That way, Google will sense that they are adverts but that they are not published by you in order to game their PageRank system.

    Go to my “links” page and spot the Matt Cutts blog and the Search Engine Land blog. Search for “no follow”. They’ll explain.

  3. Caruso said:

    All my links are non-commercial,  including the casino links. My site may be one hundred percent unique in this regard.

    There are a handful of casino sites, covered with yucky affiliate links all over the place, with Google rank 5. There is one casino which has a Google rank of 6. Is it as simple as just using the nofollow attribute? I’ve always believed it was to do with the amount of “big” sites that link to you, amongst other things like age,good SEO etc etc.

  4. Chris F. Masse said:

    @Caruso: If you publish adverts in the form of external links to casinos or exchanges, without the “no follow” stuff, Google will think that your advertisers are trying to fool their PageRank system and will punish *you* —not your advertisers.

  5. Caruso said:

    Hmm. So any gambling operation hard link, even without any affiliate code (and all mine are without affiliate code) are basically injurious to me?

    So: casino / sport book / exchange links need to “nofollow” attribute. What about, for example, links to bodies like the LGA and the AGCC, or any other basically non bet-taking but otherwise gambling-orientated, or even NON gambling-orientated, site? How do we know what links the search engines regard as punishable and those which they don’t? Or is it just casinos, sportsbooks and betting exchanges?

    To put it into practice: both the articles I wrote for MO are full of links all over the place – I am link-happy. None of the links are to betting sites, but they range from totally non gambling-related sites to gambling-related and gambling advocacy sites. Are any of these links “injurious” to Midas Oracle?

  6. Chris F. Masse said:

    @Caruso: The Google policy is that if they find out that a website publishes external links that are in fact adverts AND they don’t have “no follow”, then Google will punish this website.

    But that was just an hypothesis regarding your downgrading from 4 to 2.

    It’s just an hypothesis. Maybe I am wrong.

    As I said, for more, go read Matt Cutts or Search Engine Land.

  7. Caruso said:

    Well done, 6/10 in an excellent ranking. Of course, Google rank ain’t the Be All Of All Things, but it’s a fine accomplishment.

    My news page, which initially achieved 4/10, has now been demoted to 2. :D

  8. Chris F. Masse said:

    @Caruso: It’s probably because Google thinks that some of the external links you published are adverts.

    If you are paid to publish external links, then you should use the “no follow” rule. That way, Google will sense that they are adverts but that they are not published by you in order to game their PageRank system.

    Go to my “links” page and spot the Matt Cutts blog and the Search Engine Land blog. Search for “no follow”. They’ll explain.

  9. Caruso said:

    All my links are non-commercial,  including the casino links. My site may be one hundred percent unique in this regard.

    There are a handful of casino sites, covered with yucky affiliate links all over the place, with Google rank 5. There is one casino which has a Google rank of 6. Is it as simple as just using the nofollow attribute? I’ve always believed it was to do with the amount of “big” sites that link to you, amongst other things like age,good SEO etc etc.

  10. Chris F. Masse said:

    @Caruso: If you publish adverts in the form of external links to casinos or exchanges, without the “no follow” stuff, Google will think that your advertisers are trying to fool their PageRank system and will punish *you* —not your advertisers.

  11. Caruso said:

    Hmm. So any gambling operation hard link, even without any affiliate code (and all mine are without affiliate code) are basically injurious to me?

    So: casino / sport book / exchange links need to “nofollow” attribute. What about, for example, links to bodies like the LGA and the AGCC, or any other basically non bet-taking but otherwise gambling-orientated, or even NON gambling-orientated, site? How do we know what links the search engines regard as punishable and those which they don’t? Or is it just casinos, sportsbooks and betting exchanges?

    To put it into practice: both the articles I wrote for MO are full of links all over the place – I am link-happy. None of the links are to betting sites, but they range from totally non gambling-related sites to gambling-related and gambling advocacy sites. Are any of these links “injurious” to Midas Oracle?

  12. Chris F. Masse said:

    @Caruso: The Google policy is that if they find out that a website publishes external links that are in fact adverts AND they don’t have “no follow”, then Google will punish this website.

    But that was just an hypothesis regarding your downgrading from 4 to 2.

    It’s just an hypothesis. Maybe I am wrong.

    As I said, for more, go read Matt Cutts or Search Engine Land.

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