Are you affected by the Gov't shutdown or is it just your .gov links?
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With the shutdown came the take down of sites such as http://www.usda.gov/ and even: http://nsa.gov/ (even though http://www.downforeveryoneorjustme.com/nsa.gov says its up UPDATE: now down).
Those .gov links might not be worth as much (pun somewhat intended)
But here comes an actual question as I was thinking about this, I am really curious...
Did your SEO efforts suffer in anyway due to the government shutdown, or is it too early to tell yet?
PS Isn't it also interesting that Google's homepage is choosing to celebrate Yosemite's National Park 123rd anniversary when all National Parks are to be closed in our nation?
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Wow, the work of SEO, some win and some lose, never ceases to amaze me!
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Thanks! Very interesting.... too bad we are reading it.
The upside of this for me is that a couple .gov sites are big competitors of mine. So, I am getting their bounced visitors.
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http://searchengineland.com/what-the-government-shutdown-means-for-gov-seo-173337 relevant article with some thoughts on this from Vanessa Fox
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arghh... I just tried to get updates for my daily blog posts and three of the .gov sites that I use are all down.
Those weasels in Congress should be fired.
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"though - hopefully that doesn't happen" - yea, exactly!
Yea if you happen to have some time, maybe you cand dig something up in there. Thanks Dr. Pete!
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I suspect the impact will primarily be on companies who do business with the government, but it would be interesting to explore the shutdown from a link angle. I suspect it would take a couple of weeks to see much impact, though - hopefully that doesn't happen, but who knows.
I'm thinking about mining the MozCast data to see how .gov's fare over the next few days.
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