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Friday, November 23, 2007
re="nofollow SucKs"
The NoFollow link attribute (rel=”nofollow”) was originally created to block search engines from following links in blog comments, due to the amount of blog comment spamming.
The theory is that if spammers are spamming in blog comments to get better SEO and anchored links for their sites, NoFollow would render such spam useless. Problem is, spammers still spam.
Now, NoFollow has been adopted beyond blog comments. Wikipedia is now using NoFollow for external links and Google recommends that paid links use a NoFollow attribute.
Here are 13 reasons why NoFollow is a failure.
1. NoFollow = NoWorky. Using NoFollow in blog comments, the original intent of the tag, does nothing to discourage comment spammers. Using other anti-spamming tools such as question, math and plugins such as Akismet and SpamKarma for Wordpress is much more effective.
2. If a blogger moderates comments, there is no need for a NoFollow attribute. “Everyone who passes a human inspection should get the link love.”
3. Since the use of NoFollow in comments on Wordpress blogs is default, many bloggers do not even realize they are using NoFollow.
4. NoFollow=NoValue. Why use NoFollow on sites, text ads, and blogs if there is no value in terms of search engine indexing? What if they made the Yahoo! directory nofollow? Would anyone continue to purchase listings? Obviously the value of that directory would be zero of nofollow tags were applied to the listings.
5. Linking to someone with a NoFollow attribute is a sign of not trusting them. It’s like reaching to shake someone’s hand, but stopping to put on a pair of latex gloves.
6. No Follow sucks because the search engines (particularly Google) can’t make up their mind about when and how it should be used, thus causing confusion among inexperienced webmasters who do STUPID things like No Follow ALL outgoing links from their website to “protect the site from page rank leakage” and other silly ideas.
7. No-follow is a poor search engine’s solution to conceal its own failure to rank websites appropriately. What’s next, No-linking?
Search engines should be able to develop a method of identifying and devaluing links to spam sites which were placed in blog comments. Why should everyone who posts in blog comments suffer from the actions of a greedy few spammers.
8. Commenting on a blog post is the same as adding more relevant to that blog post. A thought provoking one sentence post can lead to pages of comments. If someone takes the time to help build your site’s content via posting comments, it is professional courtesy to give them some link love.
9. Putting NoFollow on Wikipedia is like putting Grey Poupon on a Spam sandwich.(Or like putting perfume on a pig.)
Taking Wikipedia to task over nofollow is fun but ultimately you need to take them to task for why they implemented nofollow in the first place - that is, to prevent spam. Which in turn means that the way Wikipedia was setup was flawed because it opened itself up to easy spamming.
Therefore, instead of just letting Wikipedia take the easy way out (because ultimately it’s an important resource for many people and replacing it would be tough), they should look at ways into changing their systems so they are not as open to spamming any more.
10. Text link advertisements which use a NoFollow make no sense. If you want to spread your Google juice, why use a link-condom?
11. Even Wordpress founder Matt Mullenweg says NoFollow was a failure; “In theory this should work perfectly, but in practice although all major blogging tools did this two years ago and comment and trackback spam is still 100 times worse now. In hindsight, I don’t think nofollow had much of an effect, though I’m still glad we tried it.”
12. Search Engines follow NoFollow. Yahoo has been known to count NoFollow links as backlinks in SiteExplorer. So, if you’re goal in comment spamming to to build backlinks, which builds your site’s value in terms of selling advertising (TLA, ReviewMe, SEOmoz’s PageStrength and other metrics programs use Yahoo Backlinks as valued criteria), NoFollow is useless.
13. NoFollow Sucks. Check It!
What are your thoughts on NoFollow? Do you support the use of NoFollow in Wikipedia or as a way to identify paid links?
Have more reasons why NoFollow is a failure? Please feel free to share them below.
The theory is that if spammers are spamming in blog comments to get better SEO and anchored links for their sites, NoFollow would render such spam useless. Problem is, spammers still spam.
Now, NoFollow has been adopted beyond blog comments. Wikipedia is now using NoFollow for external links and Google recommends that paid links use a NoFollow attribute.
Here are 13 reasons why NoFollow is a failure.
1. NoFollow = NoWorky. Using NoFollow in blog comments, the original intent of the tag, does nothing to discourage comment spammers. Using other anti-spamming tools such as question, math and plugins such as Akismet and SpamKarma for Wordpress is much more effective.
2. If a blogger moderates comments, there is no need for a NoFollow attribute. “Everyone who passes a human inspection should get the link love.”
3. Since the use of NoFollow in comments on Wordpress blogs is default, many bloggers do not even realize they are using NoFollow.
4. NoFollow=NoValue. Why use NoFollow on sites, text ads, and blogs if there is no value in terms of search engine indexing? What if they made the Yahoo! directory nofollow? Would anyone continue to purchase listings? Obviously the value of that directory would be zero of nofollow tags were applied to the listings.
5. Linking to someone with a NoFollow attribute is a sign of not trusting them. It’s like reaching to shake someone’s hand, but stopping to put on a pair of latex gloves.
6. No Follow sucks because the search engines (particularly Google) can’t make up their mind about when and how it should be used, thus causing confusion among inexperienced webmasters who do STUPID things like No Follow ALL outgoing links from their website to “protect the site from page rank leakage” and other silly ideas.
7. No-follow is a poor search engine’s solution to conceal its own failure to rank websites appropriately. What’s next, No-linking?
Search engines should be able to develop a method of identifying and devaluing links to spam sites which were placed in blog comments. Why should everyone who posts in blog comments suffer from the actions of a greedy few spammers.
8. Commenting on a blog post is the same as adding more relevant to that blog post. A thought provoking one sentence post can lead to pages of comments. If someone takes the time to help build your site’s content via posting comments, it is professional courtesy to give them some link love.
9. Putting NoFollow on Wikipedia is like putting Grey Poupon on a Spam sandwich.(Or like putting perfume on a pig.)
Taking Wikipedia to task over nofollow is fun but ultimately you need to take them to task for why they implemented nofollow in the first place - that is, to prevent spam. Which in turn means that the way Wikipedia was setup was flawed because it opened itself up to easy spamming.
Therefore, instead of just letting Wikipedia take the easy way out (because ultimately it’s an important resource for many people and replacing it would be tough), they should look at ways into changing their systems so they are not as open to spamming any more.
10. Text link advertisements which use a NoFollow make no sense. If you want to spread your Google juice, why use a link-condom?
11. Even Wordpress founder Matt Mullenweg says NoFollow was a failure; “In theory this should work perfectly, but in practice although all major blogging tools did this two years ago and comment and trackback spam is still 100 times worse now. In hindsight, I don’t think nofollow had much of an effect, though I’m still glad we tried it.”
12. Search Engines follow NoFollow. Yahoo has been known to count NoFollow links as backlinks in SiteExplorer. So, if you’re goal in comment spamming to to build backlinks, which builds your site’s value in terms of selling advertising (TLA, ReviewMe, SEOmoz’s PageStrength and other metrics programs use Yahoo Backlinks as valued criteria), NoFollow is useless.
13. NoFollow Sucks. Check It!
What are your thoughts on NoFollow? Do you support the use of NoFollow in Wikipedia or as a way to identify paid links?
Have more reasons why NoFollow is a failure? Please feel free to share them below.
Monday, November 19, 2007
Exchanging links...its FREE
A bright idea is to exchange links. If you would like to post your link on my page for free, exchange links with me and I'll place your link on my page while you place my link on your page...I think its a great idea and its all FREE...
Friday, November 16, 2007
Should I have to put rel="nofollow" on the link to my comments page?
I have another blog to announce it's from Wordpress and my user name, (if you are interested in searching for me) is meemoe, and here is a link that will take you directly to my blog. meemoe's Wordpress Blog
Back to the question regrading "nofollow" and Following, Should the the blogger have to put "rel;"nofollow" on the link to his/her comment page?
They say probably not, because lots of interesting discussion can happen there. Also, if other people link to my comments page, a spider can follow that link and find any spam that's lurking on the comments page.
The best way to add this attribute are the actual links that other people can create. So on this blog, for instance, only the links within comments and the link immediately after "posted by;" would get the rel="nofollow" attribute.
Google states that we are not required to do anything, that updating the software that generates these pages will insure that most bloggers get these changes automatically, but I have not noticed a big difference.
your question will probably be next, will Google recognize the "nofollow" keyboard when it's part of a space separated list, According to the HTML spec, the value of the rel= attribute is a space separated list of link types.
Absolutely, they will practice the "be liberal in what you accept" philosophy, which means recognizing spaces, commas and, in fact, most punctuation. But they strongly recommend using spaces as separators to follow the specification.
Back to the question regrading "nofollow" and Following, Should the the blogger have to put "rel;"nofollow" on the link to his/her comment page?
They say probably not, because lots of interesting discussion can happen there. Also, if other people link to my comments page, a spider can follow that link and find any spam that's lurking on the comments page.
The best way to add this attribute are the actual links that other people can create. So on this blog, for instance, only the links within comments and the link immediately after "posted by;" would get the rel="nofollow" attribute.
Google states that we are not required to do anything, that updating the software that generates these pages will insure that most bloggers get these changes automatically, but I have not noticed a big difference.
your question will probably be next, will Google recognize the "nofollow" keyboard when it's part of a space separated list, According to the HTML spec, the value of the rel= attribute is a space separated list of link types.
Absolutely, they will practice the "be liberal in what you accept" philosophy, which means recognizing spaces, commas and, in fact, most punctuation. But they strongly recommend using spaces as separators to follow the specification.
Thursday, November 15, 2007
Improve your links with these methods
Link popularity, which refers to the number of links pointing to and from related sites, is considered as the most important factor for ranking high in major search engines.
There are three types of links that will increase the link popularity of your site internal, incoming and outgoing links.
1. Internal links refers to the number of links coming from the web pages of the same site.
Make sure you cross link your important related pages back and forth. By doing so, you are telling search engine spiders that those are the most important pages of your site and they need to be ranked high.
Cross linking your pages also helps the search engine spiders find and index your most important pages quicker, especially if some pages are buried deep within your site. This is an easy and the simplest way of getting your listed in the search engines.
Internal links not only boost your link popularity but they also increase the visibility of your whole website. They also increase your other page's PageRank.
2. Incoming links refers to number of links coming from external domains which have no association with your website. But always remember that incoming links are much more important than your internal links because external links tells search engines how many other websites are appreciating you website.
But now the question is how do you build lots of incoming links. There are three ways of finding sites to link to yours.
Find site that link to your Competition.
he best link partners can be those websites that link to your competition because due to their links your competitor is ranking high so a link from them can also boost up your own rankings.
To find who links to your competition go to your favorite search engine and search for the following:
link:www.yourcompetitorsdomain.com
When you search for the above search term you will get a list of sites that are linking to your competitor so now try to contact them and ask them for a link exchange.
Find Link Partners In Web Directories
Do not forget that all the sites listed in the same category as yours in the major web site directories, such as Yahoo!, LookSmart and the Open Directory Project, are ideal link candidates too.
Once you have compiled a list of related sites, add a link to them in your site. Then send an email to each site owner informing them that you have linked to their site and politely ask them for a link back to your site. Don't forget to tell them about the benefits of exchanging links in this manner.
Always remember to be polite and calm rather being violent even if he rejects your request. If he rejects your request then wait for some time may be 2-3 weeks and try to contact them again.
Find Sites That Accept Site Submissions
This is the best way of finding sites to link to yours, find sites that accept site submissions and just link back to them and just contact them for providing a link back to you. To find such sites, visit a search engine, such as Google, and search for:
"add url" "your keywords"
Replace "your keywords" with the keywords related to your site. Include the quotation marks to ensure the search engine only return pages with the exact search phrases you enter.
Also try replacing, "add url" with one of the following sets of search phrases:
add site, add link, add a url, add a site, add a link, submit url, submit site, submit link, submit a url, submit a site, submit a link.
In addition, you can also find site submission pages by searching for the actual page. So, try replacing the "add url" search phrase with one of the following page names:
addurl.html, addsite.html, addlink.html, addaurl.html, addasite.html, addalink.html, submiturl.html, submitsite.html, submitlink.html, submitaurl.html, submitasite.html, submitalink.
add-url.html, add-site.html, add-link.html, add-a-url.html, add-a-site.html, add-a-link.html, submit-url.html, submit-site.html, submit-link.html, submit-a-url.html, submit-a-site.html, submit-a-link.
add_url.html, add_site.html, add_link.html, add_a_url.html, add_a_site.html, add_a_link.html, submit_url.html, submit_site.html, submit_link.html, submit_a_url.html, submit_a_site.html, submit_a_link.
You could also try replacing the ".html" extension with others, such as ".htm," ".html," ".shtml," ".cfm," ".php," etc.
3. Outgoing Links
Outgoing links refers to the number of sites to whom you link to. I will advice you to not to link to anyone just because he links to you and has a good PR and just don't reject to link to someone just because he has a low PR because its PR doesn't matters what really matters is its content.
If you reject good content site today just because of its low PR then it may later bite you when that site reaches at the top. So link, but link wisely.
There are three types of links that will increase the link popularity of your site internal, incoming and outgoing links.
1. Internal links refers to the number of links coming from the web pages of the same site.
Make sure you cross link your important related pages back and forth. By doing so, you are telling search engine spiders that those are the most important pages of your site and they need to be ranked high.
Cross linking your pages also helps the search engine spiders find and index your most important pages quicker, especially if some pages are buried deep within your site. This is an easy and the simplest way of getting your listed in the search engines.
Internal links not only boost your link popularity but they also increase the visibility of your whole website. They also increase your other page's PageRank.
2. Incoming links refers to number of links coming from external domains which have no association with your website. But always remember that incoming links are much more important than your internal links because external links tells search engines how many other websites are appreciating you website.
But now the question is how do you build lots of incoming links. There are three ways of finding sites to link to yours.
Find site that link to your Competition.
he best link partners can be those websites that link to your competition because due to their links your competitor is ranking high so a link from them can also boost up your own rankings.
To find who links to your competition go to your favorite search engine and search for the following:
link:www.yourcompetitorsdomain.com
When you search for the above search term you will get a list of sites that are linking to your competitor so now try to contact them and ask them for a link exchange.
Find Link Partners In Web Directories
Do not forget that all the sites listed in the same category as yours in the major web site directories, such as Yahoo!, LookSmart and the Open Directory Project, are ideal link candidates too.
Once you have compiled a list of related sites, add a link to them in your site. Then send an email to each site owner informing them that you have linked to their site and politely ask them for a link back to your site. Don't forget to tell them about the benefits of exchanging links in this manner.
Always remember to be polite and calm rather being violent even if he rejects your request. If he rejects your request then wait for some time may be 2-3 weeks and try to contact them again.
Find Sites That Accept Site Submissions
This is the best way of finding sites to link to yours, find sites that accept site submissions and just link back to them and just contact them for providing a link back to you. To find such sites, visit a search engine, such as Google, and search for:
"add url" "your keywords"
Replace "your keywords" with the keywords related to your site. Include the quotation marks to ensure the search engine only return pages with the exact search phrases you enter.
Also try replacing, "add url" with one of the following sets of search phrases:
add site, add link, add a url, add a site, add a link, submit url, submit site, submit link, submit a url, submit a site, submit a link.
In addition, you can also find site submission pages by searching for the actual page. So, try replacing the "add url" search phrase with one of the following page names:
addurl.html, addsite.html, addlink.html, addaurl.html, addasite.html, addalink.html, submiturl.html, submitsite.html, submitlink.html, submitaurl.html, submitasite.html, submitalink.
add-url.html, add-site.html, add-link.html, add-a-url.html, add-a-site.html, add-a-link.html, submit-url.html, submit-site.html, submit-link.html, submit-a-url.html, submit-a-site.html, submit-a-link.
add_url.html, add_site.html, add_link.html, add_a_url.html, add_a_site.html, add_a_link.html, submit_url.html, submit_site.html, submit_link.html, submit_a_url.html, submit_a_site.html, submit_a_link.
You could also try replacing the ".html" extension with others, such as ".htm," ".html," ".shtml," ".cfm," ".php," etc.
3. Outgoing Links
Outgoing links refers to the number of sites to whom you link to. I will advice you to not to link to anyone just because he links to you and has a good PR and just don't reject to link to someone just because he has a low PR because its PR doesn't matters what really matters is its content.
If you reject good content site today just because of its low PR then it may later bite you when that site reaches at the top. So link, but link wisely.
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