Comments on: First Link Priority – Is Stompernet Wrong?

By: Mark

Mark — Tue, 02 Jun 2009 23:54:58 +0000

good work on the Stompernet video. more power on SEO :)

By: Vitaly

Vitaly — Sun, 31 May 2009 03:14:06 +0000

That Stompernet video does a great job of giving some basics on how to test and (as they intended) makes clear that for most of us it’s not worth our time. As they point out as well one question in your testing is, is the result “useful.” Most of the pagerank sculpting and other internal nofollow tricks strike me as dancing for today and may very well wind up being a big hassle to change yet again in the future.

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By: Andy Beard

Andy Beard — Sat, 30 May 2009 14:49:05 +0000

Well it looks lie you nofollowed the link with useful anchor text, and let the "home" link which appears first without a nofollow - totally illogical In addition this isn't a useful test as there are too many external and factors. Adding the link with a nofollow in this comment so people can see, but it is really bad SEO practice.

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lexington law review — Sat, 30 May 2009 00:02:52 +0000

We actually just tested this by nofollowing our “home” link and then linking to the home page with our #1 keyword phrase. We moved up 7 spots in google from this.

By: Kingpin

Kingpin — Fri, 29 May 2009 15:28:28 +0000

After just going through the 10 or so hours of Stomping the Search Engines 2.0, I’ve been desperately searching for more info on the first link priority theory, but its limited obviously. There are some interesting points brought up in the post.. which has left me more undecided in which direction to take :/

Thanks for the the Dan Ties video, hadn’t come seen that one yet.

By: Robert Enriquez

Robert Enriquez — Thu, 28 May 2009 14:26:07 +0000

just another idea or article about it

I had a hard time understanding this

“As the tests I have seen used unique to the web anchor text, based upon what Halfdeck is saying, that is why the anchor text for the nofollowed links were used, and the second followed links were ignored for the anchor text.

Thus in theory, as a “Home” link is common as anchor text, if you nofollow it, Google will ignore it… totally.”

First statement states that even if you nofollow the Home link they are still used.
2nd statement states if you nofollow the Home link that Google will ignore it totally.

This is good info to know if Google uses the first link/anchortext combination they find whether it’s nofollow or not. My article was about Google ignoring it because it’s nofollow.

By: Business Search -Guy

Business Search -Guy — Thu, 28 May 2009 13:49:17 +0000

I have noticed that Google does follow some rel=”nofollow” tags and follows, and even in some cases indexed the nofollow pages, So why not nofollow links. I don’t know if the same alt text in images on the same page drops the second image link or not but I always put unique alt text on every image link anyway, always have. I also not waste my time on nofollow comments for link building and only comment on a blog with nofollow if I have an interest in the post and I have something to say about it. It’s a waist of time to comment just to build links anyway. If you like a post and it’s a dofollow blog and you add a comment and a URL all the better.

By: hichamd (hicham damahi)

hichamd (hicham damahi) — Wed, 27 May 2009 20:55:06 +0000

First link Priority? http://andybeard.eu/1775/first-link-priority-is-stompernet-wrong.html

By: Andy Beard

Andy Beard — Tue, 26 May 2009 20:11:14 +0000

Though what you wrote in many ways contradict this totally.