Tag Archives: nofollow

Tweetglide vs Twitter For SEO

Twitter deciding to nofollow links 2 years ago really annoyed me.

When they decided to close all loopholes in creating an active link within the bio area, it prevented me linking to my disclosure policy – that annoyed me as well, especially with all the terrible attempts of providing adequate disclosure within paid tweets that are currently being used/proposed.
There was a huge outcry from the SEO community.

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Friday 13th – A Very Bad Day for Comment Spammers

Nice search engine friendly links are a great way to reward valuable members of the community of any blog, but they are certainly not a right, and still find myself deleting 50+ worthless comments every day.Most disturbing of all though are the SEO consultants and agencies who I have caught commenting on behalf of their clients, or as themselves with a link through to a client's site. Some of them are totally dumb about it.I now have a new comments policy in force though most of it is just a clearer interpretation of what has been in place for the last 3+ years.
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WordPress Comment SEO Solutions

Changing the way WordPress and other content management systems handle comments for SEO, members areas, aggregated conversations & more.
I am sure some of this post is going to blow people's brains, though this is only the tip of the iceberg.
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Why You Should Nofollow Your Blog Comments?

Dave Naylor seems to think it is a good idea to nofollow blog comments.In many ways he is right:-
  • You get increased automated comment spam
  • You get increased spam from outsourced commenting
  • You get increased spam from people using commenting efficiency tools (Comment Kahuna, Comment Hut etc)
  • You get increased spam from people using dofollow search engines
  • You get increased spam from people using lists of dofollow blogs
  • You get Internet Marketing Gurus encouraging their interns to comment on their behalf
It takes additional time to manage comments on your blog even when you set up Spam Karma effectively, but that is something you could outsource to compensate, or have managed by a more junior member of staff.You also leak a little bit of extra juice, how much depends on your site structure, and how many comments you get. Some people prefer to have huge blogrolls of the people who buy them drinks at seminars.

What Do You Gain?

I think the biggest gain is in community
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Guru Internet Marketing Mentorship Programs Abusing Dofollow Blogs

There seems to be a new trend with internet marketers running some kind of mentorship or bonus program.

It runs something like this (though I haven't signed up to one to get exact details)

  • You sign up to the mentorship program
  • One of the tasks is backlink building from Dofollow blogs
  • The new internet marketer runs around leaving comments on Dofollow blogs, but uses backlinks to the blog or salespage of the internet marketing guru
  • After dropping a certain number of backlinks, the new internet marketer qualifies for a bonus

The backlinks are sometimes the link reserved for the comment author, or sometimes product mentions

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Site Structure – SEOs Going Fishing Without Any Bait

If you don't know what you are doing with nofollow, noindex and robots.txt you can royally mess* things up (face to face I would use a stronger term). Even if you do know what you are doing, you can still mess things up.

I can understand why Matt Cutts might want to change what noindex does, it is not just Koreans making occasional mistake, for instance I just noticed the whole WebProNews video blog is currently noindex nofollow. I am sure that is a mistake, it is easy to make in Wordpress… just one click and save.

All in one

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Google Reconsideration or Reinclusion Request

Now Google have changed their wording for reconsideration requests (formerly reinclusion requests), I have filed one for this domain.I am not going to call this a perfect example of a reconsideration request, but I decided that it was better to be 100% honest about my thought process for both now and in the future, because whilst I am now blocking paid reviews with robots.txt, there are so many things still not specified within the webmaster guidelines that it is a potential minefield, especially for someone who has previously been the target of a manual penalty.Here is exactly what I sent to the Google webmaster team.
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Nofollow Killed Google Social Graph API 3 Years Ago

Lets face it, I have social profiles all over the web and I am or have been an active participant in tons of conversations on blogs and forums.

3 years ago Google introduced rel="nofollow", very similar to rel="me" , rel="friend" and other XFN and FOAF standards. Today Google are championing their new API with the slogan "URLs Are People Too"

3 years ago that was true, now URLs on many (most) places where people congregate on the web are no longer "people" because in a supposed attempt to combat comment spam, Google encouraged major sites to use rel="nofollow" making the

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Techcrunch Now Nofollow Sponsor Links

I would like to congratulate the Techcrunch team for finally coming to the realization that linking to sponsors within posts, without using nofollow on the links might be in violation of Google's Webmaster guidelines.

This was previously written about by Ted Murphy of Izea, and vehemently defended by Techcrunch, so it is surprising that they have made a significant change in their stance without also making a public statement about it.

I also wrote about this situation in a previous article on paid links and the PageRank update (round 5).

Here is their previous links to sponsors post from

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Google Dictating Nofollow For ALL Links From Compensated Content

As I had hoped, ( http://community.izea.com/blog/2007/12/an-invitation-t.html ) Ted Murphy had a chance to chat with Google's Matt Cutts at Pubcon

It seems Google want all links within content that "wouldn't exist without payment" to use nofollow, but seems to be focusing on services like PayPerPost, and not other forms of links which wouldn't exist without compensation.

  • Matt Cutts frequently links to Google from his personal blog - if he wasn't employed by Google, those links would likely not appear as frequently.
  • Google employees link to outside sites all the time, and they are frequently sites that are "flying the Google flag" in some
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SEO Linking Gotchas Even The Pros Make

I am going to attempt to debunk almost every Wordpress SEO "Expert" article ever written, and in some respects this article even debunks some of the things I have written in the past.

This article does not reference Google Toolbar PageRank in any way

First of all you are going to need to do a little homework.

Eric Enge interview with Matt Cutts

The Eric Enge interview with Matt Cutts was truly exceptional and revealed a number of gotchas that for some reason continue to be circulated.

Key takeaways

Matt Cutts: … Now, robots.txt says you are not allowed to crawl a page, and Google

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Linking Abuse Or Linking Awareness

Blogcatalog Members today are collectively blogging about abuse.

Bloggers Unite

I thought of blogging about all kinds of abuse that affect real people day in, day out, but decided that ultimately that doesn't fit in with my audience, or really add any authority to the words I would be writing.

As it happens, today part of a 2 hour interview with me was published in the Guardian (Digg Story you know you want to). I honestly didn't expect any more words in print from the article, because it was so wide ranging, and such

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Are You A Fake Dofollow Blogger?

Not all blogs that write a post about dofollow, link through to plugins, and stick up a Dofollow logo have actually removed nofollow from their comments.

Over the last few months I have rejected over 100 blogs to the No Nofollow / Dofollow community on Bumpzee, and all but about 20 were because they didn't have nofollow removed correctly from their comments.

Fortunately about 30 of those subsequently either contacted me to have this explained to them, or fixed the problem and then notified me that things were resolved.

Lots of people for some reason don't get back in touch with

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Twitter Nofollow

News of Twitter adopting rel="nofollow" is disturbing.

Sure links from Twitter can be abused, because Twitter profiles are so heavily interlinked.

What they should have done is stuck nofollow on your "twitter blogroll" links thus making each Twitter account a little more independent and negating the benefit of building up mass friendships for more than traffic generation.

It isn't a minor thing, Twitter has just become another "Wikipedia", a black hole sucking in link juice and only allowing it to flow internally.

I would no longer class Twitter as a microblogging application, because in many ways the content you submit

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Steal Content From Download Squad to get links!

Download squad often has some high quality articles, but sometimes I wonder whether the writers really understand what they are writing about, or are compiling their content whilst referring to multiple sources.

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DoFollow | No Nofollow – Highs & Lows

Having spent so much time over the last 6 months evangelising the adoption of dofollow plugins and solutions to remove nofollow from comments, the last week has been filled with highs and lows.

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Get The Most From DoFollow | No Nofollow

So now people have calmed down a little from their running around like headless chickens leaving comments on every blog they could find that used Dofollow, and then linking through to unrelated content, lets start looking at how to link a little more strategically.

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Blogging Productivity & Criticizing Goals

Ben instigated a community writing project on productivity, and Dawud thoughtfully decided to encourage me to get involved, after also giving some great tips on how to be productive and stay focused.

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Vlad Ripped Me Apart

Well more to the point, he asked me some damn tough questions that made me think for more than 5 minutes before answering them. Actually I spent quite some time on the reply, and it wasn’t as straight forward as I was expecting.

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How To Remove Nofollow On Moveable Type

No Nofollow

Gothwalk just pinged me to say that he has now written a guide on how to remove Nofollow on Moveable Type.

Gothwalk had been scratching his head all weekend, because he wanted his blogs to be included in the new DoFollow community on Bumpzee, but everytime he thought he had it cracked, I would spot that something wasn’t quite right.

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Mike Sansone Cracks The Secret Code to Removing Nofollow From Typepad

For two years people have been struggling to remove Nofollow from Typepad so they can share the link love with their regular visitors who add great value to the conversation on the host blog.
Many blog owners are unaware that the links people leave on their blogs are shrouded with a “link condom” which tells the major search engines to ignore any links left that provide a benefit to the blog community.

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Exclusive: No Nofollow | I Follow | DoFollow Bumpzee Community

Bumpzee
I Follow
I Follow

For a long time I have been promising myself to build a community site for the Dofollow movement I strongly support, but it just wasn’t happening fast enough to support the growing community.

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The Ultimate Way To Show Reader Appreciation

Reader Appreciation
If you weren’t already aware, this week is reader appreciation week. Now the idea of reader appreciation is fairly good, give out some prizes, give a reader a link, etc etc.

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Exclusive: Blogcatalog vs Technorati? – Sharing The Love & Tagging (nofollow removed)

As most of my readers are no doubt aware, I am a strong supporter of sharing the link love, but I always advocate sharing it in a focused manner, preferably from relevant content or from comments and trackbacks. If you trackback/pingback this blog you receive a reciprocal link between highly relevant content automatically, and not only Google and other major search engines count the links as relevant, but also blogging search engines such as Technorati, though with Technorati it is best to do it on a more recent post.

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Google | Yahoo | MSN | Cooperatively Introduce rel=”follow” tag

I missed this a few days ago

At the request of WhiteHat SEO community on April the 1st this year all major search engines including Google, Yahoo and MSN Live declared their joint support for a newly developed XFN standard.
The new attribute rel=follow is designed to complement the notorious rel=nofollow. However unlike nofollow attribute rel=follow is designed to express not negative but positive relationship between a linking website and a website rel=follow link points to.
I’ll try to explain it in layman’s terms…

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Blogcatalog Slam Dunks MyBlogLog?

When Blogcatalog announced their entry into the social network of blogging I almost totally ignored it. Oops…

Blogcatalog History Lesson
(as I understand it)

In June 2005 Brad Jasper sold Blogcatalog to Jacob Gower

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I Bet You Missed Some of These (March 07)

These are some highlights (in my opinion) of some of the content I have created over the last month. If I have missed anything out which you enjoyed or gained some value from, please let others know in the comments.

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Is Akismet a Spam Magnet? Plus a little on Trackbacks

I am going to keep this fairly short.

I was just reading Paul’s post on trackbacks as there seems to me some kind of meme floating around started by Steve Rubel that trackbacks are dead.

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Ugly In Pink?

Whilst the traditional saying is “Pretty in Pink” that saying is not universally true. Vlad clearly demonstrates how ugly a website can be when dressed in pink.

I digged it

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Destroy Your Blog Rankings Linking To Digg or Technorati?

How many blogs link to Technorati on every post they publish? Many blogs also use followable links to social bookmarking sites such as Delicious, and social news sites such as Digg on every single page of their site? Google in their recently disclosed patent are saying that it could be a negative indication of quality.

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Wordpress Plugin: Antisocial

You could blame this plugin on Lorelle for suggesting this weekend as a “Code Marathon Party“. Honestly though her code weekend idea just gave me a kick up the backside to finally just archive something on my harddisk and stick it on the web for public download.

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How To Remove Nofollow On New Blogger – Dofollow on Blogspot

When I wrote my Ultimate Guide to DoFollow plugins, I hadn’t read a solution to removing Nofollow from comments for Blogger that actually passed the link credit from your own domain.

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Multiple Reasons Why I Loathe Top Commenters Plugins

I benefit from being a top commenter on a number of blogs simply because I am consistently active on those sites, and I have gained the benefit without changing my commenting habits.
Some of my blogging friends are aware of the problems, but have opted to use such a plugin anyway – I fully respect that decision, but many make that decision “blindly” without being aware of the possible consequences.

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Shoemoney Nofollow Plugin

This plugin retroactively places the rel=”nofollow” tag on all links to Shoemoney.com – you don’t have to modify any links manually, and it is easy to switch off should you feel in the future that the site no longer contains offensive material.

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Ultimate List of DoFollow & Nofollow Plugins – Banish Nofollow From Comments and Trackbacks

Wordpress by default, just like other blogging platforms, has automatically been adding the "nofollow" microformat extension to all links from user generated content such as comments and trackbacks. To support the growing rejection of NoFollow for blog comments, I have compiled this list of plugins that help you remove nofollow from your blog forever.

  • Lucia's Linky Love Plugin - I was going to liken this plugin to a Ferrari, because it is built to be fast, but it is probably more like a Subaru, not just fast but designed for rugged terrain and can handle the twists and turns of
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How Timing of Link Attribution Affects Syndication and Search Results

I read a couple of days ago an interesting post by Bill Hartzer regarding the time it takes for link attribution to take effect on an almost dead website, that receives a high pagerank inbound link.

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2000 Bloggers and Hypocrisy

I actually applied only recently for Tino Buntie to add my name to the 2000 Bloggers collage. I thought it was a cool idea, although the SEO benefit is probably minimal simply because although massive cross-linking is happening, it could be looked on as:-

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Trackbacks to Moveable Type and Hacked Wordpress Sites

Am I the only one who feels slightly disconnected from the conversation when blogs using Moveable Type, or a modified Wordpress installation don’t trackback.

If your blog doesn’t trackback, I am less inclined to link to you and join your conversation. I might just comment, but that doesn’t send my readers to see what you wrote either.

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Ive Just Been Floored – Am I Out For The Count?

I started tapping out a comment on Chris’s Search Anyway blog, but decided it would be much better to send him some visitors. It is not like I can send him a massive wave of visitors, because not all my subscribers are heavily into the nitty gritty of the nofollow debate in various contexts, though it is something that fascinates me.

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Sociable Beta | PlugIm | Bumpzee | Technorati WTF

Social Bookmarking and Social Networks - Technorati WTF PlugIM Bumpzee

Sociable has been due for an update for a long time. In popularity I am sure it is among the top 20 plugins in use, maybe even top 10 – it is certainly very visible on blogs, more so than the very discreet Share This plugin.

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Toolbar Pagerank | Ball Linking

Google have finally updated their toolbar pagerank for this site, not just on the front page, but also a lot of the deeper pages. Not all of them – some of those devoid of pagerank should probably have some, others probably shouldn’t especially moved content that hasn’t been given enough love.

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Wikipedia NoFollow Plugin

I mentioned I was willing to create such a plugin, I was even cobbling the code together.

Then I noticed a mention over on Matt’s blog (just search for Matt) in the comments that somone had written one.

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Wordpress Founder – Admits Nofollow Didn’t Work

I am going to start off with

Damn that’s Brave

Matt was commenting on the Wikipedia announcement, and made the following statement.

Hmm excerpt? – Matt please forgive me, but it is so short I am going to include it all.

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Exactly Why Nofollow at Wikipedia is bad

Once upon a time, a scientist wrote a brilliant blog post solving the answer to life, the universe and everything. A few people linked to him, and anyone searching for the answer to the ultimate question could find it easily, by just a simple search in Google.
The scientist appeared right at the top of the results.

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Wikipedia NoFollow Plugin? WikiDigg?

The news today seems to be that Wikipedia have added nofollow to external links.

I have seen a lot of sites mention that all the search engines respect nofollow. Actually they don’t. Anlaysis has shown that Yahoo certainly follow and index pages despite the nofollow tag.

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Comments Policy How To

Ezine Articles are in the process of implementing a new comments policy for their blog, and the good part is that they are also removing nofollow from the comments.

I love Ezine Articles, and the blog is one I read “religiously”. Bloggers can learn an awful lot from Article Marketing, and in fact I recommend that all bloggers also use article marketing especially when they have a new blog with low readership.

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Paid Links | Hindsight gives perspective

Paid Links

It is five years, almost to the day that Yahoo started charging $299 per year for a listing in their directory as this article on Pandia clearly illustrates.

The main benefit of being in the Yahoo directory isn’t traffic, it is pagerank / trustrank. Who actually uses the Yahoo directory for anything other than listing their own sites?
It is many years since I went to Yahoo to lookup an entry for anything other than a competitor in a niche.

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Nofollow | Preserving Google Juice

When I did my round up of readers taking action of various kinds with , I missed out on one very active reader. I hadn’t been by his blog in a few days, and there has been quite a significant change.

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Blog SEO | Evaluation | Taking action

One of the most rewarding things about blogging, at least for me, is when you see people taking action based on something you have suggested.

There are actually 2 distinct stages in taking action

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Nofollow | SEO & Dynamic Linking | Disclosure

Here are some more links discussing the use of NoFollow for SEO purposes.

Seo Blog has a solid overview of how each search engine treats nofollow.
I am not sure the final conclusion regarding Yahoo and treating nofollow for ranking purposes is correct. I know many people who have done well with blog comments with Yahoo search, even on blogs using nofollow. I haven’t got any recent data.

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NoFollow and Pink Boxes

Did you know that using social network buttons can hurt your search engine rankings?Every single link on your page gives some weight to the pages it is linking to, whether internal or external.
  • It is nice to share that with the people who visit your website, post comments, or trackback
  • It is a good idea to share as much as possible with your own internal pages
  • When you link to people in your posts who provide good information, that is what the web and linking are all about.
  • It is a good idea to have 50 links on your page pointing to social network sites
Why did I cross out the last point on my list?nofollow social buttons
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How to make it easy to gain links

You should always try to make it easy for people to link to you, especially if you are running a blog which isn’t using nofollow for trackbacks as additional encouragement.

Thus you should provide copy and paste linking.

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Ultimate Tag Warrior SEO Tricks (pt 1)

On my blogs, I prefer not to use nofollow for comments and trackback.

It is my belief that if someone adds to the conversation on my blogs, the least I can do is offer them a backlink for their trouble.
I prefer people to write a post about me than to add me to their blogroll. I know a blogroll link theoretically gives me more Google Juice, but if they give 200 people a blogroll link, suddenly the value of that link from every page is greatly deminished.

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How a Blogroll can kill your Pagerank

I followed a link from Digg a few minutes a go, read the story, and as I frequently do on any site I visit, I snooped around a little.

I actually do exactly the same every time someone writes a blog post referring to me and pings my blog. It is the polite thing to do, and maybe I can add something to the conversation. It also allows me to relate any comment to the person who is writing about me, either positively or negatively. Everyone is entitled to opposing views. What is often important is why they have an opposing view, and it isn’t always obvious.

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No NoFollow & No-Nofollow.com

The “nofollow” tag prevents (in theory) search engines attributing weight to links for Page Rank. It also in theory prevents them following the link and indexing the content.

Recent proof suggests that this is not necessarily true with Yahoo and as I showed in my original post regarding Google Reader and Splogs, Yahoo can be used to find links to Google Reader Linkblogs.

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