Nofollows can be amazing for traffic so if someone says yes, I'll link to you but I have to nofollow it, say thanks. I wouldn't suggest popping your link into a casual comment because that's not a good way to build long-term link exposure, but...
Some people nofollow them in order to prevent them from receiving any link juice. A link without a rel=nofollow is a followed link. These are indicated by placing a rel="nofollow" into the link code. A nofollow is designed to tell Google that the...
So Long "NoFollow" Comment Tags This new platform would give Google an incredible tool to curb the endless comment spam manipulating their algorithms. With this new source of content coming from verified Google profiles, Google should be able to...
This approach to commenting is not about dofollow, nofollow, using keywords, or any of the other things you normally read about comments for links. This will help you grow your base of sites to comment upon.
The vast majority of blogs are some variation of Wordpress or Blogspot, which set comment links by default to "nofollow," meaning your website won't receive the link juice. Comment Links Dropping a URL in a comment isn't a big deal, but mixing in...
Because this is manual work, you'll want to have a tool that identifies blogs and forums that don't use nofollow. While this sounds better, and doesn't have to involve your website or marketing team, the question you need to ask is: Is a blog or...
SEW Experts: The Great Nofollow Link Debate of '08What started as a way to stop comment spam three years ago has turned into one of the most controversial topics in search. We've collected all the search marketing news from selected posts to the...
SEW Experts: The Great Nofollow Link Debate of '08What started as a way to stop comment spam three years ago has turned into one of the most controversial topics in search. Want a snapshot of the day's search marketing news?
Three years ago Google introduced the rel="nofollow" tag to the Web. Eric Lander started an interesting debate about nofollow use triggering search engine algorithms (define) to detect spammy sites. The new nofollow tag quickly became known as a...
In today's SEM Crossfire column, "The Great Nofollow Link Debate of '08," Chris Boggs discusses the evolution of the "nofollow" attribute and its impact on SEO and link building. What started as a way to stop comment spam three years ago has turned...
This changed in January 2007, when Wikipedia opted to add the "nofollow" attribute to all outbound links, effectively cutting off the transfer of PageRank in Google's algorithm. While most marketers focus on Google, marketers should remember that...
Loren Baker has asked Google, Yahoo, Microsoft and Ask.com to explain just what nofollow really means in a comprehensive post at Search Engine Journal, "How Google, Yahoo & Ask.com Treat the No Follow Link Attribute.
The main reason for the development of nofollow was blog comment spam. It's also worth mentioning that nofollow is not widely adopted today, so as a spam strategy, link comment spam might not yet be completely obsolete.
In a post at Search Engine Roundtable, Barry Schwartz points out that Googler Adam Lasnick has been busy explaining the effects of the rel="nofollow" tag in some posts on the Webmaster Central group. In a post to the group on Tuesday, "Vanessa is...
Wikipedia Adds Nofollow To Outbound Links Cre8asite Forums "Wikipedia has added nofollow on their outbound links just a few hours ago, after a surge of new spam due to another SEO contest" I'm sure the University can tolerate the Digg comment abuse...
The "nofollow" was developed to counteract blog comment spam where links were not trustworthy. For Wikipedia to render all external links as "nofollow," while an efficient way to cut down deliberate spam, in essence calls into question all of the...
Yahoo is easy to spam with comment spam (ummm, nofollow not working? Also Easy To Spam and the other MSN Asks Webmasters What Are Quality & Authoritative Sites. We have been poking hard at Google for disappointing search results, but Google is not...
NoFollow was introduced by Google over a year ago to combat prevalent comment spam as blogs became extremely popular. NoFollow has done very little to actually thwart comment spam, and its other effect is to dissuade some from entering legitimate...
NoFollow was introduced by Google over a year ago to combat prevalent comment spam as blogs became extremely popular. NoFollow has done very little to actually thwart comment spam, and its other effect is to dissuade some from entering legitimate...
NoFollow was introduced by Google over a year ago to combat prevalent comment spam as blogs became extremely popular. NoFollow has done very little to actually thwart comment spam, and its other effect is to dissuade some from entering legitimate...
