The Nofollow attribute indicates if the source of the link “trusts” the destination of it. Trust is a very critical element in human relations and not one of the easiest. Too much mistrust can lead to paranoia and isolation. Too much trust can lead to abuse and being taken advantage of. We learn from childhood …
You think that things will become a bit normal again after the flood of posts all over the internet after David Pasternack’s 3rd negative post about SEO, just to get ”stabbed” from yet another side. Tweet Buffer
The popular Keyword Research tool Wordtracker announced that they are going to launch a special “UK only” option at the upcoming Search Engine Strategies Conference and Expo in London, UK in about 1 week (February 13th – February 15th, 2007). While US Search Marketers have the choice between numerous commercial and free Keyword Research and …
The anonymous lover from MySuperProposal.com who was attempting to get the funds to propose to his loved one via a 30 seconds Ad during the XLI. Superbowl came out of the closet. It is no other than “Our” Rand “Linkbait” Fishkin from SEOMoz.org. The proposal and background story got quite some media coverage. Perfect “Bait” …
There has been some debate whether to use Google Sitemaps, which is part of Google’s new Webmaster Central portal. I do agree with the opinions that state that the upload of a sitemap to Google might be a good option for you, but it might not be a good thing for everybody. There are valid …
Did you notice that the last post by Mr. David Pasternack, titled ” “Is SEO “rocket science?â€: A Q&A with Dave Pasternack” from January, 23rd has no comments? There is a friendly invitation reading “Click here to make a comment” at the end of the article, but nobody seemed to be willing to take advantage …
I wanted to follow up on my post LinkedIn versus Xing (aka Open BC) from November earlier, but did not get around to it until now. I did not expect such an interest in this topic when I wrote my post on a quite Sunday afternoon when I noticed that my OpenBC homepage was redirected …
Matt McGee from SmallBusinessSEM.com noticed at the end of last week that Google had a major update of the PageRank data for the Google browser toolbar. A reader commented that there were other updates related to the Google toolbar as well such as the key phrase suggestions feature. Danny Sullivans new site SearchEngineLand.com which officially …
Loren’s note about the article by Graywolf that talks about Google’s changing and unwritten policy on the usage of the nofollow tag got me thinking and leave a pretty long comment at Michael’s Blog. I thought that the premise is worth writing about in its own article. So here it is. Everybody talks about that a link …
I blogged about the Wikipedia Issues with SPAM and the discussions about the use of NOFOLLOW for ALL external Links from Wikipedia. It was done, finally. As of now are all outbound links from the english Wikipedia Site using the NOFOLLOW attribute, no exceptions. No matter where you place it, Article Page, Talk Page, User Page, …
