Recent Posts Tagged With 'anchor text'

• Vaporize yourself before Google burns your linking power

  Posted on Tuesday June 16th, 2009 at 14:14 in google, SEO, Internet Marketing, web development, crap, microformats, nofollow, cloaking, anchor text, webspam, paid links, search quality

  I couldn’t care less about PageRank™ sculpting, because a well thought out link architecture does the job with all search engines, not just Google. That’s where Google is right on the money. They own PageRank™, hence they can ...

• Nofollow still means don’t follow, and how to instruct Google to crawl nofollow’ed links nevertheless

  Posted on Saturday February 23rd, 2008 at 08:51 in testing, nofollow, cloaking, anchor text, paid links

  What was meant as a quick test of rel-nofollow once again (inspired by Michelle’s post stating that nofollow’ed comment author links result in rankings), turned out to some interesting observations: Google uses sneaky JavaScript links (t...

• Why storing URLs with truncated trailing slashes is an utterly idiocy

  Posted on Wednesday February 6th, 2008 at 02:03 in web development, crap, usability, duplicate content, anchor text, .htaccess

  With some Web services URL canonicalization has a downside. What works great for major search engines like Google can fire back when a Web service like Yahoo thinks circumcising URLs is cool. Proper URL canonicalization might, for example, screw your...

• Text link broker woes: Google’s smart paid link sniffers

  Posted on Tuesday November 6th, 2007 at 10:44 in link building, anchor text, paid links, risky linkage

  After the recent toolbar PageRank massacre link brokers are in the spotlight. One of them, TNX beta1, asked me to post a paid review of their service. It took a while to explain that nobody can buy a sales pitch here. I offered to write a pitiless ho...