Recent Posts Tagged With 'nofollow'

• How to handle a machine-readable pandemic that search engines cannot control

  Posted on Friday June 19th, 2009 at 15:59 in google, SEO, blogging, web development, microformats, nofollow, cloaking, paid links, search quality, x-robots-tag, risky linkage

  When you’re familiar with my various rants on the ever morphing rel-nofollow microformat infectious link disease, don’t read further. This post is not polemic, ironic, insulting, or otherwise meant to entertain you. I’m just raving ...

• 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...

• My plea to Google - Please sanitize your REP revamps

  Posted on Thursday January 3rd, 2008 at 18:02 in web development, msn, microformats, nofollow, robots.txt, crawler directives, robots meta tags, x-robots-tag, xml-sitemaps

  Standardization of REP tags as robots.txt directives This draft is kinda request for comments for search engine staff and uber search geeks interested in the progress of Robots Exclusion Protocol (REP) standardization (actually, every search engine m...

• Google to change the Robots Exclusion Protocol again

  Posted on Friday November 30th, 2007 at 12:33 in microformats, nofollow, robots.txt, crawler directives, robots meta tags, x-robots-tag, xml-sitemaps

  Web crawler directives, partly standardized in the Robots Exclusion Protocol (REP), evolved since 1994. Nowadays we’ve to deal with a conglomerate of not binding de facto standards and microformats, all of them extended by various organizations...

• Act out your sophisticated affiliate link paranoia

  Posted on Tuesday November 13th, 2007 at 01:09 in web development, e-commerce, nofollow, cloaking, robots.txt, redirects, paid links, search quality, crawler directives, x-robots-tag, risky linkage

  My recent posts on managing affiliate links and nofollow cloaking paid links led to so many reactions from my readers that I thought explaining possible protection levels could make sense. Google’s request to condomize affiliate links is a bit,...

• A pragmatic defence against Google’s anti paid links campaign

  Posted on Friday October 26th, 2007 at 09:39 in nofollow, cloaking, paid links, search quality, crawler directives, risky linkage

  Google’s recent shot across the bows of a gazillion sites handling paid links, advertising, or internal cross links not compliant to Google’s imagination of a natural link is a call for action. Google’s message is clear: “cond...