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A blog devoted to search engine optimization, search engine marketing, and web traffic, as written by an experienced web marketer and copywriter.

Do Outbound Links Drain Link Juice?

Posted on Sunday November 30th, 2008 at 15:39 in page rank, increase page rank, nofollow, dofollow, link juice, outbound links

In travels around the web, you’re going to find people justifying their use of nofollow tags by stating that they don’t want to lose “link juice” by having too many outbound links on the site. Ironically, you’ll often find this in posts ab...
Following Do Follow Blogs and Directories

Posted on Tuesday November 25th, 2008 at 11:22 in link building, nofollow, commenting, dofollow, blog directories, site directories

There’s an interesting post at SEO Blog (the one that’s actually cornered that name) about how going to do follow-only blogs to comment is not a winning strategy. I’ve said something of the same – you shouldn’t go to do follow blogs at th...
Using Nofollow and Dofollow Tags

Posted on Saturday November 22nd, 2008 at 19:04 in blogging, spam, backlinks, nofollow, commenting, dofollow

Nofollow tags are getting increased attention among web marketers. Many budding entrepreneurs who might have spent hours marketing a site through comments may pull out there hair thinking, “You mean those comment links are worthless?” Well, y...