Comments on: Nofollow Monstrosity http://seolutions.net/blog/nofollow-monstrosity/ search engine obsession Mon, 14 Sep 2009 21:56:56 -0600 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: April http://seolutions.net/blog/nofollow-monstrosity/comment-page-1/#comment-799 April Wed, 19 Aug 2009 11:47:50 +0000 http://seolutions.net/blog/nofollow-monstrosity/#comment-799 My main concern has always been the amount of spam. You're never quite sure how genuine people are and often they are too lazy to even write more than two words. I have a couple of dofollow blogs and most of the time I'm not sure if people have even read the post because they end up saying things that have nothing to do with what I have written. My main concern has always been the amount of spam. You’re never quite sure how genuine people are and often they are too lazy to even write more than two words. I have a couple of dofollow blogs and most of the time I’m not sure if people have even read the post because they end up saying things that have nothing to do with what I have written.

]]> By: jay ess http://seolutions.net/blog/nofollow-monstrosity/comment-page-1/#comment-754 jay ess Thu, 30 Jul 2009 08:05:10 +0000 http://seolutions.net/blog/nofollow-monstrosity/#comment-754 thank you for informing me about this dirty underhanded trick that so many of these gigantic social sites are pulling. i had no idea about this and never even thought about this. truly amazing what these sites are doing to hold on to their own page rank while taking from others. thank you. thank you for informing me about this dirty underhanded trick that so many of these gigantic social sites are pulling. i had no idea about this and never even thought about this. truly amazing what these sites are doing to hold on to their own page rank while taking from others. thank you.

]]> By: rel NoFollow, Google, PageRank Sculpting & SEO http://seolutions.net/blog/nofollow-monstrosity/comment-page-1/#comment-668 rel NoFollow, Google, PageRank Sculpting & SEO Fri, 05 Jun 2009 08:35:51 +0000 http://seolutions.net/blog/nofollow-monstrosity/#comment-668 [...] wrote before about the rel nofollow monstrosity. It seems Google guys did finally realize something is terribly wrong with their [...] [...] wrote before about the rel nofollow monstrosity. It seems Google guys did finally realize something is terribly wrong with their [...]

]]> By: keyword richness removed http://seolutions.net/blog/nofollow-monstrosity/comment-page-1/#comment-631 keyword richness removed Wed, 06 May 2009 17:05:07 +0000 http://seolutions.net/blog/nofollow-monstrosity/#comment-631 Nofollow is like the war on drugs - totally flawed. Drugs are illegal, but drug use is still rife. Spam has been "outlawed" by nofollow, but it too is still rife. Nofollow has failed in stopping spam. For this, it should not be allowed to persist and have the damaging PR-concentration effect that it does :) Nofollow is like the war on drugs – totally flawed. Drugs are illegal, but drug use is still rife. Spam has been “outlawed” by nofollow, but it too is still rife. Nofollow has failed in stopping spam. For this, it should not be allowed to persist and have the damaging PR-concentration effect that it does :)

]]> By: Jostmon http://seolutions.net/blog/nofollow-monstrosity/comment-page-1/#comment-543 Jostmon Thu, 16 Apr 2009 03:48:15 +0000 http://seolutions.net/blog/nofollow-monstrosity/#comment-543 You are a beautiful soul. I just realized today that my domain has over 1000 backlinks and not even one of them is being followed. Wish I could have been rewarded a little for all those comments I left. Oh well, I guess folks in the domain industry don't believe in helping the little guys. You are a beautiful soul. I just realized today that my domain has over 1000 backlinks and not even one of them is being followed. Wish I could have been rewarded a little for all those comments I left. Oh well, I guess folks in the domain industry don’t believe in helping the little guys.

]]> By: keyword richness removed http://seolutions.net/blog/nofollow-monstrosity/comment-page-1/#comment-533 keyword richness removed Mon, 13 Apr 2009 02:21:37 +0000 http://seolutions.net/blog/nofollow-monstrosity/#comment-533 Not all who give comments to blog are spammers. There is akismet or TypePad to control them. And you can also manually check everyday if someone is spamming your website. Dofollow is good in a sense specially if you are building a good relationship with your visitor and trying to "socialize" with them. Not all who give comments to blog are spammers. There is akismet or TypePad to control them. And you can also manually check everyday if someone is spamming your website. Dofollow is good in a sense specially if you are building a good relationship with your visitor and trying to “socialize” with them.

]]> By: Ed http://seolutions.net/blog/nofollow-monstrosity/comment-page-1/#comment-524 Ed Thu, 09 Apr 2009 14:55:38 +0000 http://seolutions.net/blog/nofollow-monstrosity/#comment-524 A very useful post though I don't agree that having the social bookmarking buttons are negative for your site. I used to run a blog for my previous company, and we had a host of social bookmarking buttons using the "ShareThis" system. With interesting content on the blog (it was about modern architecture", we had acquired over 100 daily visits, a PR of 4 and our readers were regularly bookimarking our articles. One day we received 800 from Stumble Upon. It's far to easy to get hung up on PageRank and losing sight on what really matters on the web: content. Write good content, promote it properly and the links and SERPs will follow. A very useful post though I don’t agree that having the social bookmarking buttons are negative for your site.

I used to run a blog for my previous company, and we had a host of social bookmarking buttons using the “ShareThis” system. With interesting content on the blog (it was about modern architecture”, we had acquired over 100 daily visits, a PR of 4 and our readers were regularly bookimarking our articles. One day we received 800 from Stumble Upon.

It’s far to easy to get hung up on PageRank and losing sight on what really matters on the web: content. Write good content, promote it properly and the links and SERPs will follow.

]]> By: Victor http://seolutions.net/blog/nofollow-monstrosity/comment-page-1/#comment-452 Victor Sun, 01 Mar 2009 10:13:26 +0000 http://seolutions.net/blog/nofollow-monstrosity/#comment-452 I find this post really useful, one of my blogs is a dofollow, and I have submitted to some social bookmarking sites, but I noticed as you have mentioned in your point no. 1, that whenever I search for some of my keywords, some bookmarking sites which i've submitted to comes first, just before my own site. Anyway, thanks for the advice of putting antisocial on my blog. I find this post really useful, one of my blogs is a dofollow, and I have submitted to some social bookmarking sites, but I noticed as you have mentioned in your point no. 1, that whenever I search for some of my keywords, some bookmarking sites which i’ve submitted to comes first, just before my own site. Anyway, thanks for the advice of putting antisocial on my blog.

]]> By: keyword richness removed http://seolutions.net/blog/nofollow-monstrosity/comment-page-1/#comment-355 keyword richness removed Mon, 26 Jan 2009 11:49:02 +0000 http://seolutions.net/blog/nofollow-monstrosity/#comment-355 For the same reason many of my blogs suffered a lot and I have many good rankings but below to those social bookmarking sites ranks. For the same reason I didn't encourage my users to bookmark me socially. I had similar solution for all m y blogs and now I love social media sites more than I could. For the same reason many of my blogs suffered a lot and I have many good rankings but below to those social bookmarking sites ranks. For the same reason I didn’t encourage my users to bookmark me socially. I had similar solution for all m y blogs and now I love social media sites more than I could.

]]> By: Ryan http://seolutions.net/blog/nofollow-monstrosity/comment-page-1/#comment-353 Ryan Sun, 25 Jan 2009 23:43:11 +0000 http://seolutions.net/blog/nofollow-monstrosity/#comment-353 I've been looking into whether or not to go do-follow or not. I was always afraid of the amount of spam it would bring in. However, with the plugins available now to fight spam, and now with that cool one to fight off bad links that you've posted about above, I guess there isn't much reason not to make the move. Good post. Cheers I’ve been looking into whether or not to go do-follow or not. I was always afraid of the amount of spam it would bring in. However, with the plugins available now to fight spam, and now with that cool one to fight off bad links that you’ve posted about above, I guess there isn’t much reason not to make the move.
Good post.
Cheers

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