Posts Tagged ‘nofollow’

Links, Google and Advertising

Wednesday, August 5th, 2009
One of my clients (who has a very successful and busy site) recently asked me about selling text links on his site. He had been approached by someone (apparently a link broker) who was wanting to place a collection of links in the footer, sitewide. My client was asking me about format and location, but I didn’t even address those questions. I told him that before he decided to proceed down that path, he needed to know about Google’s stance on paid links and the nofollow tag. (more…)

No NoFollow, NoSnitching

Wednesday, April 25th, 2007
The infamous Google spam czar Matt Cutts has fired another round at honest webmasters just trying to go about their daily work. In a recent blog post, He invited readers to report web sites buying or selling links that are not using the ridiculous nofollow tag on those links. Read: Google wants us to snitch on our colleagues. Turn them in. Rat them out. Become WWW stool pigeons for Google. There is a host of issues surrounding this edict from Google’s pet spam fighter, all of them ugly. (more…)

No NoFollow

Sunday, January 14th, 2007
I just edited the files in my wordpress template to remove all traces of the rel=”nofollow” attribute from links in this blog. All links, including those in comments and signatures, are now your basic bog-standard “follow” links. (more…)

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