Posts Tagged ‘PageRank’

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…)

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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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Google PR Update

Thursday, January 11th, 2007
Some years ago, when I worked in public relations in the corporate world, we hired a new employee in our department (the Public Relations Department, or PR for short). On her first day on the job, my boss, the department head, happened to see her as she drove into the parking lot — her car was sporting a bumper sticker that read, “I love PR.” (more…)

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