Comments on: Google Cracks Down on Link Buying http://www.memwg.com/google-cracks-down-on-link-buying/ Eric Giguere's AdSense Tips Mon, 02 Jan 2012 15:55:31 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3 By: Eric Giguere http://www.memwg.com/google-cracks-down-on-link-buying/comment-page-1/#comment-1975 Eric Giguere Thu, 06 Dec 2007 03:09:29 +0000 http://www.memwg.com/google-cracks-down-on-link-buying/#comment-1975 Nofollow links are still links, but the "nofollow" tells search engines that the linked site is either not to be trusted or considered authoritative... in Google's case it prevents the passing of PageRank (which is essentially a vote) to the linked site. Search engines will still follow the link and index things it finds. But nofollow links affect the search index differently. Nofollow links are still links, but the “nofollow” tells search engines that the linked site is either not to be trusted or considered authoritative… in Google’s case it prevents the passing of PageRank (which is essentially a vote) to the linked site.

Search engines will still follow the link and index things it finds. But nofollow links affect the search index differently.

]]> By: Scotch http://www.memwg.com/google-cracks-down-on-link-buying/comment-page-1/#comment-1969 Scotch Wed, 05 Dec 2007 08:47:18 +0000 http://www.memwg.com/google-cracks-down-on-link-buying/#comment-1969 Hi Eric - pse can you clarify something for me? If one uses the rel="nofollow" tag for links does it mean SEs don't follow the link, so in their eyes it doesn't count as an outbound link? If that's the case, then isn't it possible that links are going to lose their effectiveness as a way for SEs to judge a website's "authority"? I ask this as it seems more and more webmasters will use the nofollow attribute to ensure they're not seen by Google as selling links, while many also advocate the use of "nofollow" to prevent bleeding of "link juice" from a page's theme. Hi Eric – pse can you clarify something for me? If one uses the rel=”nofollow” tag for links does it mean SEs don’t follow the link, so in their eyes it doesn’t count as an outbound link?

If that’s the case, then isn’t it possible that links are going to lose their effectiveness as a way for SEs to judge a website’s “authority”?

I ask this as it seems more and more webmasters will use the nofollow attribute to ensure they’re not seen by Google as selling links, while many also advocate the use of “nofollow” to prevent bleeding of “link juice” from a page’s theme.

]]> By: Chuck http://www.memwg.com/google-cracks-down-on-link-buying/comment-page-1/#comment-1964 Chuck Tue, 04 Dec 2007 21:14:30 +0000 http://www.memwg.com/google-cracks-down-on-link-buying/#comment-1964 I know there are two sides to this story...and I think there's plenty of room to criticize Google (and probably always will be), but I don't really think this request is that unreasonable. If you want to protect the integrity of search results, a little cooperation doesn't seem to be asking all that much. Plus, by cooperating, Google has no excuse to not get the results straightened out...and I feel like they've got a long way to go (although, to be fair, they've been relatively kind to my sites)...so we gain some leverage to hold them accountable. I know there are two sides to this story…and I think there’s plenty of room to criticize Google (and probably always will be), but I don’t really think this request is that unreasonable. If you want to protect the integrity of search results, a little cooperation doesn’t seem to be asking all that much.

Plus, by cooperating, Google has no excuse to not get the results straightened out…and I feel like they’ve got a long way to go (although, to be fair, they’ve been relatively kind to my sites)…so we gain some leverage to hold them accountable.

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