Comments for Search Engine Optimization for Site Owners and Small Businesses

Comment on Nofollow in Google, Yahoo and MSN by Debojyoti

Debojyoti — Sun, 18 Oct 2009 19:20:29 +0000

I am absolutely sure that Yahoo does not give any weightage in SERPs from nofollow links. You can read that from Yahoo Help itself. As for Google, I have seen my pages indexed just from a nofollow blog comment on mashable.

The other things you said are pretty true. But the nofollow algo has changed a lot from the time you wrote this post to now in 2009. I think I read something like that from Google.

Thanks anyways

Comment on Image Search by English Dubbed Anime

English Dubbed Anime — Sat, 17 Oct 2009 11:30:52 +0000

Hey,

I’ve been trying to get my website images indexed. I only have something like 7 images out of 800 indexed, and get 0 traffic from them thus far. I have longtail keyword titles, folders, everything.

Any help?

Comment on What do search engine spammers look like? by duz

duz — Tue, 28 Aug 2007 07:04:35 +0000

That is a very good question vingold and I have always thought very carefully about interlinking a client’s network. I don’t think there is a ‘one size fits all’ solution but I do now routinely remove from client’s networked sites all external sitewide links and all inter-network non-contextual links.

Comment on What do search engine spammers look like? by vingold

vingold — Mon, 27 Aug 2007 20:48:55 +0000

I’ve been mulling this over, and here is my question.

Suppose you are not a spammer, but you do have a network of websites all of which are linked to each other through external navigation, footer/site info, etc.

For instance, maybe you run a regional website and all of your sites are related by geography. So you might have a network of 25 websites for Florida - broken out like MiamiBoats.com, FortLauderdaleBoats.com, KeyWestBoats.com, etc.

Also each site has unique content - all original to the site itself and genuinely unique.

If you wanted to promote these sites across other the whole network - is there a better way to do it than by linking to each other through some form of external navigation?

Comment on Hidden Text (Revisited) by duz

duz — Wed, 08 Aug 2007 15:26:33 +0000

I agree randie. Google does not hand review spam reports because they would have to double their staff! The spam reports go into a database which is used for testing the spam detection component of the algo.

Comment on Hidden Text (Revisited) by randie

randie — Tue, 31 Jul 2007 15:34:40 +0000

Hidden text is still almost a regular practice for some webmasters. Especially in my country, Turkey. These webmasters do it for a good reason though: You can spam with literally any method and get away with it. These codes go unnoticed by Google. I don’t understand why Google should index text of 1 pixel, and send visitors to that spammed page just because that 1-px keyword is there. This is 2007 not 1998. Consider this : http://www.modernperdesistemleri.com/resim_galerisi.htm
This site, while unbelievable, ranks #1 for a rather competetive keyword.

Reporting cheaters is the only way left but these reports are never reviewed, at least in last 2 years. Never heard any Turkish site got punished that way either.

Comment on Keyword Research by robstroy

robstroy — Tue, 26 Jun 2007 07:27:34 +0000

Aside from Wordtracker and Keyword Discovery you can also use for your keyword research the KeywordSpy - a keyword research technology that will help you know your competitor’s online marketing strategies.

Comment on The LSI Myth by llimllib

llimllib — Mon, 04 Jun 2007 14:09:07 +0000

I just want to write in to mention that the paper which introduced LSI is a very worthwhile, and surprisingly readable, source.

Comment on Yahoo User Interface Library by protheus

protheus — Tue, 24 Apr 2007 13:57:02 +0000

I haven’t been around for a long time but i’m back now and as usual you give out some new toys. Any new easy to use dhtml is welcome but these tools look the part. I hope to enjoy and implement a few of these in the near future.

Comment on Position and Clickthrough Tool by tophatsolutions

tophatsolutions — Mon, 02 Apr 2007 12:15:28 +0000

Thank You Michael

I will recommend this tool to many people as i see this tool has much potential

Thanks
Stephen