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 [Mattcutts.com] Matt Cutts: Gadgets, Google, and SEO » Bot Obedience: Herding ...: I think Graywolf posted an example of an (MSDN?) page where it looked like we’d followed a nofollow link, but when we dug into it, it looked like the link had been a “follow” link for a long time, and MSDN had just added nofollow tag afterwards.

 [Seroundtable.com] The Bot Obedience Course - New Yahoo! Site Explorer Tool Announced: They show the blog posts from Yahoo Search Blog and Loren Bakers blog from 7.28.2006 - where you should see up to 25% reduced load on your sites. He asks who have seen a reduction of load, and about 1.5 people raised their hands out of hundreds.

[Tips1001.com] » Bot Obedience: Herding Googlebot :: isulong seoph contest ...: htaccess or robots.txt (at a directory level) or meta tags (at a page level) to be safe. I’ve seen people try to sculpt Googlebot visits at the link level, and they always seem to forget and miss a few links.

 [MetaContents » Interactive Search Engine Marketing and Optimization] Bot Obedience School: Sit Google Sit!!!: In Matt’s most recent post, he blogs on “Bot Obedience: Herding Googlebot” through the use of .htaccess, robots.txt, nofollow, and URL removal tool.

[ - The Blog of the Infamous Joeychgo] Bot Obedience: Herding Googlebot: I noticed a useful session at the upcoming Search Engine Strategies conference in San Jose. In exactly a month there will be a Bot Obedience class.

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