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NoFollow and PageRank Sculpting is it Worth the Effort?

Sphinn / Hot Todayhttp://sphinn.com/story/80549 [Sphinn / Hot Today] Google have downplayed the importance of PageRank sculpting and Graywolf follows this up with a useful analogy.

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September 26, 2008

SEO, Google and Using the rel=nofollow attribute on Links

Darrin Ward[Darrin Ward] Furthermore, it should be noted that the Google PageRank (PR) formula is a form of probability calculation. Its fundamental purpose is to analyze the link structure of the Web and determine the probability that a given user will land on a specific page (page X).

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September 19, 2008

SEO : Simple review about the "nofollow" tag

kuanhoong dot comhttp://www.kuanhoong.com/2008/09/19/seo-simple-review-about-the-nofollow-tag/ [kuanhoong dot com] The basic concept of the nofollow is to notify Google search bots do not credit any links with a rel=”nofollow” tag attached to them. Google advised webmasters to nofollow all the unwanted, unrelated links so that Google could improve their searches, by eliminating any false links.

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August 22, 2008

A Criticism of NoFollow Links: Why You Should Not Use Them

Barry Wise[Barry Wise] Unfortunately, the use of nofollow tags has really impeded the original concept behind the open and free exchange of ideas on the Internet.  Since so much traffic is dependent on Google today (and one can argue that the Internet as a whole is way too overly dependent on Google) the excessive use of nofollow tags hurts everyone’s chances of ranking well in Google.  And by everyone, I mean the majority of website owners which own relatively small sites and blogs.  As a result, there is less traffic to all our sites, which means less exchange of ideas.

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Posted at 04:35 PM

August 04, 2008

Knol's Nofollowing Of Links

Google Blogoscopedhttp://blogoscoped.com/archive/2008-07-24-n22.html [Google Blogoscoped] In a Knol article, at first glance, you won’t see the nofollow attribute if you look for it in links. There’s also nothing in the robots.txt which would prevent spidering of Knol content, and in fact, filling knowledge gaps in Google results was one of the proclaimed main aims for Google to build Knol.

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July 18, 2008

Live Search Referral Spam

Carlo Mendozahttp://xiirus.net/articles/article-live-search-referral-spam-m8ig0.aspx [Carlo Mendoza] This blog gets decent traffic from Google and Yahoo!, and a little bit from Live, but Live is just an oddball. I thought I was getting traffic from people actually using the search engine, but my instinct said otherwise.

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May 26, 2008

City Social Marketing on Nofollow, Google and Spam”¦ Oh My!

Untitled[Untitled] This seemed as a wrong, or misleading, explanation of what the attribute of Nofollow does, so I checked it out. I began with a site called The Official Google Blog and on that site I found an article entitled Preventing Comment Spam .

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May 02, 2008

add NoFollow to WordPress Blogroll

microblog[microblog] As suggested by Google, it’s best to use rel=”nofollow” to avoid any potential backlash from the external links in the blogroll. However, I should also mention that there is some very strong criticism against it as well.

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March 31, 2008

Google Calendar Target of Spammers?

The Real Estate Bloggershttp://www.therealestatebloggers.com/2008/03/24/google-calendar-target-of-spammers/ [The Real Estate Bloggers] If you are like me, Google Calendar has become a major part of your life. Our family all uses it and it has made scheduling issues much easier to deal with as my wife has her calendar, I have mine, and then we have the massive one with the boys schedules on it.

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February 29, 2008

Google Sites Jumps the rel=nofollow Shark

Kevin Burton's NEW FeedBloghttp://feedblog.org/2008/02/28/google-sites-jumps-the-relnofollow-shark/ [Kevin Burton's NEW FeedBlog] I’m glad Kevin is saying nofollow is not the web (outside of the blogs and comments it was designed for) and in this world view you can only give Google Juice and it doesn’t give back. Such a view and action only favors those in a dominant network position.

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February 08, 2008

Google Groups Comment Spam

Andy Beard - Niche Marketinghttp://andybeard.eu/2008/02/google-groups-comment-spam.html [Andy Beard - Niche Marketing] Due to all the spam, Google.com ends up on my domain blacklist, and a single URL occurrence will still allow it to be visible within my standard settings for comment moderation, as long there are no other specific penalties imposed by Spam Karma.

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January 27, 2007

Wikipedia Adds Google nofollow

[Clickfire Webmaster News] Search Engine Journal has confirmed that Google methods of avoiding spam are being integrated into Wikipedia. The nofollow attribute introduced by Google in 2005 was originally intended to hamstring blog comment spam and has since been the source of much wrangling and discussion by SEO’s as to what exactly it does and which search engines have truly adopted the standard.

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December 23, 2006

Nofollow | Preserving Google Juice

http://andybeard.eu [ Andy Beard] I do appreciate the gesture of being added to a blogroll, but I would much prefer my readers to retain just that little bit more pagerank.

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Posted at 04:09 AM

December 17, 2006

Google Docs & Blog Spam

[Spam Whackers Blog] I’m sure Google does not support blog spam. I have 4 attempts to spam this blog and  each one list google docs as a URL. Here are a couple of examples. Name: buy tramadol | URI: http://docs.google.com/View?docid=ddsdxq | IP: 85.25.141.60 | Date: December 11, 2006 buy tramadol”¦ Buy tramadol Buy cheap tramadol online. Buy cheap tramadol online. Generic tramadol Name: buy zoloft | URI: http://docs.google.com/View?docid=ddsdxq | IP: 85.25.141.60 | Date: December 11, 2006 buy zoloft”¦ Buy zoloft Buy cheap zoloft online. Buy cheap zoloft online. Generic zoloft”¦ These spam attempts bypass the registration process but fortunately they do not bypass the fact that all first time post have to be moderated. Either the URLs were invalid to begin with, or Google has already shut them down...

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December 07, 2006

Spam Volumes Increased This Week?

http://www.connectedinternet.co.uk [Connected Internet] I deliberately don’t clean out my Google Mail spam folder so that I can see a rolling number for the number of spam messages I received over the last 30 days.

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September 14, 2006

Adsense, referrer spam and empty pages

Spamhuntresshttp://spamhuntress.com [Spamhuntress] It recorded the top referrers and the number of referrers. I’ll redact the subdomains, and include the counts - from the Google cache on 15 Aug 2006 05:55:45 GMT:

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August 31, 2006

Bot Obedience

SEO Buzz Boxhttp://www.seobuzzbox.com [SEO Buzz Box] Bot Obedience July 08th 2006 Posted to Google News Just incase you forgot about Google’s Matt Cutts (and his blog) when he went away on vacation he is...

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April 27, 2006

Google Hosted E-mail (beta) Review

http://www.transmit.net/vh [Vitriolic Humor] Setup was very easy, some changes are required to your DNS MX records (remember your password for your account with your registrar?) for your domain to point e-mail to Google's servers. Once this has been completed (and propagated) you can log into the management interface, setup e-mail accounts, e-mail lists (think aliases) and make some minor changes to the interface (choose a background color, include your logo.) Once you've created the accounts everything is ready to go, it works just like Gmail.

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Posted at 04:14 AM

Clever, google

http://8stars.org/a [Random Neural Misfirings] Here's what so interesting: in the synopsis, that “contact” link is converted to “adamrice at this domain name,” which comprehensible to a human, but opaque to a bot (I think). What this means that A) Google's bot is parsing javascript, B) Google is comparing the address to the domain where it appears, and making substitutions as appropriate, and C) somewhere in the very clever depths of Google, somebody decided it was more useful to show the linked text (that is, my e-mail address, with the above-noted changes) than the linking text (that is, “contact”).

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Posted at 04:10 AM

April 24, 2006

Google Continues to Shun Blogspot Users

[Blog Flak - Blog Resources] While Blogger Buzz sings the praises heaped on it from a recent PC World article, Google still seems to be using the “no follow” protocol to stop their own search engine spiders from indexing Blogspot addresses. This is totally unfair to the majority of blogs hosted on Blogspot.

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