Targeting Spam > Search engines ranking with nofollow
[Pick Brains: Front Page] What search engines imply and do can be different. In 2001, Inktomi let it slip that pages rank lower if the url is manually added.
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[Drupal.org] Disable RSS feed or remove RSS feeds from Search Engines | drupal.org: You should be aware that inktomi (Yahoo) recently bought http://blo.gs and inktomi automatically injects your feed to that page.
[Jimboykin.com] SEO FAQ's - Jim Boykins Internet Marketing Blog: A few days ago Marc had an original idea of putting big name SEO’s head to head for voting….in a sense, it was perfect link bait for the SEO community….now if someone would do the same with big name bloggers (pitting them head to head), you’d get even more link (since bloggers just love to link) … opps, did I just give away an idea to Andy who’s offering up to $1000 for link bait ideas?
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[Metamend.com] Meta Tags for Search Engine Optimization - Metamend: An example of the wrong usage is content="index, follow, all" - wrong because some spiders can't handle spaces between the words in the tag or the word "all". Most engines by default assume that you want a web page to be indexed and links followed, so using the wrong syntax can actually result in the spider coming to the wrong conclusion and penalizing, or worse, ignoring the page outright.
[seo] Meta Tags- What Are They and Which Search... : Defining Meta Tags is much easier than explaining how they are used, and by which engines. The reason is very few engines clearly lay out what they do and do not look at, and how much emphasis they put on any one factor.
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