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[ Andy Beard] Related tags:blogging tips dynamic linking linking strategy nofollow pagerank search engine optimization seo ultimate tag warrior utw wordpress wordpress plugins On my blogs, I prefer not to use nofollow for comments and trackback. It is my belief that if someone adds to the conversation on my blogs, the least I can do is offer them a backlink for their trouble. I prefer people to write a post about me than to add me to their blogroll. I know a blogroll link theoretically gives me more Google Juice, but if they give 200 people a blogroll link, suddenly the value of that link from every page is greatly deminished. It is much better to have noone in your blogroll, and just write about what your friends are doing. If you really want to have a list of blogs belonging to friends, either link to them using nofollow, or stick the links on a seperate "friends" page. The problem with using something like a dofollow plugin is that the more comments you get on a popular post, the more pagerank is...

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http://www.homelandstupidity.us [Homelandstupidity.us] Nofollow revisited - Homeland Stupidity: When Sam spams tons of blogs and sites with links to his sites - which are affiliates of bigger PPC sites - people see the links and, seeking some porn, pills or casino action, click through to his site, and from there to the parent site, which pays Sam for each person landing there. The PPC sites can see revenues of £100,000 to £200,000 per month, says Sam.

[Feedblog.org] Kevin Burton's Feed Blog: nofollow Considered Harmful: One side effect of NoFollow is to decrease the overall impact of blogs on Google's PageRank algorithm(s). Given the unexpected volatility that blog publishing systems, RSS, and related technologies insert into PageRank, NoFollow is good for Google, good for traditional publishers, and bad for bloggers in ways that were not publicly predicted in January.

http://scoble.weblogs.com [Scoble.weblogs.com] Scobleizer: Microsoft Geek Blogger: Yes, it's a PR disaster if you look at it from that angle. But, by releasing our early code to developers we got a lot of feedback that we were heading down the wrong path.

http://blogs.webpronews.com [Blogs.webpronews.com] WebProBlog - Internet Business and Marketing Trends» Blog Archive ...: A new way of backlink spamming may require an link alteration from forum kings, phpBB. A quick post from Phil Lenssen at Google Blogoscoped references this Technorati find, a hack (or a tool, if you will) that does blanket sign-ups with 5000 phpBB forums.

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