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  SearchAnyway PPC - Online Search Marketing Guide for Webmasters: Since search engines determine the importance of a page by indexing how many other sites link back to it. Now that Google is pushing the nofollow attribute on paid links and Wikipedia has implemented it across the board, the world of SEO is undergoing a dramatical shift. (via Cosmos)

Adwhores.com : Web’s biggest Ad Whores: Allen Stern of CenterNetworks raises the issue of Digg enacting a nofollow policy and what ramifications it may have on attempts to game the social news site in order to receive increased traffic and better search rankings… (via Cosmos)

Cost Per News: A company in our space will soon be releasing a platform which allows for the ability to place affiliate links in bittorrent files. Affiliates will be able to place links and check stats while advertisers will be able to select the placements depending on file type in an automated system which looks very much like a CPA network. (via Cosmos)

  Models World of News: social networking sites will follow Wikipedia’s lead and implement their own nofollow policy. This would help to ease the strain of spam and gaming that occurs on sites such as Digg, Reddit, TailRank and even TechMeme. (via Cosmos)

V7N Search Marketing News.: Paid links - what is a paid link? What isn’t a paid link? The old debate reignites. All Wikipedia links go NoFollow - Wikipedia outbounds can’t be trusted? Yahoo announce new ranking model - Ads will now have a quality component Posted by Peter Da Vanzo @ 10:04 pm PST Filed Under: Search Engines | No Comments (via Cosmos)

Questio Verum: This attribute tells web crawlers like Google that the link has not been vetted, so it will not be used in their algorithms to artificially bolster the ranking of some pages. Wikipedia’s action will seriously reduce the amount of link spam that currently plagues many entries. (via Cosmos)

Bessed: All Wikipedia Links Are Now NOFOLLOW - January 21, 2007 article on Wikipedia making the decision to add a NOFOLLOW code to links on its pages, a move that would prevent those links from potentially gaining higher rankings on Google and possibly other search engines. Wikipedia made the move in an attempt to cut down on people spamming its pages with commercial or irrelevant links purely to gain search engine advantage. (via Cosmos)

Dave Lucas: If you've been contributing: All links on Wikipedia now automatically use the "nofollow" attribute, which means that when Google crawls the site, none of the links it comes across get any PageRank from appearing on Wikipedia. (via Cosmos)

  Peter T Davis: Seriously, my main bone of contention is the ethical - Wikipedia contains no original research and thus should be obliged to link through with a followable link to source documents, otherwise it messes up search algorithms that rely on followable links to avoid a “chicken and the egg” scenario with duplicate content. (via Cosmos)

  Google Blogoscoped: Google now says that instead of the Googlebomb target, they will “typically return commentary, discussions, and articles about the Googlebombs instead.” So how successful are they in that task? (via Cosmos)

  WebProNews - Breaking eBusiness News: Make pages for users, not for search engines, except when we arbitrarily change the rules without notice and don't bother to tell you until after the fact, and don't update our webmaster guidelines to reflect those changes.OK maybe I'm having a little fun at Google's expense, but they have fairly well established history of this kind of hypocritical contradictory approach, my particular favorite comes from Google's Page on SEO where we find this quote: (via Cosmos)

How to Earn Money Blogging - Make Money Blog Resource: my traffic generation exercise with them the moment I got the email and with that my blog traffic was slashed by about 60% almost immediately. To my dismay again, I recently read a shocking announcement on Google Blog about comment spam which I quote: Official Google Blog: Preventing Comment Spam "If you're a blogger (or a blog reader), you're painfully familiar with people who try to raise their own websites' search engine rankings by submitting linked blog comments like "Visit my discount pharmaceuticals site." This is called comment spam, (via Cosmos)

  SearchRank Blog: It should be clear from Google’s stance on paid text links, but if you are blogging and being paid by services like Pay Per Post, ReviewMe, or SponsoredReviews, links in those paid-for posts should be made in a way that doesn’t affect search engines. The rel=”nofollow” attribute is one way, but there are numerous other ways to do paid links that won’t affect search engines, e.g. (via Cosmos)

 [Blog.washingtonpost.com] Microsoft Stabs at Blogspam, Pokes Google - Security Fix: In another Search Defender test, researchers located more than 5,500 spam-related sites on Blog4Ever, nearly all of which used the same Google AdSense affiliate identifier, suggesting the entire network was created by a single comment spammer. The security professionals at SecuriTeam have recently posted a series of links to research on blogspam that make for a very interesting read on the relationship between blogspam and AdSense.

 [Mattcutts.com] Matt Cutts: Gadgets, Google, and SEO: Google isn’t secretive about these tips (http://www.google.com/webmasters/guidelines.html). And the panelists in the session reviewed the sites using tools readily available.

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