The popular Long Island New York newspaper Newsday was penalized by Google for selling text links that pass pagerank. Here is a screenshot of the crazy amount of nofollow tags used by Newsday.com There are nearly 100 no followed links, but it’s quite curious to see which links are still passing PR. Semi related links…
DMOZ the open directory that gets huge exposure from prominent position as the Google directory is blogging. DMOZ bloggers are publishing major PR for their directory to encourage quality submissions and keep the project alive. I applaud this. The comments below are from their blog post and seem out of synch with most DMOZ editors…
The questions all upcoming webmasters and SEO’s ask themselves: Should I ask for links or not? Can I get targeted paid ads/reviews? Are relevant reciprocal links worth the effort? The short answer is: anything you do to your website that benefits your users will also help you in the search engines. If this means getting…
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The search for links is a never ending quest by search engine optimizers, and we can use all the help we can get. Thankfully many talented SEO’s have created helpful tools for link building and analyzing competitor backlinks. Using these tools we can refine the manual process for finding high quality backlinks. Search here for…
Yahoo site explorer is the best tool to use to find incoming links to your site, and without them SEO’s would not know much about the strategic link building practices of their associates. Recently yahoo started showing erratic backlink results and caused much speculation in the SEO world that they were on the verge of…
Oh yeah, Jim Boykin and the crew from webuildpages.com sent out free clocks and I had to take a photo of mine. WeBuildPages is a link baiting firm that is run by the self proclaimed link ninja, and has been providing high end link building campaigns since 2001. I’m a big fan of linkbuilding through…
Dmoz, where art thou? Thou hast forsaken your loyal users and contributors and become a tyrannical organization. Dmoz.org founder Rich Skrenta opines on the ongoing internal struggle of the open directory, and how many problems could be related to retaliation by Time Warner employees over the failed merer with AOL.com. Skrenta admits that dmoz is…
Links are the foundation of PageRank and modern search engine algorithms. For your site to rank well you need to be on the receiving end of lots of links. Some pages will send authority voting power attached to outbound links, and some pages do not. As a link builder you need to know which pages…
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