Because I’ve been online since before the web, spam and the September that never ended, my default stance on things net-related has been one of collaboration and openness. If you leave a comment here, I expect that you’re doing it because you’re interested in the conversation, not ...

by Stoney deGeyter Many years ago I put my site through a re-design. I worked hard to make sure everything was done just right, including the images and navigation. But one thing I failed to consider was internal linking, separate from the navigational elements. It wasn't until much later that I rea...

Dave Naylor seems to think it is a good idea to nofollow blog comments. In many ways he is right:- You get increased automated comment spam You get increased spam from outsourced commenting You get increased spam from people using commenting efficiency tools (Comment Kahuna, Comment Hut etc) You get...

Pick a number between 6 and 950 and you'll likely to find evidence, or at least the antecedent number, for a Google ranking penalty. Webmasters and SEOers are in general agreement Google penalizes and have dubbed them according to their numeric reprimand: -6, -30, -60, -950, and so on. Google inadve...

If you don't know what you are doing with nofollow, noindex and robots.txt you can royally mess* things up (face to face I would use a stronger term). Even if you do know what you are doing, you can still mess things up. I can understand why Matt Cutts might want to change what noindex does, it...

Jason Calacanis, CEO of Weblogs 2.0 service Mahalo, has apparently left the world of pissing off SEO folk and is now pissing off affiliate folk. This time he wonders if the search engines (including Google, Yahoo and Mahalo) should ban affiliate links from being indexed. First, how would anyone ev...

Mike Grehan opens this panel by introducing the panel for the organic listings forum.  David Naylor of Bronco Ralph Tegtmeier (Fantomaster) Edward Cowell (Teddy) of Neutralize Steve Johnston of Google Consultant Q:  Client wants to stay on .com, but want to know about other country domains...

Is it true that if you use a nofollow attribute on many of your links, it would raise a red flag at Google in additions to other search engines? Recently, the viewpoint that using the nofollow with the purpose of controlling the flow of links or link juice is a big red flag in the eyes of the search...

Apologies to my regular readers who haven’t been abusing my generousity, but I’ve been forced into turning off ‘dofollow‘ on comments. Too many users are trying to take advantage and it’s taking too much time each day to delete or edit their comments. If users still wan...

Do-Follow List This post has been a long time in coming. I guess you could say that I’m mad as hell and I’m not going to take it no more. I spent about an hour and a half this morning browsing the do-follow list and leaving comments on several blogs. So what’s the problem? Many of ...