Archive for "nofollow"

I recently came across an interesting thread on the WebmasterWorld forum which has generated plenty of discussion.

The topic being, what would you change in the Google search algorithm?

Some of the changes that forum members would make include:

• Don’t penalize paid links, just don’t let them pass link juice
• Make penalties permanent
• Kill the nofollow attribute
• Modify the

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According to a post on WebProNews, Microsoft has admitted a problem with Bing whereby pages marked as NoIndex or NoFollow are being accessed incorrectly.

NoIndex/NoFollow are Meta Tags that can be used to advise search engine spiders to avoid indexing a web page. There are a number of reasons why you might want to use these…

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Google’s revealed that the advanced SEO practice of PageRank sculpting will be far less effective as it’s changed the rules on nofollow.

For those of you unfamiliar with the concept of PageRank sculpting, here’s a brief explanation.

Let’s assume we have a web page that carries a Google PageRank of 8. (PageRank is Google’s assessment of a

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