Comments on: To Follow or Not to Follow: The SEO/Google Saga Continues http://www.seodesignsolutions.com/blog/internet-news/to-follow-or-not-to-follow-the-seogoogle-saga-continues/ Thu, 09 Feb 2012 11:24:21 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 hourly 1 By: SEO, Multiple Indices and a Reorder of Relevance | SEO Design Solutions http://www.seodesignsolutions.com/blog/internet-news/to-follow-or-not-to-follow-the-seogoogle-saga-continues/comment-page-1/#comment-39862 SEO, Multiple Indices and a Reorder of Relevance | SEO Design Solutions Wed, 24 Jun 2009 13:37:26 +0000 http://www.seodesignsolutions.com/blog/internet-news/to-follow-or-not-to-follow-the-seogoogle-saga-continues/#comment-39862 [...] away from dependency on the co-occurrence / link graph model as an indicator of trust with the no-follow conundrum, it is too early to speculate what the end result will be and which websites remain in the [...] [...] away from dependency on the co-occurrence / link graph model as an indicator of trust with the no-follow conundrum, it is too early to speculate what the end result will be and which websites remain in the [...]

]]> By: Rick Harris http://www.seodesignsolutions.com/blog/internet-news/to-follow-or-not-to-follow-the-seogoogle-saga-continues/comment-page-1/#comment-38755 Rick Harris Tue, 09 Jun 2009 14:12:50 +0000 http://www.seodesignsolutions.com/blog/internet-news/to-follow-or-not-to-follow-the-seogoogle-saga-continues/#comment-38755 Another thought/question related to this. In reading earlier notes on the Google Algo, it said since pagerank is in effect "leaked" when you do off site links, external links should be kept to a minimum. It also said that putting these links from as few pages as possible was preferred. Conversely, I have read (and I think you noted something like this as well) that external links to authoritative sources increase your authority via theme relevancy. In what situations do you think each of these are true? And given the above, even without retaining page rank by using no follow (if the current page rank/no follow changes are true), wouldn't it be wise to no follow external links to avoid "leaking" your existing page rank? For example, We're redoing some websites right now where we have many links for users to download say a flash player and was trying to decide whether to no follow them or not. Another thought/question related to this. In reading earlier notes on the Google Algo, it said since pagerank is in effect “leaked” when you do off site links, external links should be kept to a minimum. It also said that putting these links from as few pages as possible was preferred. Conversely, I have read (and I think you noted something like this as well) that external links to authoritative sources increase your authority via theme relevancy. In what situations do you think each of these are true?

And given the above, even without retaining page rank by using no follow (if the current page rank/no follow changes are true), wouldn’t it be wise to no follow external links to avoid “leaking” your existing page rank?

For example, We’re redoing some websites right now where we have many links for users to download say a flash player and was trying to decide whether to no follow them or not.

]]> By: Jeffrey Smith http://www.seodesignsolutions.com/blog/internet-news/to-follow-or-not-to-follow-the-seogoogle-saga-continues/comment-page-1/#comment-38625 Jeffrey Smith Sat, 06 Jun 2009 20:22:40 +0000 http://www.seodesignsolutions.com/blog/internet-news/to-follow-or-not-to-follow-the-seogoogle-saga-continues/#comment-38625 Hi Rick: To answer your question,I think it is too early to see what real impact this has. At this point its all about testing, testing and testing some more. In a perfect world, we could just omit using a keyword altogether by using an image without an alt to pass link flow but not a negative shingle, or go old java could come in handy again. I concur with your logic, use multiple variables on a larger scale (in the place of nofollow) or resort to using robots.txt for blocking link flow or at least good old javascript (on) click code /format. I am sure there will be chatter about this topic for the next few weeks, in the meantime, perhaps its time to run some beta testing to get a firm grip on what happens when you perform some split testing. All the best.... Jeffrey Hi Rick:

To answer your question,I think it is too early to see what real impact this has. At this point its all about testing, testing and testing some more.

In a perfect world, we could just omit using a keyword altogether by using an image without an alt to pass link flow but not a negative shingle, or go old java could come in handy again.

I concur with your logic, use multiple variables on a larger scale (in the place of nofollow) or resort to using robots.txt for blocking link flow or at least good old javascript (on) click code /format.

I am sure there will be chatter about this topic for the next few weeks, in the meantime, perhaps its time to run some beta testing to get a firm grip on what happens when you perform some split testing.

All the best….

Jeffrey

]]> By: Rick Harris http://www.seodesignsolutions.com/blog/internet-news/to-follow-or-not-to-follow-the-seogoogle-saga-continues/comment-page-1/#comment-38622 Rick Harris Sat, 06 Jun 2009 18:50:21 +0000 http://www.seodesignsolutions.com/blog/internet-news/to-follow-or-not-to-follow-the-seogoogle-saga-continues/#comment-38622 Your site is excellent. Do you think that the potential from losing page rank if using internal no follows affects overall internal link strategy? For instance, if it's a matter with page rank of "use it or lose it," would one still be inclined to no follow low value user/search pages like Terms, Privacy, etc. I know Google likes to see some of these but why waste the crawl cycles. Could there be other instances where you either will change your internal linking approach to manage your page rank, or just leave it be random, or as it appears, let Google determine this. Thanks. Your site is excellent. Do you think that the potential from losing page rank if using internal no follows affects overall internal link strategy? For instance, if it’s a matter with page rank of “use it or lose it,” would one still be inclined to no follow low value user/search pages like Terms, Privacy, etc. I know Google likes to see some of these but why waste the crawl cycles. Could there be other instances where you either will change your internal linking approach to manage your page rank, or just leave it be random, or as it appears, let Google determine this.

Thanks.

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