Search Engine Optimization (SEO) Blog

First of all you need to what exactly is a Nofollow link. This is particular HTML Value that is often used to give some information to the search engines. They are meant to tell the search engine if they should follow the link or not. This is a good way to control the web traffic according to your wish.

The Nofollow links are great options to stop spam and prevent the false indexing of a web page in the search engine results. There are many Nofollow links that are being used in the posts now-a-days. This is done when it is known that the content of that particular post is threatening for the entire site.

Where to use the Nofollow links?

There are certain cases wherein you are allowed to or you should use the Nofollow links. Whenever you feel that the number of outgoing links has become bigger than it is required you can attach a Nofollow link to the posts.
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We all know how hard it is to come back backlinks to our web sites, now that the web is a hugely-crowded space and spam is clogging half the pipes. So you've got the option of buying links (if you want to take the risk), directory submissions (limited effectiveness) and article publishing (time-intensive).

One of the best remaining options is commenting on do-follow blogs. Again, this can be utilized for spam by junk comments…but most do-follow bloggers are forced to manually approve their comments…and it won't be approved anyway. So…why not take 5 minutes to read the blog post and contribute something of value (an opinion, an insight or a personal experience)? The blogger will appreciate (and approve) your contribution, and you'll benefit from the backlink to your site.

But…how do you find these magical do-follow blogs? There are TONS of lists out there on various blogs and sites…but most are woefully out of date.

The best one we've found is a new directory, called The Rise Above Directory. Hundreds of blogs, confirmed as do-follow, categorized for your convenience…even ranked by Google PR. However, don't fall into the trap of just commenting on high-PR blogs. That's the kind of tactic that appeals to link-sellers…which isn't a very good long-term investment in the first place. Instead, find a good blog and support it with a comment or two. It's PR will rise in time and you'll benefit as well. Plus, the lower-PR posts are less likely to have comments…i.e., fewer links to erode whatever link juice is available.

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Teoma is the search engine that powers Ask. In early 2006, Ask killed the Teoma brand and the Teoma.com website, but Teoma is still the search technology used to power Ask.

The core of the Teoma search technology is based upon the idea that society and the Internet consist of tiny communities that self-organize themselves into hubs and authorities.

Hubs and Authorities

An authority is a site that is linked to by many sites and pages covering that topic. A hub links to many relevant topical sites. It is said that a good authority has links from many good hubs, and good hubs link to many good authorities.

If you read search engine papers and information mining topics such as latent semantic indexing and multi-dimensional scaling, you can learn how some of those technologies are similar to what Teoma does. LSI works at understanding word relationships, but Teoma looks at understanding link relationships between pages within communities.
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The most time-consuming part of SEO is building a linking campaign. Tools or ideas that help us save time doing this are extremely valuable.

You can classify domain extension or specific site ideas when searching for potential links:

In Google you are not able to use the "link": function with other advanced search operators at the same time; in Yahoo! or MSN you can.

Filtering out a site can be exceptionally helpful. If there is a specific site that is clouding up your link search, you can filter them out by placing "-site:www.whateverevilsite.com" in your search string.

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Google is harder to manipulate than the other search engines, and Google tends to trust new sites much less than their competitors do. If you run a new website, do not expect to rank well in Google for competitive queries until AFTER you rank well in Yahoo! and MSN.

If you have an old, well-trusted domain but have not focused on SEO yet, then doing simple things like fixing up your page titles and gaining a few authoritative or descriptive inbound links might be all you need to do.
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One of the first thing that normal webmasters do after building a site or blog is to build links. Link building is one of the most important part in the search engine optimization process. In the old days, webmasters build links by exchanging links (reciprocal linking) but since Google changed their algorithm, one way links are so much more better than reciprocal links.

Since Google changed the algo's, many new (and experienced) webmasters had a problem. Finding natural or free one-way link(s) for a new site or blog is nearly impossible. Unless you're blog or site is providing a service or web tool that a lot of people use, getting one way links is nowhere near possible.

The solution? You'll have to buy one way links. Although some webmasters agree that it is not ethical to buy links, most webmasters choose to ignore this and it seems that the process of buying links is now on the 'grey' side of SEO.

If you want to have a look at how much it really cost to get one way links, have a look at http://www.4th-media.com/link_building/. I'm sure you'll be pretty surprised

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Google using multiple algorithms in conjunction can allow them to place exceptional positive bias on links that fit most or all their bolt on relevancy boosting algorithms. This means the best links are those from the following places:

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Rewriting an article is an ability that many writers think they have, but very few in reality, do. The need for rewriting an article could encompass many reasons, and the methodology used to attack the task will in the main depend on the motives and the requisite outcome, but each will have their very own pros and cons, so let's have a look.

The first reason we will look at is the case of article directory submissions. The preparation of a rewritten adaptation of a previously commissioned article in order to obtain two articles instead of one, allows for one version to be placed on a website, for example, and the rewritten one could be submitted to the various article directories. The reasons for doing this are to offshoot the disadvantages of competing with other people utilising the exact same content. On article directories, although gaining valuable backlinks through the resource box, one is actually challenging for keywords against all the other websites that are using the very same article. One could then be faced with the problem of duplicate content and all that particular scenario entails.
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When the supplemental index was first launched Google labeled the supplemental results. SEOs came up with hacks for figuring out how many supplemental results different websites had, and after they got popular Google disabled them and removed the supplemental results label.

Google has an auxiliary index where it stores some documents it may not trust enough to include in its regular index. Supplemental search results are used to provide search results when not enough regular search results are available. Why do sites get put in the supplemental results?
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