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Wordpress by default “nofollows” all links within blog comments. While there are measures that can be taken to remove the rel=”nofollow” from links in Wordpress blog comments, it has typically been “all or nothing.”

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Here's an interesting review of the geo-targeting issues which have been affecting the Google UK SERPs for most of this month. read more »
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About 2 weeks ago Danny Sullivan highlighted that Google follows Javascript links, and that sculpting PageRank using rel=nofollow no longer works. Matt Cutts shared that second bit to the shock and awe of the SEO industry at the recent SMX conferenc read more »
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While bloggers strive to get traffic from search engines, other blogs and the top social media sites; it's hard to deny that a lot of the best quality traffic out there still comes via search. And, if you want to increase your search engine traffic, read more »
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Great post from Ann Smarty looking at how to track Flickr read more »
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So what happens when you have a page with “ten PageRank points” and ten outgoing links, and five of those links are nofollowed? Let’s leave aside the decay factor to focus on the core part of the question. Originally, the five links without nofollow read more »
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No, we don’t have it out for Walmart just like to shop there online! So of course, keeping up with SEO I just happened to stumble across something today. I was looking at deals on the iPod Touch and found some interesting stuff. Checkout these scree read more »
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I [Ann Smarty] have shared a few tools to combine Google and Twitter search. Now it is quite natural that some people would want to add Twitter search to Bing: read more »
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Virginia Nussey writes a guest post on Searchcowboys about the Trademark Policy. Google recently announced that, come June 4, the company would no longer investigate trademark infringement claims based on AdWords trademark bidding in 200 countries a read more »
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Google will penalize you immediately for comment spam links to bad neighborhoods and lift the penalty once the comments get cleaned. Excellent case study. read more »
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Earlier this month, Google’s Matt Cutts sent a shockwave through the advanced SEO community by saying that site owners could no longer perform “PageRank sculpting” using the nofollow tag in the way they’d previously thought. Now Matt’s posted more e read more »
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What I can’t stand is when a search engine tries to tell me how I’ve to link (out).

Dear Googlers, please –WRT to the implementation of hyperlinks– leave us webmasters alone, dump the rel-nofollow crap and rank our stuff in the best interest of y read more »
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Jordan Kasteler covers the possibilities with Google's Social Media PageRank and the variables in InfluenceRank. read more »
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Based on recent discussions on pagerank sculpting and the nofollow tag, the wisest course seems to be to limit the number of comments on a blog. A balance must be struck between useful extra content and pagerank dilution through extra outlinks. read more »
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Matt explains his comments about nofollow links & page rank sculpting. read more »
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Obviously Internet Liberalisation is important to how SEO is implemented, but what do the experts think? I have asked a number of industry experts and professionals to give their opinion. read more »
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Are niche sites dead because of new Google rules on PageRank sculpting? read more »
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You’ve had your domain for a long time and it has served you well. Today, though, you’re looking to expand your online business and the old domain just won’t do the trick. You need something new, fresh and exciting and perhaps you’ve already regis read more »
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Yahoo! recently announced their role in creating and supporting Common Tag, a new semantic tagging format. read more »
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Local marketing bliss is what I want to share! For those of you who own a local business, how would you like to get your business on the first page of Google today? In most cases, you will achieve top 5 results with out any real SEO! What if I told read more »
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Su.pr is allowing webmasters the ability to make Su.pr shortened urls with their own domains. read more »
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Good article by Julie Joyce detailing how using long-tail keywords can "jazz up your link building" efforts with new links and targeted traffic. read more »
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You’re getting ready to announce a new product or service, or you’ve just won the most coveted award in your industry. How do you get the word out? Unless you’re booked on Oprah, it’ll be with a press release.

Here are some tips to optimize your read more »
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John Andrews writes... I just read Google’s self-published “Top Ten Myths About Google Analytics” and I have to say, I thought Google had more integrity than this. Oh sure, everyone knows that marketing departments aren’t always 100% truthful about read more »
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My clients will tell you, I can't stop talking about dayparting. So when this post came across talking about wedging your ads into slots of traffic, I had to Sphinn it. read more »
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