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Cloak Your NoFollow Links for GoogleBot
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Moderator Went Hot: Sep 11, 2007 - 07:43 am
Posted By: rustybrick 882 Days ago
Source: http://www.seroundtable.com
Category: Link Building
Seems like some publishers are hiding the fact that they are nofollowing their paid links from their advertisers. So when GoogleBot sees the link, it is nofollowed, but a normal user does not see the nofollow attribute.
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from fantomaster 882 Days ago #
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So much for cloaking being an activity adopted only by evil black hat search engine spammers - LOL.

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from Justilien 882 Days ago #
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Good one fantomaster! I bet Google is happy with this :) They might even start suggesting it to webmasters LOL

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from fantomaster 882 Days ago #
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Well, if they need to hire some cloaking expertise, I might try and fit it in somewhere. Not holding my breath, though. :)

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from JohnWeb 882 Days ago #
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"Make your site for users not search engines" so they used to say, now of course it’s your duty to make the page for search engines and use the nofollow, cloaking is just taking that a step further, really making the site for users and serving up the search engine what they’ve been begging to see.

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from MattMcGee 882 Days ago #
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It’s amazing the things you discover when you surf the web as Googlebot.....

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from vincevincevince 881 Days ago #
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It would be much easier if Google provided an addition to Webmaster Tools which allowed you to list all your paid links... that way it would be easy for everyone to provide the information without having to upset anyone or add proprietary tags to their pages.

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