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Published: Sep 08, 2008 - 10:05 am
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News Source: http://www.mattcutts.com
Published: Sep 08, 2008 - 10:05 am
Story Found By: Kimota 1355 Days ago
Category: SEM
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This was really egg on the SEOs, you sure you want this on the home page?Any time a bunch of SEOs cluster anywhere it’s like painting a bullseye on the service for Google to come and investigate if it’s being gamed.
"it’s like painting a bullseye on the service for Google to come and investigate if it’s being gamed."You would think, but google Adam L was, here, a few comments back. Probably found sphinn mentioning his blog by way of Google. Too many employee benefits, I guess for the googlers to give a hoot?
You are absolutely right, Bill. It was interesting on twitter that day. I was getting all kinds of crap from people who were upset that their precious twitter bio links were no long good, because I agreed with what Twitter did. Heck, we all knew it was only a matter of time before they would close that loophole.
Wait, but I thought Google was "coercing companies like Twitter based on threats of dropping them from their index for non-compliance"...
Why somebody gave Jill a negative vote on her above comment? In fact I like Jill’s comment and I’m giving the lady a positive vote therefore :-)
seems silly to be crying about getting a nofollow link from what is basically a glorified instant messaging program.
The Twitter link is not a nofollow link it’s no link at all. They dropped the baby with the bathwater. I had my bio linked in the "bio" http://twitter.com/onreact_com and now you have to copy and paste the link URL to "click". Let’s kill hypertext so that spammers can’t game it ;-) Have you ever seen spammers gaming books or newspapapers? No, the link must be abolished to save the Interwebs from the evil black hats.
Tad, you’re amusing :)
I dont get it! how can you guys side with Google on this? Thats just stupid!The point is not the link on Twitter, it is the fact that they are throwing their weight around to make up for a loop hole in their system. Whats next that they ask wordpress or blogger to put no follows on all links? cmon open your eyes..
steaprok, glad to see not everyone here or on the web feels a bow to Google is required or you lose a place in line, some of the "big bloggers" have started to show their lack of reality in SEO.
I agree with steaprok and dthurman...If you want spammers away you need good aministrators who will ban there IP... One of my friends wanted to spam on digg - he ended his IP was banned...
lmao. ban their IP? If only that was all the "good administrators" would do.
@onreact - "Have you ever seen spammers gaming books or newspapapers?"Yes, look for all the junk ads in paper that phish the poor with everything from blatant scams and pyramid schemes to multi-level marketing where you never win like "Earn money stuffing envelopes", "Earn money with your own downline, no selling!", "Earn money..."Personally, I don’t see the problem as I’m still playing with twitter, it’s still amusing, and it works just like it worked before sending SMS which is all it ever claimed to do.People that only used Twitter to get those links, how sad for you all.
The point is not the link on Twitter, it is the fact that they are throwing their weight around to make up for a loop hole in their system.That’s the tinfoil hat version, however.
It’s frustrating to find out that Twitter decide to remove the link on the bio field..I just hope they will return it to help their members acquire some of their link juices...that were not possible if not for the members of Twitter, too.
I don’t think this is about loosing the benefits of a link as it is getting involved in other’s businesses and trying to influence (dictate) policy to benefit a company/individual’s crusade. Instead of wasting time going around the hood preaching the gospel why not take the time to cleanup their house first. Google groups and blogger are the buffet of spammers. Several Google groups were hacked in recent days with redirects to porn sites. Complaints were filed, and as usual no action whatsoever. However, they take the time of the day to “alert” other’s how easy target they can become. Give me a break!