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The comments provide food for thoughts IMO. Thanks to the commentators, and thanks Shaun for the great honoring sphinn :)
IMO the right way would have been to compute Google's opinion on particulary links in the black box. Bothering webmasters with rel-nofollow was wrong. Now that's out, assigned to 3% of the Web's hyperlinks and often misused, it became a pandemic disease that search engines cannot control. There's only one way out of the dilemma: dump rel-nofollow support.
I won't miss PageRank sculpting. I do have a problem with Google telling us that links assumed to get rendered only client sided aren't safe to the linkspam algos any more, without telling us that ancient links that are unavoidable from a webmaster's POV but disliked by Google (aff links, unrelated intercompany linkage, and a zillion of other links-not-meant-as-votes we had to hide from Google on their request) are still safe. Judging by the age of such links should be a doable way to separate the intend of --for any reasons "questionable"-- links by technology used for their implementation (read: technology used to express intend for the lack of better approaches at the time of implementation) when technology changes on the Web and Google has to assign juice to links formerly not counted for rankings. By the way, Google's first recommendation "hide links from Googlebot with JavaScript" is way older than the paid-links debate.
Amen to that. Thanks Jill :)
As for "designers vs. developers" ... SEO-wise that's discussing the difference between werse and worse.
Story: Dump your self-banning CMS
Story: Dump your self-banning CMS
Thanks for your support folks!
Related article: http://sphinn.com/story/113434
Edward, I apologize. I'm sooo used to get called 'Seb' and I hate it, too.
Depends on the number of folks you're stalking. With a dozen or more I'd use the pipe thingy.
Coz I'm too busy during the week, usually. Can't follow Twitter all day long. Or call it greed. ;)
Actually, hiring an SEO/SEM genius who brilliantly covers each and every task might be somewhat tricky. What's true for cute algos applies to (SEO) services too: Does it scale? With a tiny site a one man show SEO can get away with broad and not that detailled technical skills. With larger sites that's a completely other story. Here we work in teams with highly skilled technical SEOs on board. Thus, the skills asked for solely depend on the particular job. At the end of the day success is scored by the client's earnings. Personally, I do think that an SEO w/o solid technical knowledge is kinda misplaced.
Story: SEMMYS: where was Europe?
Story: SEMMYS: where was Europe?
Ian, an URI never crawled by Google due to a robots.txt block can accumulate pageRank, and can get indexed.
Story: Spam on Sphinn
Story: Spam on Sphinn
Until a moderator thankfully nukes their crap, Ed. Good to see that the beast is maintained.
So, now both of our profiles get indexed faster, hehe. Oh wait, they're indexed since Sphinn's stone age ...
Story: Crawling vs. Indexing
Story: Crawling vs. Indexing
> "The meta tag method is nice to have, but not practically, IOW more or less propaganda."
That addresses meta tags for each and every SEO tool out there. In the same comment I said I do use meta tags to steer the indexing of search engines, but can't be bothered to implement on-the-page indexer directives for everybody.
Of course I agree, they should provice both.
From a technical POV:
NOINDEX (provided by a HTTP header or META tag) is not suitable to keep me out, because LinkScape needs to recrawl the page to see this directive, and that can be in 30 or 60 days or never.
As long as there's no crawler directive obeyed by Google, Yahoo, and all other service providers that do the actual crawling, and no timely refetch of each and every page/domain requested by any user, there's no working way to opt out.
Correct?
Story: How to handle a machine-readable pandemic that search engines cannot control