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@chrisharris1 agreed, and it raised a red flag for me because I noticed a bunch of unrelated accounts suffering this today, around the same time. So it is more of a warning that there seems to be a wave going on and get feedback from other people who may have noticed the same.
@imnnotadoctor I AM good looking... Thank you for recognizing that! hahahahaahh
I absolutely does @Jill!! @incrdiblehelp, I feel like you should award 100 extra votes to each of the late editions to make up for the time delay :P hahahahahahaha
Yeah... I agree with the post. The age of conversions is here. You got my attention. I would however, re-phrase from "Are you #1 in Google? It Doesn’t Matter" to "Are you #1 in Google for a generic, one word keyword? That PROBABLY doesn't matter".
In today's market, many business owners still want to rank for their top keywords, when sometimes they're nearly irrelevant when compared to a higher converting, longer tail term. For example, a guy who sells carpets online, in LA, may find his goldmine in a keyword such as "Persian carpets Los Angeles", or "New Persian carpets Los Angeles", rather than "carpets". But for him to HAVE this goldmine, he'll more than likely need that first spot in Google for that long tail keyword.. Don't you think?
@Doubleohd ...yeah, but for you to get the sales, you'll need some kind of traffic volume and conversions come from traffic... so yes and no :)
Has anybody else noticed this? It would probably be an easy patch for the next version of SEO for Firefox...
I've noticed this happen with other sites too. I'll track them and leave a comment on the eVisibility Insider blog fo sho!
Self-submitting makes sense in certain social network sites, so I don't think it's a rule that goes across the board for every social bookmarking site out there.
hmmm.. trackur isn't that great. I thought it would do much more than what it actually does. It basically gets Google Alerts and makes it look fancy and expensive. All that it does is already available for free... and it doesn't save enough time to actually make it worth the cost.
... but then again, I'm a bit of an "el cheapo" myself :)
Nice post! Thank you
Great post, and good awareness piece... I wonder if sites that get awarded the "teleportation" search bar would have the option to opt out within Google Webaster. Sitelinks might be good enough for some websites.
I think it's all in the context and presentation. Some links within comments actually do make sense, are relevant and improve the dialog. Others, like the "Nice post, click here!" type, are crappy and spammy. It's all up to the blog moderator to decide. Even though the majority of the blogs out there use "nofollows" on their comments, you still don't want spam everywhere.
Awesome info for the On Page optimization side of SEO... The "human algorithm" labeling process gives me mixed feelings mainly because it's up to human discretion, but this is great information to have and study.
@beussery: thanks for sharing it!
@SlightlyShadySEO: You've inspired me to read it myself.
@everyone: Does anyone know how long this information has been out and available? I'm not asking how old it is, but for how long it has been out.
Wouldn't this be just another way of receiving a feed? So, now I would have another place to check other than just my RSS feed..
I feel like twitter is meant to be more of a social communicative network rather than a multitude of blog posts from people I don't know.
I like the tool and the intention, but I don't think I'll use it.
I'm curious what a person who knows nothing about SEO would say when trying to read it.. hahahahah "Juanceeojuan?"
@incrediblehelp and @jorjevio - Yahoo does still follow the link, and the other crawlers still see it. The nofollow doesn't block a page from being seen. That can be done through the robots.txt file. The nofollow simply tells the crawlers that you don't want to pass link authority from the link with the nofollow, to where it is pointing. The pages are still visible, and still receiving links from any other place you want within your site, or externally. The purpose of this isn't to cut every page off your site and only keep the highly converting ones. the use of nofollows gives you some control of where you want the link authority to flow to within your site, nothing is being blocked. Typically, I like to use it with pages that truly don't need to rank, like a "Terms of Use", or "Shipping Policy", etc.. I wouldn't want to nofollow tag links to an "About us" page as mentioned above. Hope this helps clarify this further.
I have personally seen awesome results using this strategy.
I'm happy to see that people are finding this useful! And just if you're wondering about who is the guy behind those awesome photoshop skills, it's me. That's right, SEO isn't the only gift I have! ahahahaha.. Having a 5 year old girl makes it easy for a guy like me to think of pink buckets.
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