Guardian hides user profiles from google. An SEO trick? 2
Posted on
August 12, 2008 by
Malcolm Coles
If you look at your user profile at guardian.co.uk, it looks like this:
That all looks OK - even a nice URL to link back to my homepage. How very kind.
But if javascript is off ...
Only if you look at the HTML, there's not really a link there at all. Just some wierd javascript that goes off and gets the URL. But only, obviously, if javascript is turned on.
So what google sees is this:
Why? Some sort of SEO trick to avoid linking out to other sites, as per my previous post?Â
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Hi - not related to this sepcifically - but read your comments regarding the CIF website - specifically in relation to the DDA.
I have been banging on about this since the day it launched. Pointedly and vociferously. Without any response. Anyway - drop me a line if you want - and we can rant at each other a bit.
Sorry for the off-topicness
I started registering and thought it could be a nice link to have, but well spotted.