I might be going bonkers. But I have a Firefox stylesheet that reveals which links are nofollow. And ‘m fairly sure that, last time I looked, @ mentions of people’s names weren’t nofollowed – but now are, as this screenshot demonstrates.
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Shownar is a BBC site that tracks the online buzz around the broadcaster’s shows. Despite being paid for out of the licence fee, it’s pulling the wool over bloggers’ eyes by making out that, if you link to it, it will link back – but it’s nofollowing the links.
The BBC should either make them normal links – or be much more transparent about its “you link to us and we’ll link to you” statement.
Want to get your Twitter page doing better in Google for a search on your name? Here’s a way to get a link off the BBC to your Twitter URL.
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The furore over Jan Moir has thrown up several interesting SEO issues. Here’s a basic one – how should you link to something you detest?
The problem with linking
Put simply, Google counts a link to a page / website as a vote for that page / website. So everyone who blogged about, and linked to, Jan [...]
The Mirror has removed some of the links to MoneyExtra that I recently warned looked like paid-for links added for SEO reasons (which would put them in breach of Google’s guidelines).
Of the 11 pages I pointed out: 5 contained links to the MoneyExtra credit card page – 4 have had the MoneyExtra links removed …
Read the full post ...Trinity Mirror has stopped selling paid links without the nofollow tag. Christian Science Monitor has started.
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Is Trinity Mirror selling keyword-rich links on its ic Network without using the nofollow tag? Don’t tell Google …
Read the full post ...A list of authority sites that don’t link fairly.
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