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Get Satisfaction responds to NYTimes' DecorMyEyes Article

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Re: Get Satisfaction responds to NYTimes' DecorMyEyes Article

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Post by InfinityX0 »

"Like any online community that cares to combat spammers, we code our user-submitted links so that Google ignores them for the purposes of calculating page rank (specifically, we attach “rel=nofollow” to anchor tags). Somebody trying to gin up their Page Rank by encouraging complaints on Get Satisfaction would be sorely disappointed."

Uhm.. their links ARE dofollow. Do a quick CTRL+U and then search for "home" and "contact". They both clearly say "Hey, Google, come check me out. The water's fine."

http://getsatisfaction.com/decormyeyescom

EDIT: I see that their reviews are nofollowed, but most of the linkjuice has already been passed by the site in these sidebar links. Additional boost isn't supplied by negative reviews, no, but it is in businesses best interest to submit here so that they can get that linkjuice push.

Re: Get Satisfaction responds to NYTimes' DecorMyEyes Article

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Post by ajays »

rapind wrote: post #4

I applaud the use of rel="nofollow". The New York Times article seemed to blame both Get Satisfaction and Google, at least in the beginning, and that's ridiculous.

I just looked at their page, and both the "contact us" and "home" links don't have "nofollow" in them.

Re: Get Satisfaction responds to NYTimes' DecorMyEyes Article

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Post by Natsu »

ajays wrote: post #24
rapind wrote: post #4

I applaud the use of rel="nofollow". The New York Times article seemed to blame both Get Satisfaction and Google, at least in the beginning, and that's ridiculous.

I just looked at their page, and both the "contact us" and "home" links don't have "nofollow" in them.

Why would they need to put nofollow on links to their own site?

Re: Get Satisfaction responds to NYTimes' DecorMyEyes Article

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Post by getsat »

Natsu wrote: post #26
ajays wrote: post #24

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I just looked at their page, and both the "contact us" and "home" links don't have "nofollow" in them.

Why would they need to put nofollow on links to their own site?

He's referring to this: http://i.imgur.com/KqMcq.png

From here: http://getsatisfaction.com/decormyeyescom

Despite what the blog entry says, they ARE contributing to the problem.

Re: Get Satisfaction responds to NYTimes' DecorMyEyes Article

#30

Post by vamsee »

brianwillis wrote: post #3

Did anyone else find that typeface completely unreadable? Without iReader, I wouldn't have bothered with the article.

+1 for iReader. I had to use it too. I find myself using it surprisingly often, even in this day and age, and even on some UX-savvy websites who should clearly know better.
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