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Re: Talk about websites without improving their ranking

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Post by joegriff »

gasket wrote: post #8
trevin wrote: post #6

"Don't link to other sites or you'll improve their ranking. Link to mine instead" is pretty much what this site is saying. This is why Google created rel="nofollow"[1] and if you are really worried about where you pass PageRank to it is a much better alternative than linking to some random 3rd party site while passing value back to them. [1] https://support.google.com/webmasters/answer/96569?hl=en

Since the Panda update everybody should be using rel="nofollow" on all outbound links, otherwise you risk getting knocked back to page 100 should any of the sites you ever link to trip a flag that leads google to classify them as a spammer.

This is simply not true. If every outbound link on the internet was "no follow" then Google would have a very very difficult time determining how to rank websites. Links are a quality signal when used properly, so just use them properly.

Don't link out to other sites using anchor text or if you've been paid to place the link and you'll be fine.

If you don't want to pass any value on to a source then why are you linking to them at all? You'll pass traffic but not authority?

Re: Talk about websites without improving their ranking

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Post by grey-area »

gasket wrote: post #10
AznHisoka wrote: post #5

I prefer to let the search engines worry whether a link is supposed to pass link juice or not. I've already given Google my fair share of information these days anyway.

Google isn't worried about your site. They will drop your ranking if they think that is for the greater good. If you are going to link without nofollow then you are trusting every site you link to never do anything that even vaguely looks spammy or like paid linking. If you link to a site that pays for some links (according to google's spam algos) then you will get 'panda slapped' and recovering from that is very har…

It's amusing that Google is opposed to other people using paid links, when their main business is... paid links.

Re: Talk about websites without improving their ranking

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Post by criley2 »

chrismonsanto wrote: post #12

So what happens when this site gets popular and the owner decides to 'punk' all of the other sites by turning it into a content farm? edit: or if they get hacked and the same happens

Or the owner sells it to god knows who for god knows what.

Re: Talk about websites without improving their ranking

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Post by josephjrobison »

gasket wrote: post #8
trevin wrote: post #6

"Don't link to other sites or you'll improve their ranking. Link to mine instead" is pretty much what this site is saying. This is why Google created rel="nofollow"[1] and if you are really worried about where you pass PageRank to it is a much better alternative than linking to some random 3rd party site while passing value back to them. [1] https://support.google.com/webmasters/answer/96569?hl=en

Since the Panda update everybody should be using rel="nofollow" on all outbound links, otherwise you risk getting knocked back to page 100 should any of the sites you ever link to trip a flag that leads google to classify them as a spammer.

You should definitely not rel="nofollow" all outbound links. Do it to sites that have a risk of becoming a spam site maybe, but a quality site usually doesn't become a spam site overnight and you'll do more harm than good to yourself adding by rel="nofollow" to every single outbound link. Google wants you to link out to quality sites so you don't need to nofollow those.

Re: Talk about websites without improving their ranking

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Post by josephjrobison »

gasket wrote: post #10
AznHisoka wrote: post #5

I prefer to let the search engines worry whether a link is supposed to pass link juice or not. I've already given Google my fair share of information these days anyway.

Google isn't worried about your site. They will drop your ranking if they think that is for the greater good. If you are going to link without nofollow then you are trusting every site you link to never do anything that even vaguely looks spammy or like paid linking. If you link to a site that pays for some links (according to google's spam algos) then you will get 'panda slapped' and recovering from that is very har…

Do not always use nofollow.

https://support.google.com/webmasters/answer/96569?hl=en

Re: Talk about websites without improving their ranking

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Post by powertower »

richardwhiuk wrote: post #9
gasket wrote: post #8

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Since the Panda update everybody should be using rel="nofollow" on all outbound links, otherwise you risk getting knocked back to page 100 should any of the sites you ever link to trip a flag that leads google to classify them as a spammer.

Hence Google is probably going to end up ignoring nofollow

For what it's worth, there are many indications that using more than a few no-follow links on your website 1) hurts your SEO standing, and 2) still passes Link Juice to the external website (just slightly less than its do-follow counterpart).

This happened after Google discovered that people were abusing no-follow - by trying to hoard the website's weight and not sharing it with anybody.

Re: Talk about websites without improving their ranking

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Post by Kiro »

gasket wrote: post #8
trevin wrote: post #6

"Don't link to other sites or you'll improve their ranking. Link to mine instead" is pretty much what this site is saying. This is why Google created rel="nofollow"[1] and if you are really worried about where you pass PageRank to it is a much better alternative than linking to some random 3rd party site while passing value back to them. [1] https://support.google.com/webmasters/answer/96569?hl=en

Since the Panda update everybody should be using rel="nofollow" on all outbound links, otherwise you risk getting knocked back to page 100 should any of the sites you ever link to trip a flag that leads google to classify them as a spammer.

I thought Panda worked the other way around by penalizing the linked site, not the site that's linking.

Re: Talk about websites without improving their ranking

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Post by aestra »

chrismonsanto wrote: post #12

So what happens when this site gets popular and the owner decides to 'punk' all of the other sites by turning it into a content farm? edit: or if they get hacked and the same happens

Hacked? More than likely they just drop the service in 10 months because they are a fly by night operation that lacks any plan? Then their domain gets picked up by a content farm.
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