Thank you everybody for reps and positive/negative comments. It just shows that some webmasters are still quite conservative about their attitude towards PageRank. You have to understand that not everything that is posted on WikiPedia is to be regarded as 100% truth. Google is like an iceberg and we are usually only allowed to see the tip So, yeah, I now have more insights to continue my experiments and research; I will keep you posted on the results. Thank you.
This is not a myth Everyone is doing blog commenting for PR and SERP boost. Otherwise I agree with the rest of the article.
"Myth 5: I have to avoiud linking to other sites because this way I will give away my link juice" I think I was always fearing this one for 2 reasons: 1. "giving away my link juice" 2. Having my competitors reveal my tactics I think now I feel more comfortable doing so and having us increase credibility in our customers eyes.
I have a question. In the 9th point the article says something about do follow tags. How to determine will the bots crawl the outbound links or not ?
You just have to check the site's page source to determine this. For example, you find a blog that is relevant to your topic, navigate to the post where there are comments posted already. Click View > Page Source from your browser menu and scroll to the part of the code that displays comments. If the commentator's url (a href tag) contains rel="nofollow", go away, you don't need to comment there Please note that rel="external" if used without "nofollow" still lets the bots through. It is just another way to tell the browser to open a new window. Just like target="_blank". You can also find some dofollow blog lists around DP and Google. Just search for "dofollow blogs". Cheers!
I see there is a fiery debate over your hypothesis here on the forum… Not being an expert I can only say: thank you, I believe the vast majority of your ideas are accurate and will point me in the right direction. Thanks once again!
Pagerank is meaningless. The only thing it's good for is selling links to people who don't understand the concept.
exactly google uses it to occupy the SEO market's time, so that search results are more relevant notice they say it is the "most famous"...but not that it weighs in heavily "part of a much bigger"...lol its become a google practical joke when PR2 sites with less than 100 links show #1 over pr6 and pr7 sites with xx,xxx links, you know PR and backlinks are NOT as important as all teh "SEO BLOGS" will tell ya.
Agree. PR is mainly good for selling and for maintaining you image amongst similar people Yeah, sure. It only shows how multi-faceted SEO is as a science. Concentrate on backlinks and you will miss the things that really do matter! Thanks. Thankee everyone for comments, constructive critics and reps!
Great read mate ... thanks for this ... However I think the NO-Follow is a myth! I get Google coming to my site more from No-Follow as opposed to Do-Follow. To come to think of it, I have yet to see them come from Do-Follow. It wouldn't be hard to track considering there aren't that many out there and I haven't seen them coming from there AT ALL.
I second mackdesi. Nofollow is a myth but m not sure what did they want to achieve from this. This myth alone is, however, responsible for such a boost to link trading business.
Rarewords and others - nofollow is not a myth, but you're misunderstanding its effect. Google does follow "nofollow" links for the purposes of indexing content - so of course you'll see the google bot showing up via nofollow links. The effect of "nofollow" is that Google doesn't count such links for determining your page rank score, and your search rankings. So it has little SEO value as far as Google rankings are concerned. Note that other search engines, like Yahoo and MSN, DO count nofollow links for ranking purposes, so they don't have zero SEO value. Yahoo and MSN account for about 16% of searches, which is a non-trivial amount. THis explains the continuing comment spam even on nofollow blogs.