"Excellent directory, but youre using rel=follow."

Discussion in 'Search Engine Optimization' started by longhand, Dec 16, 2006.

  1. #1
    DirectoryCritic has dropped submission of my directory(PhpLinkDirectory) with this reason on the subject.
    Then i was going to check META tags of the site and on the robots setting was "index, follow" (so =all).
    Removed finally this meta tag and edited the empty robots.txt on the directory to allow indexing all pages for all robots.
    My questions:
    1. Maybe empty robots.txt caused this problem or it was just a mistake by DirectoryCritic...? I know each subpages dinamically created and rewritten on PHPLD directory but i don't seen any setting where was set to "nofollow" any of my subpages.
    2. Can someone tell me a tool to parse online all pages of a Website to check is it indexable and optimal for robots?

    Thanks in advance for Your responses!

    Regards,
    Longhand
     
    longhand, Dec 16, 2006 IP
  2. alekzo

    alekzo Peon

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    #2
    I think they refer on nofollow attributes of your external links.Please give me the url of your site so I can tell you for sure.
     
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  3. longhand

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    Thanks alekzo!
    Check howtotravel.info
    and
    check downloadlatest.com also pls. i'm interested if there is any differences on the two sites relating this thing.
     
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  4. alekzo

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    I found nofollow attribute only in your site howtotravel.info .
    Check yourself "howtotravel.info/Tavel_Health_Insurance/" where are 2 links (look in page source).
     
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  5. longhand

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    ah, really, thanks!
    Can you advice any tool with which can parse all links?

    Regards,
    Longhand
     
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  6. longhand

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    I know already what happened. By mistake checked 'require reciprocal link' checkbox when added these two links and seems that PhpLD sets to nofollow links while can't find reciprocal link from these sites.
    (nofollow option was unchecked on both).

    ps.
    Still looking for a good parser tool i don't wanna write own program just for this.
     
    longhand, Dec 16, 2006 IP