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target="_blank" rel="nofollow"> 78 Comments Anthony Feint says: May 17, 2010 at 11:09 am This is a really powerful technique. Home What the F ? Cloud Living Say "Hi!" MORE
target="_blank" rel="nofollow"> 66 Comments book says: May 6, 2010 at 11:11 am Glen, I think, you got the idea for this post from your personal experience. Home What the F ? Cloud Living Say "Hi!" MORE
Forums and Message Boards (the oldest and second-most commonly used forms of social media). In chapter 37, she almost seems to defend the insidious nofollow tag , which has outlived whatever useful life it once had and should be banished. MORE
But maybe the SEO guys at StumbleUpon or Rdio or FOX news don’t realise they can do the same (or at least nofollow it for their own protection). DigitalPoint at that same time had been using their forum members to build up a co-op link exchange which Google publically penalised. MORE
target="_blank" rel="nofollow"> 108 Comments Pat Flynn says: August 4, 2010 at 8:27 am Congrats on the move dude, I’m sure you’ll love it in Thailand! link] Reply Glen says: August 6, 2010 at 6:49 am Head to the services forum in the marketplace. Home What the F ? MORE
Link Building: Avoid Forum Posts John Mueller posted this after someone asked if Reddit comments are dofollow. The guy wrote: “I recently commented on another thread regarding this, and I just did a double-take and Reddit comments indeed appear to not have the "nofollow"-relation? John Mueller’s response: “How does link spam with forum comments work? SEO is a never-ending race and marketers and bloggers know that. MORE
Avoid posting links on random or affiliated websites rather nofollow the link or remove them. Some of the other common sources of spammy links are Forum Profiles, Blog comments, Social bookmarks and paid links. Participating in various forums irrespective of the topic should be avoided. Commenting on some random blog post or forum just to create links is not an advisable practice. MORE
target="_blank" rel="nofollow"> 126 Comments Dan says: July 19, 2010 at 8:24 am Too cool Glen, I find myself copy and pasting every article to all my web guys. They are mostly profiles, forum links and blog posts which are high PR do follow. Home What the F ? Cloud Living Say "Hi!" MORE
Just like in any industry, SEO has a lot of misleading information on blogs and forums. You might read on a forum that all backlink are good or perhaps read a case study about how fantastic blog networks are. Meta nofollow. MORE
There are a number of great networks specifically built for bloggers for the purpose of bookmarking, forums, groups, and networks. Forum Signatures. If you’re active in forums, such as Bloggeries , ProBlogger , or other blogging communities, be sure to add your blog to your forum signature. Even if it is nofollow or not visible to the public, you will get some significant traffic from other members if you are a valuable contributor. MORE
You can see I quickly got to work trying to analyse where I thought the problem lied (with a lot of help from Diggy too): It’s also what we’ve been preaching in the forums for weeks now, but I wanted to do a lot more testing before I ran a blog post about it. Penguin 2.1 MORE
Just like in any industry, SEO has a lot of misleading information on blogs and forums. You might read on a forum that all backlink are good or perhaps read a case study about how fantastic blog networks are. Meta nofollow. MORE
If you have any questions about how to resolve this issue, please see our Webmaster Help Forum for support. As for links to be nofollowed if they bring you traffic but or paid or sponsored links, or are part of a guest post or advertorial. MORE
There’s no SEO value to these comments (they’re nofollowed by default), and all this approach does is makes you lose credibility in the eyes of the blogger. MORE
Top 7 Ways to Save Time on Twitter by OPEN Forum. ” Twitter Noise Reduction: The Twit Cleaner by Social Marketing Forum. 6 Ways To Monitor Your Brand On Twitter by OPEN Forum. MORE
The three ways I looked for a model were: Posting an Ad on Gumtree (the most popular classifieds site in this country) Creating a thread on a popular model forum in South Africa Sharing a tweet saying that I was looking for models in Cape Town Out of all of these methods, the response rate was quite different. Home What the F ? Cloud Living Say "Hi!" MORE
Anglo Rank was a small network being promoted on the Black Hat World forums. What I’m going to reveal in this blog post is a strategy that will likely weed out a certain section of the ViperChill audience. MORE
Links can do this regardless of whether or not they contain the “nofollow” attribute, contain redirects, come from a site with a high PageRank , and so on. Complete your social network and forum profiles. If you participate on any social media network, social bookmarking site, community, or forum, you will want to make sure that you have a link to your blog on that website in your profile. This guest post is by Corey Northcutt of Northcutt. MORE
Forums Message boards are really the first internet form of social media, after IRC. No matter what niche your business is in, there’s a great chance there are a number of active forums on the topic which you can participate in. Forums predate social networks and still thrive. MORE
But what about forums? Sure, you might be thinking CommentLuv only works on WordPress, so how can there be CommentLuv enabled forums? But vBulletin-powered forums have the option for a third-party add-on that allows members to place an RSS feed in their forum profile. MORE
Finally you could go out to webmasters directly on forums like Digitalpoint, Sitepoint and others and post a thread in the relevant forum sections to alert people to your ad availability. Home What the F ? Cloud Living Say "Hi!" MORE
5 ways to use your social profiles for SEO – tips on how followed and nofollowed profiles can help with link credit and more. Breakfast meetups (tentatively for Thursday and Saturday morning, and possibly for Friday) for Third Tribe members only – join now if you want to meet up with some great marketing minded people (and not to mention get access to some 20+ educational seminars and a supportive community forum). MORE
How not to be labeled a spammer in Dofollow forums while link building. And on the Dofollow blog, I will discuss the reason nofollow still matters. This post is part of a weekly series, Fetching Friday, featuring the resources mashup, Hawaiaan relaxation & meditation, and what to expect next week on kikolani.com. The Resources Mashup. Here are some of the best articles I have stumbledupon this week. Blogging. Reasons to love CommentLuv blogs. MORE
Some of the most common you’ll find for sale are: Blogs Clickbank ready affiliate sites Popular Clickbank products & sales pages Niche content sites Dropship product sites Forums Paid Membership sites Niche communities The ones I have highlighted in bold are the ones that I usually go for. MORE
10 Ethical Ways to Buy Links : While some may argue that you need to nofollow links purchased via paid reviews (which is suggested here), link buying isn’t over and is a great way for many people to get the visibility they feel they deserve and the SEO value that may come from it. MORE
Nofollow links also matter. Some links, for example, the ones from blog comments may have the rel=”nofollow” attribute. <a The nofollow attribute gives search engines instructions not to follow the link. Contributing to niche forums. MORE
properties, social bookmarking sites, forums, just to name a few. And yes, you need a mixture of both Dofollow and Nofollow links, because that’s what natural link building looks like. How do you know whether a blog is Do or Nofollow? This is a guest post by Ana Hoffman. MORE
Check out the Warrior Forum for an entire board dedicated to JV opportunities. Leaving more comments on blogs you read regularly does two major things: it gives you a link back to your site (no matter what your stance on “rel=nofollow” is), and it starts a conversation with the site owner or author of the post. This guest post is by Nick Thacker of livehacked.com. I’ve been creating stuff lately—blog posts, articles, tweets, videos, ebooks, etc.—and MORE
That is why they have recently launched two more nofollow link attributes that is UGC and sponsored. rel= “ugc”: UGC is recommended for links with user-generated comments, forum posts. Must we change current Nofollow link attributes To UGC or Sponsored? MORE
I started returning to the webmaster forums where I used to spend so much time and see what worked for other people. target="_blank" rel="nofollow"> 31 Comments Pat says: December 14, 2009 at 10:37 am Hey man – I love the line “ignore 99% of the people who make money online&#. Stay out of the forums. Home What the F ? Cloud Living Say "Hi!" MORE
Engage in discussions with them on their blogs, on forums and on social media. People with big platforms, like popular blogs, forums, newsletters or social media followings. Check if links are “nofollow.” Then search for a “nofollow” tag. This is a guest contribution from. MORE
And by default most WordPress comments sections apply the “nofollow” attribute to all links, so there’s no point in commenting just to create a backlink to your blog. #3: 5: Answer Questions on Forums. MORE
They have some forums, but even the hosting section I could only see one recent thread on actual hosting companies, which has 2 posts. Mostly nofollow and those that are dofollow are spammed to hell. MORE
Links to this post: " rel="nofollow">. UKeiG Intranets Forum - can you demonstrate your i. UKeiG Blog. UKeiG, the UK eInformation Group, is a professional body for users and developers of electronic information resources. Wednesday, May 21, 2008. Top Search Tips - May 2008, Liverpool. UKeiGs recent Liverpool Internet search workshop was filled to capacity. MORE
NoFollow Certain Pages I did say there may be some tactics that people frown upon in this post, and this is the first. The Nofollow attribute was first introduced by search engines to help stop spam on the web from ranking in search results. That’s why, by default, all links to commenters on your blog are automatically nofollowed. Similarly, I nofollow links to my about page, my category links and my RSS feed. Home What the F ? Cloud Living Say "Hi!" MORE
target="_blank" rel="nofollow"> 42 Comments Ron says: February 3, 2010 at 12:46 pm Great report Glen, had no idea StumbleUpon could send so much traffic until I checked out your other article. Will check those forums out. Home What the F ? Cloud Living Say "Hi!" MORE
SEPTEMBER 14, 2012
You may have noticed that I did not mention activity in industry forums, or LinkedIn Groups or the question and answer site Quora. Alright, so these opportunities to show off your expertise are no-nonsense, no beating around the bush forums for you flaunt that big brain you have. MORE
SEPTEMBER 14, 2010
They’re simply registering on tons of forums and profile websites, placing their link in their bio’s, and then ranking well for their keyphrase. Once again I’ve noticed another website which is simply spamming forums (and writing articles) in order to rank for their phrase. MORE
Should we include the rel=”nofollow” by default? First came the tweet from Matt: I didn’t actually catch this at the time (hat tip to GOS ) but it definitely went viral among the Blackhat forums which you can see with pretty much any Google search on the topic. MORE
But not much Reply Cody says: September 8, 2010 at 5:43 pm Hey Glen, Which internet marketing forums do you visit to learn about your IM type stuff? Home What the F ? Cloud Living Say "Hi!" MORE
I could set-up discussion forums that charge a monthly fee or even some type of games website that charges members to play. target="_blank" rel="nofollow"> 101 Comments Design Informer says: November 26, 2009 at 12:11 pm Can’t wait to read more. Home What the F ? MORE
Create Wikipedia articles, electronic press releases; leave comments on forums and blogs even those with <nofollow> attributes. The web is an great platform for publicity; unfortunately not all of it is positive! MORE
We allow links in the comments, but we nofollow them so no link juice escapes. As the search engines get smarter, and the value of comment links, forum links, and social media links drops, the value of in-content links (i.e. I’ve been thinking a lot about my linking strategy lately. Trying to get incoming backlinks, making sure I have good inner links… But one area that I think is too often overlooked is outbound links. MORE
They can be found on the Steve Pavlina forums, forums for specific aspects of personal development (motivation, productivity, health) and they also like to spend time on Facebook Groups. If there are tons of blogs in your niche, would people benefit from a forum? MORE
BeingOptimist
SEPTEMBER 20, 2019
That is why they have recently launched two more nofollow link attributes that is UGC and sponsored. rel= “ugc”: UGC is recommended for links with user-generated comments, forum posts. Must we change current Nofollow link attributes To UGC or Sponsored?
Kikolani
JUNE 21, 2012
But what about forums? Sure, you might be thinking CommentLuv only works on WordPress, so how can there be CommentLuv enabled forums? But vBulletin-powered forums have the option for a third-party add-on that allows members to place an RSS feed in their forum profile.
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Viper Chill
SEPTEMBER 14, 2010
They’re simply registering on tons of forums and profile websites, placing their link in their bio’s, and then ranking well for their keyphrase. Once again I’ve noticed another website which is simply spamming forums (and writing articles) in order to rank for their phrase.
Kikolani
SEPTEMBER 13, 2016
Just like in any industry, SEO has a lot of misleading information on blogs and forums. You might read on a forum that all backlink are good or perhaps read a case study about how fantastic blog networks are. Meta nofollow.
Social Media Marketing
JULY 4, 2018
Link Building: Avoid Forum Posts John Mueller posted this after someone asked if Reddit comments are dofollow. The guy wrote: “I recently commented on another thread regarding this, and I just did a double-take and Reddit comments indeed appear to not have the "nofollow"-relation? John Mueller’s response: “How does link spam with forum comments work? SEO is a never-ending race and marketers and bloggers know that.
Kikolani
SEPTEMBER 13, 2016
Just like in any industry, SEO has a lot of misleading information on blogs and forums. You might read on a forum that all backlink are good or perhaps read a case study about how fantastic blog networks are. Meta nofollow.
Razor Social
APRIL 4, 2018
Nofollow links also matter. Some links, for example, the ones from blog comments may have the rel=”nofollow” attribute. <a The nofollow attribute gives search engines instructions not to follow the link. Contributing to niche forums.
Harp Interactive
DECEMBER 1, 2009
Create Wikipedia articles, electronic press releases; leave comments on forums and blogs even those with <nofollow> attributes. The web is an great platform for publicity; unfortunately not all of it is positive!
SocialFish
SEPTEMBER 14, 2012
You may have noticed that I did not mention activity in industry forums, or LinkedIn Groups or the question and answer site Quora. Alright, so these opportunities to show off your expertise are no-nonsense, no beating around the bush forums for you flaunt that big brain you have.
Kikolani
JULY 28, 2010
There are a number of great networks specifically built for bloggers for the purpose of bookmarking, forums, groups, and networks. Forum Signatures. If you’re active in forums, such as Bloggeries , ProBlogger , or other blogging communities, be sure to add your blog to your forum signature. Even if it is nofollow or not visible to the public, you will get some significant traffic from other members if you are a valuable contributor.
Kikolani
OCTOBER 26, 2011
properties, social bookmarking sites, forums, just to name a few. And yes, you need a mixture of both Dofollow and Nofollow links, because that’s what natural link building looks like. How do you know whether a blog is Do or Nofollow? This is a guest post by Ana Hoffman.
Webbiquity SMM
JANUARY 9, 2012
Top 7 Ways to Save Time on Twitter by OPEN Forum. ” Twitter Noise Reduction: The Twit Cleaner by Social Marketing Forum. 6 Ways To Monitor Your Brand On Twitter by OPEN Forum.
Webbiquity SMM
NOVEMBER 2, 2010
Forums and Message Boards (the oldest and second-most commonly used forms of social media). In chapter 37, she almost seems to defend the insidious nofollow tag , which has outlived whatever useful life it once had and should be banished.
Kikolani
JANUARY 8, 2010
How not to be labeled a spammer in Dofollow forums while link building. And on the Dofollow blog, I will discuss the reason nofollow still matters. This post is part of a weekly series, Fetching Friday, featuring the resources mashup, Hawaiaan relaxation & meditation, and what to expect next week on kikolani.com. The Resources Mashup. Here are some of the best articles I have stumbledupon this week. Blogging. Reasons to love CommentLuv blogs.
Kikolani
DECEMBER 8, 2015
Avoid posting links on random or affiliated websites rather nofollow the link or remove them. Some of the other common sources of spammy links are Forum Profiles, Blog comments, Social bookmarks and paid links. Participating in various forums irrespective of the topic should be avoided. Commenting on some random blog post or forum just to create links is not an advisable practice.
ProBlogger
AUGUST 28, 2018
And by default most WordPress comments sections apply the “nofollow” attribute to all links, so there’s no point in commenting just to create a backlink to your blog. #3: 5: Answer Questions on Forums.
Buzz Marketing for Technology
JULY 24, 2008
Links to this post: " rel="nofollow">. UKeiG Intranets Forum - can you demonstrate your i. UKeiG Blog. UKeiG, the UK eInformation Group, is a professional body for users and developers of electronic information resources. Wednesday, May 21, 2008. Top Search Tips - May 2008, Liverpool. UKeiGs recent Liverpool Internet search workshop was filled to capacity.
Viper Chill
FEBRUARY 8, 2010
NoFollow Certain Pages I did say there may be some tactics that people frown upon in this post, and this is the first. The Nofollow attribute was first introduced by search engines to help stop spam on the web from ranking in search results. That’s why, by default, all links to commenters on your blog are automatically nofollowed. Similarly, I nofollow links to my about page, my category links and my RSS feed. Home What the F ? Cloud Living Say "Hi!"
ProBlogger
JANUARY 15, 2012
We allow links in the comments, but we nofollow them so no link juice escapes. As the search engines get smarter, and the value of comment links, forum links, and social media links drops, the value of in-content links (i.e. I’ve been thinking a lot about my linking strategy lately. Trying to get incoming backlinks, making sure I have good inner links… But one area that I think is too often overlooked is outbound links.
Kikolani
OCTOBER 1, 2010
5 ways to use your social profiles for SEO – tips on how followed and nofollowed profiles can help with link credit and more. Breakfast meetups (tentatively for Thursday and Saturday morning, and possibly for Friday) for Third Tribe members only – join now if you want to meet up with some great marketing minded people (and not to mention get access to some 20+ educational seminars and a supportive community forum).
Viper Chill
JULY 25, 2016
Anglo Rank was a small network being promoted on the Black Hat World forums. What I’m going to reveal in this blog post is a strategy that will likely weed out a certain section of the ViperChill audience.
Viper Chill
JULY 21, 2014
But maybe the SEO guys at StumbleUpon or Rdio or FOX news don’t realise they can do the same (or at least nofollow it for their own protection). DigitalPoint at that same time had been using their forum members to build up a co-op link exchange which Google publically penalised.
ProBlogger
AUGUST 15, 2012
Links can do this regardless of whether or not they contain the “nofollow” attribute, contain redirects, come from a site with a high PageRank , and so on. Complete your social network and forum profiles. If you participate on any social media network, social bookmarking site, community, or forum, you will want to make sure that you have a link to your blog on that website in your profile. This guest post is by Corey Northcutt of Northcutt.
ProBlogger
FEBRUARY 5, 2015
Engage in discussions with them on their blogs, on forums and on social media. People with big platforms, like popular blogs, forums, newsletters or social media followings. Check if links are “nofollow.” Then search for a “nofollow” tag. This is a guest contribution from.
Viper Chill
AUGUST 27, 2013
Should we include the rel=”nofollow” by default? First came the tweet from Matt: I didn’t actually catch this at the time (hat tip to GOS ) but it definitely went viral among the Blackhat forums which you can see with pretty much any Google search on the topic.
Viper Chill
JANUARY 27, 2014
They have some forums, but even the hosting section I could only see one recent thread on actual hosting companies, which has 2 posts. Mostly nofollow and those that are dofollow are spammed to hell.
Viper Chill
NOVEMBER 28, 2013
You can see I quickly got to work trying to analyse where I thought the problem lied (with a lot of help from Diggy too): It’s also what we’ve been preaching in the forums for weeks now, but I wanted to do a lot more testing before I ran a blog post about it. Penguin 2.1
Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg
DECEMBER 10, 2008
There’s no SEO value to these comments (they’re nofollowed by default), and all this approach does is makes you lose credibility in the eyes of the blogger.
Viper Chill
APRIL 26, 2010
Forums Message boards are really the first internet form of social media, after IRC. No matter what niche your business is in, there’s a great chance there are a number of active forums on the topic which you can participate in. Forums predate social networks and still thrive.
Viper Chill
OCTOBER 26, 2009
They can be found on the Steve Pavlina forums, forums for specific aspects of personal development (motivation, productivity, health) and they also like to spend time on Facebook Groups. If there are tons of blogs in your niche, would people benefit from a forum?
Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg
JANUARY 5, 2012
10 Ethical Ways to Buy Links : While some may argue that you need to nofollow links purchased via paid reviews (which is suggested here), link buying isn’t over and is a great way for many people to get the visibility they feel they deserve and the SEO value that may come from it.
Viper Chill
SEPTEMBER 1, 2010
But not much Reply Cody says: September 8, 2010 at 5:43 pm Hey Glen, Which internet marketing forums do you visit to learn about your IM type stuff? Home What the F ? Cloud Living Say "Hi!"
Viper Chill
FEBRUARY 3, 2010
target="_blank" rel="nofollow"> 42 Comments Ron says: February 3, 2010 at 12:46 pm Great report Glen, had no idea StumbleUpon could send so much traffic until I checked out your other article. Will check those forums out. Home What the F ? Cloud Living Say "Hi!"
Viper Chill
APRIL 19, 2010
Finally you could go out to webmasters directly on forums like Digitalpoint, Sitepoint and others and post a thread in the relevant forum sections to alert people to your ad availability. Home What the F ? Cloud Living Say "Hi!"
Viper Chill
DECEMBER 13, 2009
I started returning to the webmaster forums where I used to spend so much time and see what worked for other people. target="_blank" rel="nofollow"> 31 Comments Pat says: December 14, 2009 at 10:37 am Hey man – I love the line “ignore 99% of the people who make money online&#. Stay out of the forums. Home What the F ? Cloud Living Say "Hi!"
Viper Chill
MAY 6, 2010
target="_blank" rel="nofollow"> 66 Comments book says: May 6, 2010 at 11:11 am Glen, I think, you got the idea for this post from your personal experience. Home What the F ? Cloud Living Say "Hi!"
Viper Chill
NOVEMBER 26, 2009
I could set-up discussion forums that charge a monthly fee or even some type of games website that charges members to play. target="_blank" rel="nofollow"> 101 Comments Design Informer says: November 26, 2009 at 12:11 pm Can’t wait to read more. Home What the F ?
Viper Chill
JULY 19, 2010
target="_blank" rel="nofollow"> 126 Comments Dan says: July 19, 2010 at 8:24 am Too cool Glen, I find myself copy and pasting every article to all my web guys. They are mostly profiles, forum links and blog posts which are high PR do follow. Home What the F ? Cloud Living Say "Hi!"
ProBlogger
APRIL 28, 2012
Check out the Warrior Forum for an entire board dedicated to JV opportunities. Leaving more comments on blogs you read regularly does two major things: it gives you a link back to your site (no matter what your stance on “rel=nofollow” is), and it starts a conversation with the site owner or author of the post. This guest post is by Nick Thacker of livehacked.com. I’ve been creating stuff lately—blog posts, articles, tweets, videos, ebooks, etc.—and
Viper Chill
MARCH 15, 2010
The three ways I looked for a model were: Posting an Ad on Gumtree (the most popular classifieds site in this country) Creating a thread on a popular model forum in South Africa Sharing a tweet saying that I was looking for models in Cape Town Out of all of these methods, the response rate was quite different. Home What the F ? Cloud Living Say "Hi!"
Viper Chill
MAY 17, 2010
target="_blank" rel="nofollow"> 78 Comments Anthony Feint says: May 17, 2010 at 11:09 am This is a really powerful technique. Home What the F ? Cloud Living Say "Hi!"
Viper Chill
AUGUST 4, 2010
target="_blank" rel="nofollow"> 108 Comments Pat Flynn says: August 4, 2010 at 8:27 am Congrats on the move dude, I’m sure you’ll love it in Thailand! link] Reply Glen says: August 6, 2010 at 6:49 am Head to the services forum in the marketplace. Home What the F ?
Viper Chill
MARCH 30, 2010
Some of the most common you’ll find for sale are: Blogs Clickbank ready affiliate sites Popular Clickbank products & sales pages Niche content sites Dropship product sites Forums Paid Membership sites Niche communities The ones I have highlighted in bold are the ones that I usually go for.
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