Comments on: Do You Know Who You’re Linking to? http://buildingfromnothing.com/do-you-know-who-youre-linking-to/ Online Entrepreneurship Sun, 18 Dec 2011 21:08:19 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Anna http://buildingfromnothing.com/do-you-know-who-youre-linking-to/comment-page-1/#comment-9701 Anna Sat, 28 May 2011 06:28:40 +0000 http://buildingfromnothing.com/do-you-know-who-youre-linking-to/#comment-9701 Hi Vicky - Thanks for the comment. I can't say I'd give a specific rule on this but in general I do try to avoid linking (with dofollow) to sites of low quality or if I can't tell their quality. Hi Vicky – Thanks for the comment. I can’t say I’d give a specific rule on this but in general I do try to avoid linking (with dofollow) to sites of low quality or if I can’t tell their quality.

]]> By: Vicky http://buildingfromnothing.com/do-you-know-who-youre-linking-to/comment-page-1/#comment-9700 Vicky Fri, 27 May 2011 12:55:42 +0000 http://buildingfromnothing.com/do-you-know-who-youre-linking-to/#comment-9700 Hi Anna, thanks for some very useful info, i am new on the net building my first few sites everything seems to be like hazy cloud. I am i have stumbled upon you site i have just learnt important thigs about linking to sites. To be quite frnk i had no knowledge about "nofollow" links. Are you saying check the sites before you link to them? so google doesn't slap you. Hi Anna, thanks for some very useful info, i am new on the net building my first few sites everything seems to be like hazy cloud. I am i have stumbled upon you site i have just learnt important thigs about linking to sites. To be quite frnk i had no knowledge about “nofollow” links. Are you saying check the sites before you link to them? so google doesn’t slap you.

]]> By: Brian Adams http://buildingfromnothing.com/do-you-know-who-youre-linking-to/comment-page-1/#comment-9695 Brian Adams Thu, 26 May 2011 04:40:48 +0000 http://buildingfromnothing.com/do-you-know-who-youre-linking-to/#comment-9695 I find all of your advise as sound, because I have experienced Google's power of the slap. Another way to get on Googles bad side is from auto blogging and auto content posting to your site. If you don't review the post regularly, something may post that Google doesn't like such as a post on sex sites, sex toys or gambling sites. [spam link removed by moderator] I find all of your advise as sound, because I have experienced Google’s power of the slap. Another way to get on Googles bad side is from auto blogging and auto content posting to your site. If you don’t review the post regularly, something may post that Google doesn’t like such as a post on sex sites, sex toys or gambling sites.

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]]> By: poolheatpumps http://buildingfromnothing.com/do-you-know-who-youre-linking-to/comment-page-1/#comment-7997 poolheatpumps Tue, 23 Nov 2010 06:53:36 +0000 http://buildingfromnothing.com/do-you-know-who-youre-linking-to/#comment-7997 I have a sad story of my sites banned because I bought a 1000 backlinks. Just sharing, using a short path is dangerous. I have a sad story of my sites banned because I bought a 1000 backlinks. Just sharing, using a short path is dangerous.

]]> By: Headstones http://buildingfromnothing.com/do-you-know-who-youre-linking-to/comment-page-1/#comment-7467 Headstones Tue, 25 May 2010 05:06:33 +0000 http://buildingfromnothing.com/do-you-know-who-youre-linking-to/#comment-7467 It is clear that you need to know where your linking is going to. Links can get out of control quickly. It is clear that you need to know where your linking is going to. Links can get out of control quickly.

]]> By: Google Riches http://buildingfromnothing.com/do-you-know-who-youre-linking-to/comment-page-1/#comment-6644 Google Riches Fri, 20 Nov 2009 21:31:20 +0000 http://buildingfromnothing.com/do-you-know-who-youre-linking-to/#comment-6644 You defiantely have to monitor comments. Bottom line is you should always double check them. You defiantely have to monitor comments. Bottom line is you should always double check them.

]]> By: Trade Online http://buildingfromnothing.com/do-you-know-who-youre-linking-to/comment-page-1/#comment-6029 Trade Online Tue, 08 Sep 2009 14:48:22 +0000 http://buildingfromnothing.com/do-you-know-who-youre-linking-to/#comment-6029 I don't know if google punishes contest holders that says you should link to me to enter the contest. I think the way to go about a contest is to give the contestants a post to post on their site. The post would contain a link to your home page. .-= Trade Online´s last blog ..<a href="http://www.forexjinx.com/trading-forex-during-summer-holiday-period/" rel="nofollow">Trading Forex During Summer Holiday Period</a> =-. I don’t know if google punishes contest holders that says you should link to me to enter the contest. I think the way to go about a contest is to give the contestants a post to post on their site. The post would contain a link to your home page.
.-= Trade Online´s last blog ..Trading Forex During Summer Holiday Period =-.

]]> By: Anna http://buildingfromnothing.com/do-you-know-who-youre-linking-to/comment-page-1/#comment-6019 Anna Sun, 06 Sep 2009 21:02:25 +0000 http://buildingfromnothing.com/do-you-know-who-youre-linking-to/#comment-6019 Thanks for the clarification Dave! The irony is ... as far as I know, search engines look for relevant outgoing links as well. This is a great idea of how someone can shoot themself in the foot by getting too caught up in technicalities instead of visitors. A website which links to useful and relevant information is more valuable than one which only links to itself and tries to hoard all of its page rank - which doesn't really work that way anyhow. Search engines know this too, they are consistently evolved to find the best quality websites, and the best quality websites are those which are created for visitors. Thanks for the clarification Dave! The irony is … as far as I know, search engines look for relevant outgoing links as well. This is a great idea of how someone can shoot themself in the foot by getting too caught up in technicalities instead of visitors. A website which links to useful and relevant information is more valuable than one which only links to itself and tries to hoard all of its page rank – which doesn’t really work that way anyhow. Search engines know this too, they are consistently evolved to find the best quality websites, and the best quality websites are those which are created for visitors.

]]> By: Dave Doolin http://buildingfromnothing.com/do-you-know-who-youre-linking-to/comment-page-1/#comment-6016 Dave Doolin Sun, 06 Sep 2009 01:48:20 +0000 http://buildingfromnothing.com/do-you-know-who-youre-linking-to/#comment-6016 @ anna I believe what ansv means is that accumulating "real" backlinks, that is, links that actually reference material from another web site within context, is extremely unusual. I further believe this is a result of too much pre-occupation with "bleeding google link juice." Another reason may be that most people on the web right now don't understand what the web was designed to do, and haven't ever really used the web as it was meant to be used... without search engines! It turns out that in the early days of the web, linking to other articles was extremely common. These links, in fact, are why the web was put together at CERN in the first place. I'm not sure if it hurts my "google page rank," but I link contextually at will. If I can provide a link useful to a reader, I'll do it, and the hell with whatever people say google thinks about it. This strategy will work better and better as time goes by. @ ansv - if you mean something else, please add more comments, I'm very interested in what you have to say. .-= Dave Doolin´s last blog ..<a href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/WebsiteInAWeekend/~3/nTvt3fYOJLY/" rel="nofollow">Practical WordPress Tip #6: Limit word count per post to create article series</a> =-. @ anna I believe what ansv means is that accumulating “real” backlinks, that is, links that actually reference material from another web site within context, is extremely unusual. I further believe this is a result of too much pre-occupation with “bleeding google link juice.” Another reason may be that most people on the web right now don’t understand what the web was designed to do, and haven’t ever really used the web as it was meant to be used… without search engines!

It turns out that in the early days of the web, linking to other articles was extremely common. These links, in fact, are why the web was put together at CERN in the first place.

I’m not sure if it hurts my “google page rank,” but I link contextually at will. If I can provide a link useful to a reader, I’ll do it, and the hell with whatever people say google thinks about it. This strategy will work better and better as time goes by.

@ ansv – if you mean something else, please add more comments, I’m very interested in what you have to say.
.-= Dave Doolin´s last blog ..Practical WordPress Tip #6: Limit word count per post to create article series =-.

]]> By: Anna http://buildingfromnothing.com/do-you-know-who-youre-linking-to/comment-page-1/#comment-6005 Anna Thu, 03 Sep 2009 22:06:31 +0000 http://buildingfromnothing.com/do-you-know-who-youre-linking-to/#comment-6005 @ansv - Hi, thanks for the comment. I'm not 100% sure what you mean, in your first sentence you seem to think it is very easy but in your second sentence you state it is hard :) @ansv – Hi, thanks for the comment. I’m not 100% sure what you mean, in your first sentence you seem to think it is very easy but in your second sentence you state it is hard :)

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