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lol, this is a real hoot . one of those little ironies in life.
If google doesn't, maybe I shouldn't obsess over title tags, meta tags, inbound links and alt tags!!
I agree with you about the inbound links, since that IS one of Google's top factors. But if they are not promoting the other meta factors, I interpret that as a loud and clear hint from Google on what's not important to their robot/algorithm. So, if they aren't using it, are they telling the SEOs of the world that it's not worth the time and effort?
@IdahoSEO... perhaps, definitely a possibility... what is also interesting about Knol is that from a UI perspective is doesn't come close to the standards they set with the UI on other projects. I'm actually surprised that they launched it yesterday, as I don't think it really looks *ready*... they must have gotten Larry & Sergey really drunk one night to sign-off on this one.
btw, all these are incorrect.. you should really figure out how search engines, particularly google actually crawls pages...
inbound links ARE important...
alt text, is not... if you have enough context on your page, and low verb count, alt text will be completely ignored.. .that's right.. IGNORED... forget the fact that if it was still crawled it'd just be a duplicate of what you already have on the page... alt text is for the blind and general dead links to images.
metadata tags... these are the ways of 1990... no one uses these anymore, unless you still use frontpage/dreamweaver.. and even still you usually don't use these.
you make a shitty SEO, and hope you go out of business soon.. you make real developers and "SEO consultants" look like idiots...
btw, a person dedicated to SEO is also a moron... SEO is 1/10000000th of building a site, and is so menial and simple that anyone can do it... don't think you're providing any special services that no one else can.. you can barely read.
#1, Inbound Links - sweet, glad we agree on something!
#2, Alt text - It's a basic semantic piece of any web page that has an image on it. For your viewing pleasure, here's a link to Google's very own Mr. Matt Cutts explaining the importance of Alt text: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3NbuDpB_BTc
#3, Meta Description, Google usually includes the contents of your Meta Description when displaying organic search results (right below your page title). Not sure how to argue this one with you... you're just wrong.
Meta Description is super important - not for gaining rank but for increasing your click through rate. Why would you evenr want software (Google) to decide how to describe your web page when as a marketer you can write your own description? Crazy! Of course I want to do that. Meta Description is important!
Very entertaining post! To answer your recommendation about nofollowing links, check out the page source for the Knol pages - They include a meta nofollow for the entire page, so every link is nofollowed. I wonder how many SEOs out there are scrambling to get pages together thinking the links
are followed...
In my opinion - worry less about Knol's nofollow attribute and more with the potential to gain relevant traffic from the link(s) associated to it (or lack there of).
Sure the nofollow may be there to discourage would-be-seo-spammers, but if the traffic is there, then there is value beyond direct/indirect SEO benefit.
I like your SEO strategies...basically tried them on my site and guess what? my site got indexed in less than a week....just a little bit more and I'll be having quality organic search traffic to my site...I base my SEO strategies by offering good quality content to my visitors and not simply basing my content on some keyword that has probably millions of sites using it.....I rank well with definitive search terms....when you do your organic searches, what words or statements do you always type exactly into the search box?? see something? The google index spiders algorithm is smart and reads content on sites...use the same strategies you use when doing an organic search and not simply placing keywords between content on your site....the search engines love that.... Say you want to use a keyword such as SEO...you probably would do a search with terms like SEO tips, free seo tips....or any long definitive sentence search....see the search results and the number of similar websites with similar terms...when you see millions of sites using the same search term from the search results...basically, don't be fooled...you cannot get anywhere near top ten..?
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Sorry but this is a poor piece of link bait. Not only is the content inaccurate but its merely being posted to promote internal services. Lame.
Looks like we should update this post re: the meta nofollow attribute.
While not really your point, it seems like a valid and interesting point.
I personally wouldn't have thought to look there. Good catch by rachael823.
yeah, nice catch rachel823... what is going to be more interesting is to see if GoogleBot actually respects the nofollow for all of those links in the page. Something tells me this may be temporary until they figure out a better way to allow authority to flow within their own site. That's what's really cool and powerful about Wikipedia is that they pass authority internally really really well.
Thanks guys! Obviously I'm not saying that these links don't provide ANY value. I'm sure we've all noticed that links from Wikipedia, though nofollowed, still do have value while not passing link juice. Curious to see how people start using (abusing?) these pages... and how long until the whole thing shuts down.
The idea I think about the nofollow attribute is the power of your ranking you are giving away. If you 50 links on your page, then each link is worth 1/50th, but if you use nofollows on 35 of them, then the links you want to get more rank will.
At least, that is what I understand of the process.
For internal links, you want to use good anchor text. I like to use a css menu on an include file this way my menu will be crawled on each page and have the anchor text that I want.
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