Razvan Antonescu

Loren Baker has a nice (even though common sense) link/digg bait list about how bad nofollow tag sucks. And they conclude that sucks. And it sucks very bad. And it sucks even in blog comments (imagine the horror):

1. NoFollow = NoWorky. Using NoFollow in blog comments, the original intent of the tag, does nothing to discourage comment spammers. Using other anti-spamming tools such as question, math and plugins such as Akismet and SpamKarma for WordPress is much more effective.

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8. Commenting on a blog post is the same as adding more relevant to that blog post. A thought provoking one sentence post can lead to pages of comments. If someone takes the time to help build your site’s content via posting comments, it is professional courtesy to give them some link love.

But this is just another don’t practice what you preach article as they still have nofollow tags for thei blog comments.

Not anymore. Nice job and a good example (hopefully) for the others

P.S. I am still using it cause I am too lazy to remove them. But I will. I promise. I’ll stop procrastinating right now and install DoFollow

From Techcrunch:

 Yahoo’s brand-centric sites, announced in November 2006 and dubbed “Brand Universe”, have started to go live. These sites each revolve around a single popular brand – like this one on the Nintendo Wii – and have almost no original content. Instead, Yahoo is taking content from Flickr, Del.icio.us, Yahoo Answers and other Yahoo properties, along with some slick graphics, and hoping for page views.

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Yahoo doesn’t seem too concerned with monetization of these pages yet, and they aren’t working directly with the brands themselves.

Ok, someone please explain me what’s the freakin difference between what Yahoo does and search engine spamming. Those are black hat websites by the book with a Yahoo logo on them:

• no original content
• aggregated content based on RSS feeds around a central keyword
• subdomain hosted on a core authority domain
• lots of ads (soon)

When WordPress did that a few years ago they were called spammers and blacklisted for a while from Search Engines. When regular black haters do it are called splogs and flushed from SERPs. When Yahoo does it is brilliant.

Search Engine Journal confirms something I saw accidentally this weekend. All the external links from Wikipedia have now the nofollow attribute.

Well the ideea is that this is a pointless action in the fight against spam and it will only hurt the legit websites. Why is that so:

• After the nofollow agreement between Google/Yahoo/MSN, all the blogging platforms implemented it for the comments section. Result? Total failure. Blog spamming is a bigger issue than before
• On blogs, only legit websites were hurt because most of the spam comments are either caught in spam filters or manually removed
• Wikipedia, like DMOZ, is scraped by many other sites (some legit like Answers.com and some splogs). Don’t know if the nofollow atribute will be also included in those

All the SEOs know the regular speech, Google gives when it comes to duplicated content:

• Is bad
• It sucks
• We can detect it
• We are against it
• If you do it we are going to kick your ass out of our index and the asses of your childrens and grandchildrens
• If you do it an angel looses its wings
• yada yada yada

Ok. Some care about it some just yawn when they hear it. Today I am officially among those who yawn. I was looking for a freaking press picture of Joseph Barbera and all I got was the same endless press release. Look for “were the futuristic mirror image” to see how many duplicates Google is keeping (and yes I know in time they’ll be buried and only a few will appear…yada yada yada)

Is it just me seeing a lot of “Supplemental Result”s in SERPs? Especially on the site:www.domain.com comand

EDIT:
Is weird. I did a reality check to calm down my paranoia and seems to be true…
On site:www.techcrunch.com amd site:www.cnn.com are a lot of supplemental results. More than that site:www.amazon.com serves only 3 pages. What a hell? Somebody at google spilled a glass of water on a server and they use backups now?

EDIT 2:
Looks like the cache date of supplemental results is from July 2006