Comments on: Is Google Ignoring Your Backlinks? Webmaster Tools Can (Maybe) Help (Sometimes) https://townsend.bunksite.com/google-ignoring-backlinks-webmaster-tools-might-help-well-sometimes/ Thu, 20 Oct 2011 17:53:19 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0 By: Israel Kendall https://townsend.bunksite.com/google-ignoring-backlinks-webmaster-tools-might-help-well-sometimes/#comment-1086 Thu, 20 Oct 2011 17:53:19 +0000 http://www.searchinfluence.com/?p=5849#comment-1086 In reply to Scott Shockley.

Scott, thanks for the reply! I just found the strangest backlink and I’ve been searching all over to find out if it will count for anything. I’m not sure if Google can even see the page I was linked from because I can’t see it. It’s from planetblue.ith.intel.com which it turns out is Intel employee blogs from their internal social network. It would be awesome to have a backlink from the Intel domain, but I’ve got a gut feeling this one will not count.

]]> By: Scott Shockley https://townsend.bunksite.com/google-ignoring-backlinks-webmaster-tools-might-help-well-sometimes/#comment-1085 Thu, 20 Oct 2011 17:11:10 +0000 http://www.searchinfluence.com/?p=5849#comment-1085 Israel, I think it’s really no indication of whether or not they’re using the juice. There is a lot of debate about this. I personally think that the nofollow attribute on blog comments does what it was intended to do, and prevents the flow of pagerank. If you have a bunch of diggs (which are nofollow), however, even though it doesn’t necessarily flow PR, Google still sees those as votes for your site, and it’s favorable. The funny thing about nofollow though is that, contrary to the name, it seems like Google crawlers follow nearly everything, because they want the biggest index. I have definitely used nofollow links in the past as the sole means of getting a page indexed, but not for getting a page ranked.

]]> By: Israel Kendall https://townsend.bunksite.com/google-ignoring-backlinks-webmaster-tools-might-help-well-sometimes/#comment-1084 Sat, 15 Oct 2011 20:14:17 +0000 http://www.searchinfluence.com/?p=5849#comment-1084 “SEO Dominatrix”, that’s hilarious! I notice links showing up in webmaster tools from major sites that are known for being “nofollow”. Does the link showing up in webmaster tools mean that Google has ignored the nofollow attribute and given my site search juice for the link?

]]> By: Scott Shockley https://townsend.bunksite.com/google-ignoring-backlinks-webmaster-tools-might-help-well-sometimes/#comment-1083 Wed, 27 Apr 2011 14:24:55 +0000 http://www.searchinfluence.com/?p=5849#comment-1083 I hear what you’re saying Chris. You have probably heard about the JC Penny SEO scandal in which they became the #1 result for very general searches like black dress by getting anchor text links from thousands of unrelated and spammy directories. What I’ve been screaming since day 1 post-panda is how ridiculous it is when scrapers outrank the site from which the content originated (here is a good post about it: http://www.seomoz.org/blog/postpanda-your-original-content-is-being-outranked-by-scrapers-amp-partners ). Hopefully the Googlers will soon see the error of their ways. Admission of guilt is the first, and most difficult step.

]]> By: Chris https://townsend.bunksite.com/google-ignoring-backlinks-webmaster-tools-might-help-well-sometimes/#comment-1082 Wed, 27 Apr 2011 01:26:20 +0000 http://www.searchinfluence.com/?p=5849#comment-1082 I really dont think google does much about good or bad back links, I’ve had a well research website up sice the late 90’s, doctors, professors, researchers have all commented on how informative it is and then I have a competitor who site is basically scraped/spun content and back links to basically user account details in forums and it is right up there with mine and has been so for about a year.

]]> By: SearchCap: The Day In Search, April 26, 2011 https://townsend.bunksite.com/google-ignoring-backlinks-webmaster-tools-might-help-well-sometimes/#comment-1081 Tue, 26 Apr 2011 21:04:17 +0000 http://www.searchinfluence.com/?p=5849#comment-1081 […] Is Google Ignoring Your Backlinks? Webmaster Tools Can (Maybe) Help (Sometimes), http://www.searchinfluence.com […]

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