Comments on: Stop Building Invisible Links – 3 Ways to Find Them

By: SEO-MAMA

SEO-MAMA — Tue, 12 May 2009 11:50:17 +0000

This is a great post. I recently started my link building campaign, and these tips will definitely help me. Thanks so much for writing about this!

By: Exotic Cars

Exotic Cars — Tue, 21 Apr 2009 09:27:07 +0000

Gyutae,you have focused on good points which many newbie are not aware of.No follow blogs do add value.They are useful to get organic reader.But site using Java Script does not add anything to the commentors.

By: Minneapolis Real Estate

Minneapolis Real Estate — Sat, 21 Feb 2009 18:30:48 +0000

Thanks for sharing the info.

By: Leo

Leo — Wed, 21 Jan 2009 16:33:15 +0000

I would have to agree with Wesley here. I think too many bloggers look at comments as a way to build a solid SEO profile. Why not instead, contribute something worthwhile and then leech the traffic from another site?

Then, IF your site is worthy, you may get links from other websites contextually (within a post)…that would carry much more weight than a hundred lame comments from do follow blogs, wouldn’t you agree?

By: Block Paving Bolton

Block Paving Bolton — Mon, 19 Jan 2009 18:06:11 +0000

An excellent post and having a mixture of do follow and no follow links does not do any harm to your site

thanks for sharing

By: Aggressive Dog Behavior

Aggressive Dog Behavior — Mon, 19 Jan 2009 05:44:20 +0000

This is a great post. I recently started my link building campaign, and these tips will definitely help me. Thanks so much for writing about this!

By: Brian D. Hawkins

Brian D. Hawkins — Sun, 11 Jan 2009 22:46:23 +0000

Thanks Gyutae, I knew there was a reason. I had the same thing before I converted to blog format. I used a splash page on the index page which had a PR3 and for the front page I used indexx.html which had a PR5. Then I did a bad thing I redirected the indexx page to index.php (now a blog) thinking the page rank would follow. Been pr3 ever since. No big deal though, I like the blog a lot better and it’s just a lesson learned.

By: Gyutae Park

Gyutae Park — Sun, 11 Jan 2009 20:09:20 +0000

Hey Brian,
No offense taken.
Using Javascript or nofollow tags can help a publishing site to preserve PageRank and distribute it to internal links. This shouldn’t mean that you horde links to yourself though.

As for this site, it dropped down to a PR 3 because my IM Top Blogs list has been getting the majority of links lately (it’s at PR 5 now compared to 3 for the homepage). I wouldn’t worry too much about toolbar PageRank though. The site still ranks the same regardless.

By: Make Money Online

Make Money Online — Sun, 11 Jan 2009 15:28:44 +0000

No Brian, I doubt you will lose PR or SE traffic because these come from your own link building effort!

By: Brian D. Hawkins

Brian D. Hawkins — Sun, 11 Jan 2009 12:11:33 +0000

I comment if a blog is follow or no-follow, obviously since yours is no-follow but those are some great tips. I knew JS was a roadblock for Google but I didn’t realize sites used it to display comments.

Is there any solid information from Google that using Java Script or no-follow tags even helps the publishing site’s page rank? I’m not picking on you and I hope you don’t mind if I use your our blogs as an example. Your site has 3.5x more pages indexed, 6.4 more back links and a lot more traffic according to Alexa than mine. I don’t use no-follow tags and you do. Yet we both have a Google PR of 03/10. I’ll be the first to admit your blog is better in every way I can measure. I’m just referring to page rank and SEO.

Would you loose PR or search engine traffic by allowing the search engines to follow those that comment? I’m sure I’m missing something.

Again, just trying to learn, I’m not attacking. When I re-read before I submit it could sound either way. No way to express tone or intent