Comments on: Six Reasons I Won’t Cloaks Nofollows so Only Google Sees Them.

By: Adam

Adam — Tue, 18 Dec 2007 10:26:45 +0000

Wow! This is a nice and informative blog. Genuine link building is always tough but I guess cloaking no follows would do more harm to the sellers than good. When you put in some authority content, links do follow.

By: Lucia

Lucia — Thu, 01 Nov 2007 14:02:53 +0000

@Karl: Yes, building backlinks is challenging. I’ve gotten a lot by writing plugins and then asking people to mention the plugins. That has the double effect of getting more people to use the plugin and getting me links.

It also helps to get in conversations with bloggers in your niche.

By: Karl Erfurt

Karl Erfurt — Thu, 01 Nov 2007 04:47:20 +0000

@Lucia:

Thank you for the tips. This is timely advice for me because lately I’ve been thinking about buying some text link ads. I really need the link juice because even though I managed to score a PR3 in the latest update, I still have approximately 80% of my pages in Google’s supplemental index. I’m currently getting an average of about 25 visits per day from search traffic, but with over 200 total pages, I know that I could really increase this figure if I could just get most of my pages out of the supplemental “dungeon”.

On the other hand, I have been reading a lot about Google cracking down on link selling sites and possibly devaluing their PageRank, so perhaps it would be better if I focused on getting more links for the traffic. It’s just so frustratingly slow…

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Final Thoughts On The PageRank Debacle | More Than Scratch The Surface — Wed, 31 Oct 2007 15:35:33 +0000

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By: Lucia

Lucia — Wed, 31 Oct 2007 13:01:37 +0000

@Karl: Yes, it is. I think it’s important to be aware of the issue and know how it may be used. Advertisers, in particular, need to be aware of it. That way, they can learn to do some testing to ensure they get what they pay for.

The other idea for Advertisers is they may just want to realize that if they pay “extra” for link juice, they may not get it. Focus on traffic or branding when buying ads.

By: 5ubliminal

5ubliminal — Wed, 31 Oct 2007 08:33:37 +0000

Something offtopic:

If you noticed I have a new account on sphinn as I got last one banned after mass messaging over 100 members a short while ago…
PS:It was fun!

By: Karl Erfurt

Karl Erfurt — Wed, 31 Oct 2007 02:17:37 +0000

Wow, I didn’t even know that it was possible to cloak nofollow links! It seems that if I visit enough blogs, I can learn something new every day.

I also agree with your original assessment of the issue. The idea of cloaking nofollow links is getting a little too close to the “black hat” side of things for me, and with the ever-changing policies and algorithms of the search engines, it’s probably not worth the risk in the long run.

By: Josh Spaulding

Josh Spaulding — Tue, 30 Oct 2007 21:37:24 +0000

Sebastian, I don’t know you and I’m not here to start a fight, but if you don’t support nofollow cloaking, why would you show others how to do it??

Things like this are unethical and just plain wrong. When i see people giving advice on things like this I normally leave a comment with my thoughts, then leave and never come back. In certain cases, depending on what the topic is, I’ll warn my list, blog readers etc. to stay away from the person!

Giving any kind of advice on anything that is unethical is a great way lose the respect of your readers and ruin your business.

By: 5ubliminal

5ubliminal — Tue, 30 Oct 2007 21:32:40 +0000

Now I go for women in general. Who knows who I’ll be onto next (I have a list already…)

By: Lucia

Lucia — Tue, 30 Oct 2007 21:29:05 +0000

Oh no! First you insult Scots.. and now…?