Comments on: Are You Letting People Pay To Take Your Position In Search?

By: Vera Purse

Vera Purse — Tue, 02 Feb 2010 13:13:27 +0000

Great article. I do believe that google tries their best to make sure the playing field is level and had done a good job so far.

By: Vera Bradley

Vera Bradley — Thu, 04 Jun 2009 18:05:33 +0000

Well that’s a nice perspective in telling us that Google is trying to protect us rather than screw us over. A rather optimistic look at SEO. Great post as always Gary.

By: SEO Optimizer

SEO Optimizer — Sat, 25 Apr 2009 19:54:26 +0000

It was great to go through the stuff posted on your blog. Look forward to more useful posts in future.

By: SubmitterWeb

SubmitterWeb — Mon, 30 Mar 2009 17:24:50 +0000

Very well written. This is the kind of information that is useful to those want to increase their SERP’s. Keep up the good work.

By: blogg

blogg — Thu, 12 Feb 2009 00:53:55 +0000

I found your blog on google and read a few of your other posts. I just added you to my Google News Reader. Keep up the good work. Look forward to reading more from you in the future.

By: Garry Conn

Garry Conn — Fri, 02 Nov 2007 08:24:05 +0000

Also… PR3 is fine… and is really all that is needed for your posts to rank well in the SERPS. Take a look at the videos I have been doing and also I would love to have you watch David and I on RadioBlogTalk. We will have a new show (or attempt to… lol) every Monday morning. Visit, RadioBlogTalk.com and subscribe to our YouTube Channel!

By: Garry Conn

Garry Conn — Fri, 02 Nov 2007 08:21:05 +0000

Just make sure you go about it in a constructive way. A lot of the DOFOLLOW crowd are against Google and the REL=NOFOLLOW. I totally respect Google’s policies and have taken it upon myself to be the judge of which links on my blog are machine readable/crawlable and which ones are not. When the REL=NOFOLLOW tags are removed from a blog but placed in the control of good hands, it can really provide a very resourceful feed for search engine bots. Unfortunately, it is those that choose to “game” PageRank that cause this movement to get a bad name.

By: Zath

Zath — Fri, 02 Nov 2007 07:29:53 +0000

Thanks for clearing that up Garry, only reason I started thinking on that was that my Pagerank was unchanged in the last update and it just made me consider my links, I must just not have enough to move up.

I’ll stick with my ‘U Comment, I Follow’ support, cheers!

By: Garry Conn

Garry Conn — Fri, 02 Nov 2007 01:46:07 +0000

Zath,

With Wordpress by default, the rel=nofollow is applied to all the links in the comments including the link for your name. This was initially done to protect you back when it was hard to control spam. However, with all the spam protection programs available for WordPress I don’t believe rel=nofollow is needed for my blog. I closely control the content and links that get accepted into my posts via the comments.

The whole dofollow movement is ok, except for the rebellious attitude they give out against Google. Once again, rel=nofollow was put in place to protect the search engine as well as the individual web author… not the other way around.

I sport a UCOMMENT and IFOLLOW stating that links in my comments are machine readable as long as they are relevant and that I myself follow and visit your blog. If you look closely as my source code you will see that there are many sections in my blog that are NOFOLLOW. I pay close attention to my incoming as well as outgoing links.

By: Zath

Zath — Fri, 02 Nov 2007 00:36:02 +0000

You put across a really interesting point of view Garry. I applied for Text Ads about 4 to 5months ago and was still waiting on being approved for a bit of extra income, however I’m given up on that idea before the recent events, but after those, I’ll be staying well clear even if I do get approved now.

One thing that has popped into my mind on the back of this, where do you think Google will stand on the “U Comment, I Follow” on our blogs, do you think they’ll say that those are ‘invalid’ links next?