Comments on: What Does Google Really Think About SEO? (Part Two)

By: Alex

Alex — Wed, 20 Jan 2010 14:47:38 +0000

So true about not making them think to navigate! I've left sites because I've taken a look at them and gone "huh?". If it's easier for people to hit the back button and try another search result than it is to find their way through your maze, you've lost them! If in doubt, have your kids take a look at the web site and watch over their shoulder to see if they can find their way around……

By: Tyler Banfield

Tyler Banfield — Thu, 18 Dec 2008 20:46:40 +0000

@Gerald: Great question. If you look at http://www.google.com/support/webmasters/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=96569 , you will see that only does Google encourage people to use nofollow to mark untrusted links (such as comments), but also as a way to disclose paid links (which is a policy that has obviously caused a lot of disagreement).

My main point in this article is that because Google is telling normal website owners that they can use this attribute on their website, using nofollow in advanced ways (such as to sculpt PageRank) will not raise any red flags with Google that a website has been “SEO’d.”

By: Gerald Weber

Gerald Weber — Thu, 18 Dec 2008 20:17:46 +0000

Just to be clear on what your talking about regarding the “no-follow” are you saying that Google is advocating the use of “no-follow”? Can you please elaborate on this a bit?

Thanks.

By: Blog Expert

Blog Expert — Wed, 17 Dec 2008 17:00:00 +0000

“how to properly use the h1 through h6 tags”

That is something that I have struggled with. I’ll need to read more to learn the ins and outs of it.