Posts Tagged ‘wikipedia’
What is the ‘nofollow’ attribute?
May 1st, 2009 | Author: Jeremy
There are many web directories around that offer free links. This often seems like a great idea. However, you may be unaware that many of these use this attribute when providing free links.
So what is it and why should you be bothered?
According to Wikipedia
“nofollow is an HTML attribute value used to instruct some search engines that a hyperlink should not influence the link target’s ranking in the search engine’s index. It is intended to reduce the effectiveness of certain types of search engine spam, thereby improving the quality of search engine results and preventing spamdexing from occurring.”
A link using the attribute rel=”nofollow” is not completely useless, visitors can still visit your web site through a link using this attribute, however you will be losing out when it comes to link popularity and search engine rankings.
What can you do about it?
First check out if the directory you are thinking of submitting to is using this attribute for its free links. If it is, pay for your listing if your link submission is mainly about building up Link Popularity.
If it is more about just being found on the internet then your free link may be useful even if it has nofollow.
At the end of the day a free link is a free link. If you have the time to submit it then go ahead. I have been amazed at the traffic that has come from weird, seemingly unknown directories.
New RSS Feeds Directory Launched
May 5th, 2008 | Author: Jeremy
As part of the A Sound Design network of sites I have just launched a new directory. This is a more specialised directory as it is for RSS/XML Feeds only. In brief RSS stands for ‘Really Simple Syndication‘ or ‘Rich Site Summary‘ and is an XML-based format for distributing content, such as news headlines and latest blog articles. If you you’d like to know more check out this article on Wikipedia.
For a limited time you can submit your RSS feed completely FREE. But get in quick as I will eventually be charging for submissions.
Submit your feed at www.rss-feeds-directory.info. Please tell others about the site too.
