NoFollow Nonsense
May 17th, 2006 by Sarah KingNoFollow was hailed as the saviour of our sites, the answer to comment spam, forum spam and poorly maintained sites.
The idea was that by adding the "rel" attribute to a link the search engines would know that the link isn't endorsed by the site.
HTML:
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<a href='http://www.mysite.com/' rel='nofollow'>MySite</a>
The syntax isn't difficult and easy enough for a spammer to find, and walk away from.
Sadly, the spammers haven't caught on, and continue to employ unfortunates to do their dirty work, hoping that one day someone will see the light and spend some money on their ridiculous sites.
A spam filled site is a neglected site, one where the owner has had good intentions but not the time or inclination to follow through. The spam becomes a red flag to Joe Average that the site isn't maintained and to look further for the information sought. That the site will eventually be downgraded in the search engines is appropriate - it is after all, stale and abandoned. Read the rest of this entry »
The V-E battle heats up
April 28th, 2006 by Sarah KingIt's less than a month to V-E decision day and the front runners are starting to pull out all the stops to make their site #1. If the comps are meant to simulate the real life efforts of SEO consultants then we all need a wake up call. They no longer do. The level of sophistication has increased and the tricks and traps to get that one day peak won't lead to anything we'll use for our real clients.
To check out the current standing go to Google.
As always the Celiac v7ndotcom elursrebmem webcam gets my vote and you can read more about the V-E competition on this page and at my V-E lens.
Go Squidoo Yourself
April 20th, 2006 by Sarah King
Oh, I couldn't resist the graphic from BizUnlim 
I discovered the concept of Lens a while ago and have recently revisited them at Squidoo. You can see my meagre efforts of exposing
A lens is basically a single page fact sheet. You could have one for every day of your life I guess, or for every topic which interests you. It's not designed to be a blog, but as a collection I guess there is some cross over.
Squidoo have included the basics of writing articles, lists, including RSS feeds and images. They've even found a way to monetise it with revenue sharing. Read the rest of this entry »
Crude and Ineffective!
March 8th, 2006 by Sarah KingSpam is one of those topics that gets returned to time and again. Well, I was just updating this blog and found:
Link Vault: No SEO Contest adverts allowed.
March 2nd, 2006 by Sarah KingIt's good to see Link Vault step up and work to keep the network clean. Granted I was an offender but I totally support their stand and am glad to see them tighten things up. They've sent me a nice, brief email and left it up to me to clean up my account too - rather than just taking over and throwing the item out. It's official too, and listed as item #15 in their guidelines.
SEO contests are so “Middle Class”
January 17th, 2006 by Sarah KingA new SEO contest started yesterday, day before, all depends on your time zone. I created a v7ndotcom elursrebmem page out of idle curiosity and a v7ndotcom elursrebmem contestants directory for people to get extra, themed, links to their sites.
There's been stacks of activity with domains being bought and onsold, ebay auctions, charity contestants (go Alek) and, of course, spam.
I just checked my Google Analytics page for the directory just to see who the competitors are. Now it is an international affair, but look at the countries. Pretty much only western, first world countries.
So, is SEO and the little games associated with it, just for the bored middle classes?
DMOZ Scavenger Hunt
December 7th, 2005 by Sarah KingThere are plenty who are quick to insult DMOZ and the people who work to make it work. I won't go into that here, it will acheive nothing.
However, over at DigitalPoint a member (wrmineo) started a DMOZ Scavenger Hunt to find categories that had not been edited in years. Read the rest of this entry »
AJAX – finally!
October 11th, 2005 by Sarah KingI've been wanting to have a play with AJAX for ages and had book marked Rasmus' 30 second AJAX Tutorial so tonight I took 30 seconds, which turned into 30 minutes and had a play.
I've extended his example slightly - to include a javascript fix and to make it a bit more browser safe - because I have Opera 7 as my test browser and it doesn't work, but does for Opera 8 (apparantly). Read the rest of this entry »
