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Backlinks, No Follow and Page Rank

by Martin on 18 March, 2009

in SEO

I received a question through my Dear Martin page the other day from someone who was asking how backlinks affected page rank, and how the ‘nofollow’ tag affected backlinks, therefore affecting page rank.
Here’s the response I offered:
The first thing I’d say is don’t get hung up on Page Rank and all that other SEO-type stuff.  [...]

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Do Follow, Don’t Follow, What The Heck

by Martin on 1 October, 2008

in Blogging

I’ve written a couple of times before (here and here) on whether or not to pay attention to the ‘no follow’ attribute when making comments on blogs. And both of those posts link to excellent posts by Jack Humphrey on the subject.
But I thought I’d scout around the web and bring you some differing [...]

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How To Lose Website Traffic

by Martin on 24 September, 2008

in Blogging

I saw another excellent rant by Jack Humphrey today on the question of No Follow.
Do you still look for No Follow blogs to comment on or link to?  If you do you’re wasting time and losing traffic.
I’ve written many times now, here and here for starters, on why it’s important to write for people, not [...]

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To Follow or Not To Follow

by Martin on 29 August, 2008

in Blogging

In all my posts about SEO I’ve written about the importance of writing for people, not the search engines.  My point being that what you actually want is for people to read your site, or blog, and to like what they read, because people will buy from you – the search engines won’t.
I saw a [...]

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