Comments on: Trackbacking Lies – How rel=”nofollow” Stops Spreading the Love

By: Ashley Beolens

Ashley Beolens — Thu, 08 Dec 2011 16:49:14 +0000

I know this blog is 6 years old (just stumbled across it), but do people still pingback etc?

By: Calsion@Adhesive Silicone Bra

Calsion@Adhesive Silicone Bra — Sun, 25 Jul 2010 11:50:08 +0000

Your Message Thank you Yaro on your article on Trackbacked and Piggyback. I’m a newbie and trying to figure out what is what in internet marketing.That’s why I join your blogtrafficking.com newsletter.

By: Yaro

Yaro — Sat, 17 Jul 2010 02:31:25 +0000

John I’m not sure what you mean – did you find a mis-directed link?

By: John

John — Sat, 17 Jul 2010 00:45:59 +0000

Yaro, it’s very disappointing to be linked to this page to find the content is not what the link text “How exactly Yaro makes money from the Internet” promises. In addition, your “first blog” link at the beginning of the artile is not working.

By: Zulit - SEO in 2010 – Artificial Linking Is Dead

Zulit - SEO in 2010 – Artificial Linking Is Dead — Sun, 27 Dec 2009 19:06:36 +0000

[...] you want to know more about nofollow tags and structure, read here. (you’re welcome [...]

By: Link Building Part III – Backtracks and Pingbacks | Blog Income Life

Link Building Part III – Backtracks and Pingbacks | Blog Income Life — Thu, 08 Oct 2009 22:57:26 +0000

[...] example. I found that none other than Yaro Starak had posted on this very same topic on his blog http://www.Entrepreneurs-journey.com . Here Yaro talks about backlinks, pingbacks and backtracks … yes, I know, just thinking [...]

By: Volksphone

Volksphone — Mon, 21 Sep 2009 16:30:38 +0000

In germany many bloggers have the fear to loose linkjuice if they mark the outgoing links as dofollow. This is sadly. For me every link I am linking on my blog is dofollow because I think if I set up this link this blog or website is really good informatione. Many bloggers in germany set up a trackback to get a link back but if they mark it as nofollow they are being marked as spam

Sadly but its true,

Cheers,
Volksphone!

By: Larry C.

Larry C. — Tue, 11 Aug 2009 06:46:10 +0000

Yaro, thanks for this post. I have been noticing this nofollwo thing lately and was looking for an explanation and decided to come here to se if you blogged about it. sure enough.
I would think though that some of the older WP blogs may not have this nofollow thing turned on by default.???

By: Media Influence

Media Influence — Mon, 13 Jul 2009 21:43:12 +0000

I still haven’t decided whether I like trackbacks being present on my postings. Yes I see the usefulness in linking similar subject posts together but often it seems like it’s a one way street. I accept their trackbacks but nowhere on their postings do they accept theirs as well. Perhaps it’s a selfish way of viewing things, but being someone who works in the online marketing world, I can spot a lot of people doing it for the sake of SEO and that really bothers me.

By: Google now tells you how to rank?

Google now tells you how to rank? — Sun, 01 Feb 2009 16:40:14 +0000

[...] etc these are pages that probably dont make you money, so why have them rank. Find out more at: Trackback Lies and Link [...]

By: What is RSS and How Do I Use It? — BlogYourOwnBusiness.com

What is RSS and How Do I Use It? — BlogYourOwnBusiness.com — Mon, 03 Dec 2007 02:19:33 +0000

[...] had read a book about it but I had no idea how it all worked with syndication of content. Just as I learnt how trackbacks work by actually using them I did the same with syndication. I also took the time to read the [...]

By: irc

irc — Tue, 28 Aug 2007 13:03:29 +0000

Wikipedia ist ein Community-Projekt, welches ohne Werbung auskommt und extrem davon profitiert, dass es von anderen Seiten verlinkt wird. Man kann sicher darüber streiten, ob Wikipedia überhaupt noch einen Pagerank benötigt, da die großen Suchmaschinen ihre Artikel ja eh anders als normale Webseiten behandeln.

By: Jess

Jess — Tue, 19 Jun 2007 08:45:04 +0000

didn’t understand what’s “PageRank leakage” means. If you ahve 5PR and I have 2PR, does this mean that if I place my link to your site and many other 1-2PRs will do the same, your own PR will drop from 5 to 4?

By: The Single, Most Profound Way To Thank Your Commenters - Dawud Miracle @ dmiracle.com - (formerly Healthy WebDesign)

Thu, 29 Mar 2007 12:57:36 +0000

[...] seems that all blogware – WordPress, TypePad, Blogger, Movable Type, etc – inserts a little piece of code in all outgoing links that come from comments. In an attempt to stop comment [...]

By: mcewen

mcewen — Wed, 17 Jan 2007 01:26:21 +0000

thanks for the post about trackbacks but they don’t seem any different from ‘comments’ just more work.
Yours, the technically challenged one!

By: Ana Luiza

Ana Luiza — Mon, 27 Nov 2006 18:05:54 +0000

Hi Yaro

Sorry – I meant MSN and Altavista links. Yes, measured with their link checking tools.

I guess I’ll just have to be patient… Thanks again

By: Yaro

Yaro — Mon, 27 Nov 2006 17:50:14 +0000

I’m not sure what you mean Ana when you say you have Alexa and MSN links but not Google? Do you mean you have links from these sites or that you mean you use their link checking tools and they show links from other sites but Google doesn’t show any?

If the latter is the case then don’t worry – the Google backlink checker is not a comprehensive tool and it’s widely known that it doesn’t provide any authoritative data on backlinks to your site.

By: Ana Luiza

Ana Luiza — Mon, 27 Nov 2006 13:09:14 +0000

Hi Yaro,
I just read your newsletter of Nov 20 and arrived here. Thanks for explaining this – I’m using WordPress and as a non-tech person I had to interact quite a bit with plugin writers to figure out installation details for some plugins.

My blog is still new so I haven’t really exchanged links or registered for directories yet, but when I used the software Good Keywords and saw that there were no Google links for my blog I was mystified – I knew I had inserted a blog link in my comments!

The funny thing is, I have Alexa and MSN links – seems they’re easier to get than Google’s. I’ll look around your archives to see if you’ve written anything about this… If not, here goes a suggestion for a post.. why is that so?

By: Abigail

Abigail — Wed, 01 Nov 2006 16:55:49 +0000

Good news…

Yes, I’ve heard of “decaf.” What’s your point?
…

By: Anthony

Anthony — Wed, 01 Nov 2006 16:55:33 +0000

Good news…

“One world, one web, one program” — Microsoft promotional ad
“Ein Volk, ein Reich, ein Fuehrer” — Adolf Hitler
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By: Michael

Michael — Tue, 31 Oct 2006 18:31:56 +0000

Nice…

The computer revolution is over. The computers won.
…

By: affiliate

affiliate — Sun, 22 Oct 2006 01:03:10 +0000

I recently had a former client who had set up an affiliate program with Shareasale write and ask how he could more actively promote his affiliate program. Again, it made me realize that a program will only be as successful as itâ€™s affiliates, and the pareto principle definitely comes into play (meaning 90% of your sales will come from 10% of your people). If your program doesnâ€™t stand out, you wonâ€™t be remarkable. Attracting the right people and keeping them motivated is critical to the success of an affiliate marketing program. Creating working relationships with good synergy is key as well. If you sell peanut butter, partner with a site that sells jelly. Make it EASY for those around you to make money, and they will often try to reciprocate. Work with your affiliates to get rankings and sales

By: dsw

dsw — Sun, 13 Aug 2006 20:48:59 +0000

But Nofollow tag can be very useful sometimes, like you can add nofollow tag to affiliate links, because Google don’t like affiliate links.

By: SpinningSilk Multimedia News & Reviews » Blog Archive » Trackbacking

Wed, 28 Jun 2006 13:41:18 +0000

[...] If you are a blogger you may want to use the trackback feature found on some blogging software as opposed to leaving comments. Let me explain or rather let me give you a link to someone who has already explained it. Of course you need to have your own blog with the ability to include trackbacks. I like this concept because it encourages the true interconectivity the web was designed, participation and the value of giving. [...]

By: Yaro

Yaro — Mon, 19 Jun 2006 04:37:04 +0000

Hey CG – Join my blogtrafficking.com newsletter and you will find out about trackbacks and pingbacks – in issue 4 I think if I remember correctly.

Regarding the rel=”external” on links – I installed the “dofollow” wordpress plugin so all links are followed by search engines and pass on pagerank. The default in wordpress is to use the nofollow tag.

By: CG

CG — Sun, 11 Jun 2006 11:35:39 +0000

I noticed that the links on Yaro’s blog are rel=”external” rather than “nofollow”… any ideas?

And what’s the difference between a trackback and a pingback?

By: How To Get A New Site Listed In The Search Engines » Entrepreneur’s Journey - by Yaro Starak

Wed, 23 Nov 2005 14:10:01 +0000

[...] A note about blog commenting – thanks to the NoFollow tag which many blogs have on by default, your comments will not be followed by the Google spider. Read this article – Trackbacking Lies – How rel=Ã¢â‚¬ÂnofollowÃ¢â‚¬Â Stops Spreading the Love – for information about – for information about the NoFollow tag. [...]

By: Entrepreneur’s Journey » Search Engine Optimization: The Backlink FAQ

Entrepreneur’s Journey » Search Engine Optimization: The Backlink FAQ — Sun, 11 Sep 2005 00:31:54 +0000

[...] As a comparison, Google currently gives this blog 170 backlinks. Yahoo! reports more than 1600. Part of this is because of my blog commenting activities. Many blogs use the rel=”nofollow” tag so the comments I have left on other blogs with a backlink to Entrepreneur’ s Journey will not be followed by Google and won’t count as a backlink. No I’m not sure but I don’t think Yahoo! and MSN are taking notice of the rel=”nofollow” tag as yet so blog commenting is showing up in their backlink indexes. [...]

By: Entrepreneur’s Journey » No More NoFollow

Entrepreneur’s Journey » No More NoFollow — Tue, 23 Aug 2005 04:53:14 +0000

[...] I wrote an article titled Trackbacking Lies – How rel=Ã¢â‚¬ÂnofollowÃ¢â‚¬Â Stops Spreading the Love which outlined how the rel=”nofollow” line of code is placed on all comments and trackbacks on many blogs, including by default on any blog running WordPress, such as Entrepreneur’s Journey. [...]

By: sw’as » Spate of plugin installations

sw’as » Spate of plugin installations — Tue, 23 Aug 2005 04:16:41 +0000

[...] The first plugin I installed was one to make the rel=”nofollow” go away. It is automatically inserted by WordPress in links in comments. There has been a little bit of discussion on the nofollow directive around the place lately and I’m siding with the dofollow camp. My reasons for siding with dofollow are explained much better by others around the place, including the authors of the various dofollow plugins that are available1. I went with this one, for no particular reason. It does the job. [...]