Comments on: This Month In SEO – 2/08

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By: Steven Bradley

Steven Bradley — Tue, 11 Mar 2008 17:56:05 +0000

Glad to supply the link Kurt. I liked the gardening analogy. It’s one I haven’t seen before.

By: Kurt Krejny

Kurt Krejny — Mon, 10 Mar 2008 19:27:31 +0000

Thanks for adding a link to my blog post!

By: Steven Bradley

Steven Bradley — Thu, 06 Mar 2008 05:17:00 +0000

@Forrest – The patent is interesting. It makes sense for any search engine to understand how a page is put together and see where links are coming from. A list of links in your footer is different than one in the middle of your content.

It’s become too easy to spam link quantity, which means stepping up the quality. By understanding boilerplate code an algorithm can make more decisions about which parts it considers more important.

@Tibi – Glad to provide the link. I enjoyed your post. Coming up with new post ideas gets difficult from time to time so any ideas for finding inspiration is welcome.

@Steven – Thanks. I hope I was able to point you to a few posts you might have missed.

@Eric – Thanks. I’m glad you liked the post. You know I hadn’t considered donations for a post, but I have no problem with it. I’ll have to think about adding one next time. Donations or not I promise I’ll have another post ready at the end of March.

@Jaan – Thanks for the compliment and for subscribing. I’ve been subscribed to your blog for awhile and need to remind myself to include more links to you here.

By: Jaan Kanellis

Jaan Kanellis — Tue, 04 Mar 2008 04:47:55 +0000

What a great write up Steve. I am now a subscriber.

By: Eric Ward

Eric Ward — Sat, 01 Mar 2008 22:29:16 +0000

Steven, extremely useful!! Why don’t you put a paypal donations button. I’d gladly pay a fee to keep getting TMISEO.

Eric

By: Steven Snell

Steven Snell — Sat, 01 Mar 2008 16:45:56 +0000

Thanks for the link. Nice collection of articles.

By: Tibi Puiu

Tibi Puiu — Sat, 01 Mar 2008 09:05:18 +0000

Thanks for the link, much appreciate it. Quite a nice resource of great articles you’ve managed to gather, I’ll take some time to read it now. btw do something about the spam comment from above.

By: Forrest

Forrest — Sat, 01 Mar 2008 04:29:31 +0000

Google doesn’t completely ignore boilerplate code in your pages, but they’ve devalued any repetitive links that are part of your template on every page. I turn up in searches that are partially satisfied by stuff in my footer or sidebar. It might be they’re good at ignoring more than a few links with the same anchor text on a given domain, and know nothing about de-duplication. But I think Google de-dupes sections of a page fairly well. Still, the patent was interesting reading … removing common elements might have some value, but anything following the word or symbol copyright obviously doesn’t work; this would be ignored.

I’ve been using nofollow for a while on my blog, to block access to my tag cloud. I might add categories and archives. Honesty I can’t really say whether it’s beneficial or not; too many other things are taking my time and attention, so I haven’t been that involved with my site. But, if you look at any blog with a lot of comments, you’ll see a lot of nofollow links. I don’t think that’s a good heuristic even if search engines do want to identify sites owned or worked on by seo types.

By: Chris Brogan...

Chris Brogan... — Sat, 01 Mar 2008 02:49:17 +0000

Amazing post of links. Great stuff to learn from. Thank you for assembling it.