Comments on: Are all links equal?

By: Old Welsh Guy

Old Welsh Guy — Wed, 09 Jul 2008 12:33:10 +0000

Thanks Sam, I find too many [cough] ‘experts’ like to use techno babble when explaining things.

people understand analogies, hey it worked for that bloke Jesus, only he used a posher word, called them parables LOL

By: Sam Deeks

Sam Deeks — Tue, 08 Jul 2008 19:38:33 +0000

Nice analogy, OldWelshGuy, that’s my kind of explanation.

By: Amos Lews

Amos Lews — Wed, 11 Jun 2008 20:22:20 +0000

Hello:

I’m thinking about using Google Ad Words and this info has been useful.

Thanks

By: Old Welsh Guy

Old Welsh Guy — Wed, 09 Apr 2008 07:57:32 +0000

Frank: Personally I think it is nuts no following internal links. Effectively you are telling Google not to trust your own internal links.

Google have made it clear that you should avoid schemes aimed to increase your PageRank, so why do it?

Can you imagine being in Macey’s department store, looking up at the directional signs and seeing something along the lines of :~
Haberdashery – not recommended
Menswear – not recopmmended
Ladieswear – not recommended.

The first question asked would be ‘why are they not recommending their own areas? OK so the user will not see them, but the secret shopper will as they have the special power to find these things out. the Secret shopper is there to find out how you REALLY treat your customers. Googlebot is a secret shopper, it sees everything. So I really wouldn’t do it. Want more PR, get more links. Want to sculpt PR? I think a nap is needed

David: Thanks, I always try to use analogies as people can then grasp the method or process, without having to worry about technicalities of business or the web. it is something I have always done to make life easier. Glad you like.

By: David Leonhardt

David Leonhardt — Wed, 09 Apr 2008 01:47:05 +0000

Great post OWG. I have long been trying to use real world analogies to explain SEO — occasionally with some success — because way too many potential clients think this is a matter of science…as if we could grab the #2 or #3 spot for a given search term without bumping anybody from the top-10.

Yours is an excellent analogy for why short-term links are a waste of time.

By: Frank

Frank — Mon, 07 Apr 2008 22:41:16 +0000

A nice analogy that makes sense. Does this extend to the page rank sculpting topic that floated to the surface recently?

For instance, a situation where to sculpt pagerank from the site menu – a design might be to nofollow all the links to a certain page unless from pages inside that category.

All these votes of nofollow and yet a few votes of follow – interested in your opinion of what that says about the link ‘recommendations’.