URL Shortening Harmful, Use URL Masking / Cloaking Software Instead
URL shortening, and URL shortener services, are evolving rapidly into a real hype. And while they do make sense with Twitter (due to their 140 characters per tweet limitation), they are not all that harmless from a SEO perspective.
Be Careful With Your Blogging Language
… or you may be surprised of side effects, not all of which are amusing on second thought. Look what I discovered today…
SEO Page Rank Sculpting My Ass – Nofollow Meta Game Over
This is a post I wanted to write ever since mid summer this year, but never found the time to complete it. It presents another (and hopefully fresh) angle on the change in Google’s page rank algorithm, the new nofollow semantics, and their consequences for webmasters.
Stop Wasting SEO Juice – NoFollow Links To Flickr
This may not be big news, but I wasn’t really aware of it, and I can imagine there are others who aren’t aware either.
In early 2008, Flickr began NOFOLLOWing hyperlinks in their photo profile pages.
