The very first time we saw Google maps having satellite photos for the first time has put us in awe. Then they kept pushing it further with Google Moon, Google Mars, Google Earth, and Google has even setup a campus within NASA grounds. News has it that Google and NASA will be talking about something on Monday, and some speculate it may be about iEarth.
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With my current list of best Firefox Plugins used for SEO, I have updated the post changing the links to the installers to the new versions and added two more SEO Firefox Extensions, the Link Counter, where I can quickly see the number of outbound and internal links on any given displayed page, and Live HTTP headers that I can use to check the HTTP headers while a page loads so I see if my 301 redirects are redirecting properly. Check the Best SEO Firefox Extensions here.
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I have expressed before in a previous post that the rel=”nofollow” link attribute is still followed. I did have a bit of a lengthy post while Rustybrick has mentioned in the latest episode of The Pulse, has kind of summarized it into 1 sentence where he mentioned:
Yes the search engines follow links that are tag as nofollow, but it does not necessarily count the links towards popularity.
So I guess that was better said. We all know link popularity is part of the search engine ranking equation. But the rel=”nofollow” will still crawled and can help index pages. One thing I believe in but has no solid proof, (but I believe there is really no absolute solid proof in many SEO concepts anyway unless confirmed by a representative from the search engines themselves) even with the rel=”nofollow” on the links, it will discount the link in the link popularity formula to avoid comment spam, it will still be checked to see in what kind of neighborhoods your website is in that will determine what your page is all about and help in the relevancy of search results. What do you think?
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