SEO Religion

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.

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?

Google Adsense and Yahoo Publisher Network Ads that serve both contextual ads are against the policies of Google Adsense. But some people still mix Adsense and YPN together. Although you can combine Google Adsense with other ads, you cannot mix them with contextual ads.