The Green Machine

Chris — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 14:40:57 +0000

It’s been a while since I’ve blogged! I now have ‘www.chrishamilton.com.au’ stuck across both sides of my Supra now, so figured it would be worth making changes to this blog and using it again for day to day discussion about things. I’ll still be posting about general SEO, my ideas, suggestions and thoughts. I’ll also make note of any major changes I see in the search results.

One thing I’ve noticed recently is that Online Marketing Group owned CreditCards.com.au recently dropped from the whole search results for the phrase ‘credit card‘. Although still maintaining their number one position of the plural ‘credit cards‘.

Lastly, in other SEO news – Matt Cutts and Google recently confirmed that the Caffeine Google update will roll onto all data centers sometime in January.

Anyway, if you’re interested in my new car.. head over to my supra page.

New Update

Utilising Social Media Sites

Chris — Fri, 28 Aug 2009 03:29:04 +0000

Many people know that some social media / social network websites will allow you to publish do-follow links on their accounts and that’s great, but many people get tricked into believing that these links are always worth something. More often than not, they are simply not worth their time. Why? A certain file named ‘robots.txt’. Let me explain.

For this article, we’ll use www.revolutionhealth.com as an example. This website has been doing the rounds lately with people jumping at the opportunity to ‘get a free link from a PR7 domain’. So let’s have a look. I setup my account, and I was able to add a do-follow link onto my profile back to my blog – http://www.revolutionhealth.com/community/people/profile/chrishamilton. Looks good right? Well it would, except for this – http://www.revolutionhealth.com/robots.txt. Contained in this file is -

User-agent: *
Disallow: /community/people/profile/

The bolded line highlights that the Webmaster of www.revolutionstaff.com wants to block search engines from reaching any page on the /community/profiles/people/ URL level and because the public link to my profile is http://www.revolutionhealth.com/community/people/profile/chrishamilton. That means that page will never get crawled or cached by search engines, rendering that particular ‘do-follow’ link useless.

People need to pay more attention to a domains robots.txt file. Just because a link is ‘do-follow’ does not mean its going to have any value to a search engine.

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