[wp-hackers] Best SEO plugin?

Mon Nov 8 02:14:42 UTC 2010

What about this plugin?

http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/nofollow-case-by-case/

Chris Carter
314media.com

On Nov 7, 2010, at 8:06 PM, David Law
<wp-hackers at google-adsense-templates.co.uk> wrote:

> On Sun, 7 Nov 2010 19:46:03 -0500, you wrote:
>
>> Or, alternatively, use the get_comment_author_link filter to remove
>> the nofollow attribute. http://phpxref.ftwr.co.uk/wordpress/nav.html?wp-includes/comment-template.php.source.html#l138
>>
>> William P. Davis
>> will.davis at gmail.com
>> 207.660.5342
>> http://twitter.com/williampd
>> http://www.wpdavis.com
>
>
> Not helpful if you don't want to link out to anyone who can find your
> site and paste a URL into a comment form or use a script to
> automatically spam your site for links. I only link to sites in a way
> that passes SEO benefit when I choose to link to that site.
>
> Unfortunatly allowing dofollow links in your comments can result in
> your site being added to dofollow lists which are shared amongst
> comment spammers.
>
> I'd like to see core WordPress have the ability to both allow and
> block author URLs etc... in multiple ways without harming a sites SEO.
>
> David
> --
> Monetize your WordPress blog with Search Engine Optimized templates
> including AdSense ads http://www.google-adsense-templates.co.uk/
>
>>
>>
>> On Nov 7, 2010, at 7:19 PM, David Law wrote:
>>
>>> On Sun, 7 Nov 2010 18:18:03 +0000, you wrote:
>>>
>>>>
>>>> On 7 Nov 2010, at 17:34, scribu wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> On Sun, Nov 7, 2010 at 7:07 PM, Peter Westwood <peter.westwood at ftwr.co.uk
>>>>>> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>> On 7 Nov 2010, at 00:41, AdSense Templates wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>>> http://core.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/10550
>>>>>>> http://wordpress.org/support/topic/287704?replies=1
>>>>>>> http://codex.wordpress.org/Talk:Template_Tags/comment_reply_link
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> This is a massive SEO issue with WordPress, if you want to
>>>>>>> understand
>>>>>>> the problem and see some partial solutions see
>>>>>>>
>>>>>> http://www.google-adsense-templates.co.uk/wp-content/themes/talian-adsense-clickbank-seo-05/readme/08-nofollow-problems.txt
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> You haven't provided any evidence for your claims to support your
>>>>>> request
>>>>>> for changes.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Where can we see documentation which shows that PR is reduced due
>>>>>> to the
>>>>>> nofollow on these links?
>>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> It's mentioned in the ticket:
>>>>>
>>>>> http://www.mattcutts.com/blog/pagerank-sculpting/
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Thanks
>>>>
>>>> It doesn't sound so OMG important as the poster suggested as I
>>>> expected.
>>>>
>>>> Cheers
>>>
>>> Here's an easy to follow example.
>>>
>>> I have a WordPress page set to show 50 comment threads with comment
>>> threading turned on of course.
>>>
>>> Each full page of comments will have at least 50 Reply to Comments
>>> links, that's a minimum 50 nofollow links on highly commented pages.
>>>
>>> Every link on a page shares the PR/link benefit that's flowing through
>>> that page, doesn't matter if it's an internal link or an external
>>> link, they all gain a fair share of the link benefit. If overall a
>>> page has 100 links from it, each gains 1/100th of the link benefit
>>> flowing through that page.
>>>
>>> This example page has another 50 links from it, combination of
>>> internal and external links (category links, tag links, home page
>>> links, blogroll etc...), so in total we have 100 links, 50 are
>>> nofollow and 50 are not nofollow.
>>>
>>> Since nofollow deletes PR/link benefit equal to one link share rather
>>> than protects it as this attribute was initially intended to do, this
>>> page looses half it's link benefit that could go to other pages the
>>> page links to for no gain.
>>>
>>> If you don't think loosing 50% of a pages link benefit for no gain
>>> isn't an OMG issue, you don't understand the importance of link
>>> benefit to SEO. It's the most important SEO factor that takes most
>>> effort to achieve.
>>>
>>> Like I said before, I have a popular jokes site with almost 18,000
>>> user comments, this is on a site with about 1,500 posts. If I allowed
>>> 18,000+ nofollow links on a site I might as well dofollow the links
>>> and allow link spammers free reign on the comments, at least that way
>>> the link benefit actually benefits someone rather than deleting it!
>>> That site is breaking through the 15,000 unique visitors a day mark
>>> and it's home page is only PR3 (I waste no link benefit, it all works
>>> on my sites).
>>>
>>> The Reply to Comment links is the extreme of this problem and fixing
>>> it is a big move forward. The nofollow links of authors links is less
>>> damaging, but it is damaging all the same and if it can be fixed in
>>> WordPress it should be (again doesn't hurt my sites, I've solved the
>>> problem, it's WordPress users who are loosing Google rankings).
>>>
>>> If 20% of your commenters add an author URL or link from the body of
>>> comments and your blog has 500 comments, that's 100 nofollow links
>>> that's deleting valuable link benefit.
>>>
>>> There's monetary value to dofollow links, depending on how you sell
>>> links it can be $10 a link per month for a PR0 page on a site with a
>>> decent home page PR. The wasted link benefit of those 100 nofollow
>>> links could be $1,000 a month, if they are on pages with PR they are
>>> worth more.
>>>
>>> Some WordPress sites will be deleting enough link benefit to run
>>> successful online eccomerce stores!
>>>
>>> BTW This is one of the reasons why the so called SEO plugins aren't
>>> SEO plugins, they have options to add more nofollow links!!!
>>>
>>> David
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