Flickr Is No Follow Free!
Dec 15th, 2008 | By Kevin | Category: Featured Posts, trafficWith the coming end of year, I am now in link building mode trying add more incoming links to the blog. Searching Google tonight I found a list of No Follow Free sites which included a few names you’ll recognize like Flickr.com and Digg.com. Technorati and Propellor from Netscape was also in the list.
You may be asking what in the world is No Follow Free? Robby LeBlanc, The Las Vegas Guitarist was asking me that tonight through instant messenger when I gave him the news.
When a link is added to a site, there is an optional parameter in the html that is meant to to tell the search engines whether or not their spider should follow the link. In the past, it was used frequently by SEO consultants to manage Google Pagerank drain from a site. Basically, they would want all incoming links to be No Follow Free, and all outbound links for a site to be No Follow. They would then go out and buy higher pagerank links to the sites they are promoting and ensure none of that pagerank was drained from the site by making all outbound links “No Follow”.
According to presentations Matt Cutts, the algorithms have changed a bit and it is no longer as cut and dry as that. Google is now expecting a certain level of outbound links on a site to make it legit. Of course they aren’t disclosing how many, but you should have some. I would not advice this on a salesletter though.
Here on the blog, we have added a Wordpress plugin so all of the links in the comments are No Follow Free. This is partially the reason why we get about 50 spam comments a day, but Akismet handles those pretty well. That said, if your looking for a link to your site on this blog, the easiest way to get one is post a WORTHWHILE comment.
Once you post a comment on here, be sure to subscribe to our RSS feed to watch for more posts to comment on as well.
So if your using Flickr.com to host your images (which you should be), be sure to include a description and link back to your website. Also don’t forget to tag your photos because the tags are used for searching as well.
Kevin
P.S. – I currently have an assistant working through a list of over 750 social bookmarking sites, identifying the ones that are still active, their pagerank, and Alexa rating. I will be releasing that report during the coming holiday, make sure to look for it on the blog, or subscribe to my email list to get a discount off the retail price when I release it. The updated Twitter Tactics videos will also be available after the first of the year so be sure to subscribe to get those as well.
Originally from Wisconsin, I moved out to Salt Lake City over ten years ago on a six month software development contract. I now have over 15 years in software development, and was introduced to internet marketing back in 2003. During the wild west days, our business focused on content sites for Adsense revenue. As it became harder and harder to keep up with the search engines, our business has evolved, and forced us to focus on building lists and creating products. We now have a list of about 5000 interested in goal setting, and a small internet marketing list of about 500.