Comments on: Crafty SEO tactics for real estate bloggers http://www.realcentralva.com/2007/07/23/crafty-seo-tactics-for-real-estate-bloggers/ Tracking Charlottesville's Real Estate Market since 2005 Sat, 13 Mar 2010 16:41:01 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 hourly 1 By: Galen http://www.realcentralva.com/2007/07/23/crafty-seo-tactics-for-real-estate-bloggers/comment-page-1/#comment-8415 Galen Mon, 23 Jul 2007 16:21:35 +0000 http://www.realcentralva.com/2007/07/23/crafty-seo-tactics-for-real-estate-bloggers/#comment-8415 Jim, the worst thing is that comments don't help with the search engines. They created the no_follow tag explicitly to tackle this problem and every link in every comment on your blog and nearly every other blog has a tag that tells search engines not to count or follow that link because it could be from a spammer. This is nothing new - it's been around since 2005: http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2005/01/preventing-comment-spam.html Jim, the worst thing is that comments don’t help with the search engines. They created the no_follow tag explicitly to tackle this problem and every link in every comment on your blog and nearly every other blog has a tag that tells search engines not to count or follow that link because it could be from a spammer.

This is nothing new – it’s been around since 2005: http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2005/01/preventing-comment-spam.html

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