WM Weblog » SEO http://www.wmweblog.com Webmaster Tips, Guides, Tutorials & Discoveries Mon, 31 May 2010 04:31:28 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 en hourly 1 Perfect SEO Friendly Forum URLs http://www.wmweblog.com/perfect-seo-friendly-forum-urls/ http://www.wmweblog.com/perfect-seo-friendly-forum-urls/#comments Mon, 04 Jan 2010 23:16:04 +0000 admin http://www.wmweblog.com/?p=234 Having explored all the most popular forum platforms – vBulletin, PHPbb, SMF and bbPress (the last one might not be one of the most popular forums tho) I had a really hard time getting smooth logical and SEO friendly urls. Something that would transform forums.com/php213dsubforum=?12 to forums.com/forum.

bbPress is the only forum, that I know of, that offers this out of the box. I thought for a while that I was stuck with that, which would have been okay if I did’nt want alot of cool features for my forums, but then I discovered a great mod for SMF that neighter vBulletin nor PHPbb seems to offer at the moment. The only solutions i could find for these platforms would carry some random numbers in the urls. And thanks to the great “package” section at the back end of SMF it only takes a few clicks to install it. The mod is called Pretty URLs and you can get it here!

]]> http://www.wmweblog.com/perfect-seo-friendly-forum-urls/feed/ 0 How do Google handle NoFollow Links? http://www.wmweblog.com/how-do-google-handle-nofollow-links/ http://www.wmweblog.com/how-do-google-handle-nofollow-links/#comments Tue, 01 Dec 2009 19:51:45 +0000 admin http://www.wmweblog.com/?p=207 Google originally created the nofollow attribute some years ago to help fight spam mainly used by automated blog commenters that would infest 90% of the public blogs on the web. A few weeks ago Google announced that now the PageRank value of a web page will be drained even by nofollow links. Now a web page will only be able to flow a certain % amount of link juice from non nofollow links based on how many links the page contains.

No matter if 9 out of 10 links carry the nofollow property or if 10 out of 10 links don’t the value of the PageRank for the web page will not be affected. This clearly indicates that Google now actually will pay attention – at least a little – to nofollow links also. If they don’t then where is all that PageRank value disappearing?

The new way of handling things would mean that alot of popular blogs that gets tons of comments for every new entry they post would be penalized for having alot of links to their commenters websites. I don’t see any change in the actual rankings so far but you should stay alert as of what to do next. If we here at WMWeblog.com hear that alot of webmasters report a big loss of their organic Google visitors we will write a blog post about it here asap!

]]> http://www.wmweblog.com/how-do-google-handle-nofollow-links/feed/ 0 Webmaster Forums with Search Engine Friendly DoFollow Signature Links http://www.wmweblog.com/webmaster-forums-with-search-engine-friendly-dofollow-signature-links/ http://www.wmweblog.com/webmaster-forums-with-search-engine-friendly-dofollow-signature-links/#comments Tue, 08 Sep 2009 01:23:28 +0000 admin http://www.wmweblog.com/?p=126 A webmaster is always on the lookout for more incoming backlinks. One of the ways to get them is to participate in discussions online. And since you’re a webmaster a smart way to get them while you learn new tricks of the trade is to be active on a good dofollow webmaster forum.

List of DoFollow Webmaster Forums that’s worth it!

  • Digital Point – Google PageRank: 4 and Alexa Rank: 284
    All kinds of webmaster topics
    All your posts on this forum will also link to your latest blog post.
  • v7n – Google PageRank:5 and Alexa Rank:4′000
    All kinds of webmaster topics
  • SEO.com Forums – Google PageRank:4 Alexa Rank:18′000
    SEO topics
    All your posts on this forum will also link to your latest blog post.
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