Looking for a nice tool to find “nofollow” links when using Firefox? Check out the SEO for Firefox extension. When installed a small SEO logo will appear in the lower right of your browser that looks like the image below when active:
When inactive the extension turns grey. To toggle status click on the image. When the extension is active links that are “nofollowed” will be outlined in red like the image below:
Technically a link is nofollowed when the following code is added to the a href tag:
rel="nofollow"
What the nofollow tag does is it tells search engine robots not to follow that link. This is used in google’s case to keep a sites page rank without passing it on to a linked site. The nofollow tag can also be used on links within a site to keep the page rank on important pages. Wikipedia definition of nofollow.
Click here for more information on the SEO for Firefox tool.
Those with the extension installed will notice a couple of red links in this post.
Another handy feature is that the extension will display more information in your google or yahoo searches. The more information you can get with a single click is the page rank, site age, DMOZ listings, and more. See the link above for pictures of this feature.
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By default the stock osCommerce code is not really optimized at all. One contribution I have found useful is the “Really Easy HTML Title” contribution. The main downside to this is that you have to edit files manually to use it but you really only need to edit two files, the main ones: index.php and product_info.php. The rest are ok to edit but those two files take care of the main page, the product category page, and the product page itself. After the contribution is installed the page names will look like this:
Store Name - Category Name - Product Name
In the SEO arena every little bit helps and this contribution definitely fixes up the title tag.
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For those who prefer to go their own optimization (SEO) here is a link to a blog post with several helpful SEO resources.
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Did you know that a link from another website can be bad for your rankings? It can be if the site uses seedy search engine optimization techniques. The last thing an honest webmaster wants is their site being penalized for “spam” linking. This tool I found will detect “keyword stuffing”, doorway pages, and hidden text. All of these are bad practices. Just want to see the site? Well here it is Search engine spam detector.
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I found this article on ContentRelay about how to get your sites page rank (PR). It also shows how many incoming links you will need to get your page to a certain page rank. Here’s the link: http://lilurl.org/mtq9ww9.
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The German BMW site bmw.de was banned from Google for shady search engine optimization practices! Apparently what they were doing was showing the search engine one optimized page and showing other users their normal page. Just goes to show you that you have to be choosy about picking a company to do your SEO! More information on the Google ban of BMW.de
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Did you know? That search engines really like descriptive title tags? A page with a title tag of “welcome” or “index” will rarely appear in SERPs (search engine result pages). Check out some of the sites that Portal Planet has created. They’re listed on the home page and every page. Notice the title of the pages. So you know the title is
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