May 31, 2011Some people will do anything to get a jump on hot news that will generate hits for their blog or forum. The more hits or "views" the more money the blog/forum makes. Advertisers pay promoters percentages on hits generated. Generate views/hits = more money for forum/blog owners who advertise. The more adds that a promoter puts on his web site and the more diversified the advertisements are .. the more chance of making major money.
One way individuals generate traffic is by providing false news and/or rumors and having links that circle back around to their own site. The other way is by cloaking, pagejacking, or clever ways of "link building". (all, which by the way, the internet police will be given more authority to enforce new internet rules see White House to unveil cyber-security strategy)
I did a little research and came up with a few different reasons. The most obvious reason was for someone trying to generate traffic or "views" to their site. See below
How to Deal with Web Site Cloaking
Through a process of IP delivery called cloaking, a Web site detects who’s requesting to see a page and may show a different version to a search engine spider than to all other users. So the spider sees and indexes content that isn’t what you would see if you went to that URL. If the purpose of cloaking is to deceive search engines (which is the very definition of spam), there is a severe penalty).
Cloaking can be handled in a couple of ways, depending on if it's your site or another site:
On your own site. Don’t do it without consulting an ethical professional, and even then be cautious. If you have pages that detect the search engine spiders and change the page content as a result, you’re operating in dangerous waters that could get your site banished from the search engines.
On other sites. If you suspect that a competitor is using cloaking to gain an undeserved ranking in the search engines, you can compare their Web page to the version of the page that the search engine last cached (stored in their index).
Do a search that you know will include that Web page in the results set, and click the Cached link under the URL. This shows you the Web page as it last looked to the search engine. If you see entirely different content when you go to their live site, you’re probably looking at cloaking, and you can definitely report it as spam.
It’s no wonder the search engines hate it. Although not all forms of IP delivery are evil, deceptive cloaking is always wrong
http://www.dummies.com/how-to/content/how-to-deal-with-web-site-cloaking.html
Another interesting article I found (someone looking to increase traffic to their site) ... article below she says ..
"Do Follow Blog Finder Gives You Max Link Juice"
She found this handy little tool the other day and wanted to pass it along.
A little background first: If you want success in blogging, you NEED inbound links. (it’s just part of the puzzle)
What’s an inbound link? Ex. You post a comment on someone’s blog and leave a link to your site along with it. Thus, you’ve created a link outside of your blog that has an inbound direction to your blog!
Why do you need them? The more inbound links you have out there, the more pathways to your blog for people to find! (a.k.a link juice) Google really likes them too
But Google doesn’t really like them all, because Google will only reward blog comments that are done on ‘Do Follow’ Blogs. A ‘Do Follow’ blog is one that allows Google to find the outbound links on it’s site.
Whether or not a blog is ‘Do Follow’ is totally up to the Webmaster of the site.
So, in the end, you WANT to leave comments and inbound links on ‘Do Follow’ blogs to help your blog get more link juice and more looks from Google.
How do you find ‘Do Follow’ blogs?
I found this tool @ http://www.inlineseo.com/dofollowdiver/
Simply type in your keyword and it will populate a list of blogs for that keyword that are ‘Do Follow’. A handy tool indeed .
Have you guys used this one or one that’s better? Comment and let me know!
What is DoFollow? What is NoFollow? Follow Along and See.
A little background first: If you want success in blogging, you NEED inbound links. (it’s just part of the puzzle)
What’s an inbound link? Ex. You post a comment on someone’s blog and leave a link to your site along with it. Thus, you’ve created a link outside of your blog that has an inbound direction to your blog!
Why do you need them? The more inbound links you have out there, the more pathways to your blog for people to find! (a.k.a link juice) Google really likes them too
But Google doesn’t really like them all, because Google will only reward blog comments that are done on ‘Do Follow’ Blogs. A ‘Do Follow’ blog is one that allows Google to find the outbound links on it’s site.
Whether or not a blog is ‘Do Follow’ is totally up to the Webmaster of the site.
So, in the end, you WANT to leave comments and inbound links on ‘Do Follow’ blogs to help your blog get more link juice and more looks from Google.
How do you find ‘Do Follow’ blogs?
I found this tool @ http://www.inlineseo.com/dofollowdiver/
Simply type in your keyword and it will populate a list of blogs for that keyword that are ‘Do Follow’. A handy tool indeed .
Have you guys used this one or one that’s better? Comment and let me know!
What is DoFollow? What is NoFollow? Follow Along and See.
March 15th, 2008
If you’ve been doing any kind of reading about link building, then you’ve probably seen people mentioning “nofollow” and “dofollow” links. These are very important terms to understand when you are trying to build great links back to your site in order to increase your search engine rankings. But, to the person who is new to all of this, it may be kind of confusing. I am going to help break it down for you.
When creating a link on a webpage using HTML, the standard code for that link is:
Search Engine OptimizationIt includes the HTML tag, the URL the link will be going to, the text that will be shown on the webpage for that link, and the closing HTML tag.
You are able to add more HTML to the code above, in order to tell the search engine spiders whether or not you want them to follow the link when crawling your website. You may be thinking… “Why wouldn’t I want the search engine spiders to see all of the links on my site?” This is a very valid concern, which I will address further down. First, I am going to show you how to modify the HTML in order to tell the search engine spiders to crawl a link or not.
To tell the spiders to crawl a link, you don’t have to do anything. Simply using the format shown above, the search engine spiders will crawl the link provided.
To tell the spiders to NOT crawl a link, you need to add the following code to the HTML code above:
rel="nofollow"It would then look like:
Search Engine OptimizationBasically, there is no true “dofollow”, it is just NOT using the “nofollow” tag. Pretty simple, eh? (No, I am not Canadian… well, kind of.)
Why does this matter?
When you are using different methods (hopefully from this site) in order to build links on other websites (to increase your search engine rankings), you need to determine if the websites you are attempting to get your site listed on use the “nofollow” tag or not. If they do, it may still be a good idea to try to get that link there, but it is generally regarded as not the best use of time since the search engines don’t follow that link and you don’t get any increase in search engine rankings from that link.
So, when you are looking for sites and blogs that you could leave your link on (through reciprocal links, commenting on a blog, directory submissions, buying links, etc) figure out if the links in the particular section of the site you are aiming for uses “nofollow” or not. (A good way to do this is to view the source code, or find some good “dofollow” lists such as Courtney Tuttle’s D-list )
Why wouldn’t I want the search engine spiders to see all of the links on my site? (Or, Why would I use “nofollow”?)
There are many reasons you would want to use the “nofollow” tag, such as:
1) Paid Links: This is recommended by Google. Essentially, your sites page rank give a small amount of rank juice to the sites you link to (which helps their search engine ranking, which is the purpose of link building, to get that juice from others). If you have a paid link on your site, it’s essentially buying a higher rank in Google. They don’t like that.
2) Maybe in your blog’s comment section (if using most blog software, this is automatic). It is up to you if you want your commentators to get link juice back to their site. It is personal preference.
3) When linking to major, very popular sites. If you are linking to google.com, yahoo.com, digg.com (the front page), cnn.com, or whoever else, they are already popular, so you might as well use “nofollow” since your link won’t make or break them.
I hope this has been helpful. Feel free to comment or use the contact link in the top right of the page if you have any questions about this, or any link building subject.
http://www.inlineseo.com/blog/2008/03/15/what-is-dofollow-what-is-nofollow-follow-along-and-see/
