Comments on: Two Issues: Spam and Non-Reciprocal Links http://thistimethisspace.com/2008/04/06/two-issues-spam-and-non-reciprocal-links/ skillful means for conscious living Mon, 28 May 2012 02:48:58 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: brightfeather http://thistimethisspace.com/2008/04/06/two-issues-spam-and-non-reciprocal-links/#comment-1077 Sat, 12 Apr 2008 17:30:24 +0000 http://thistimethisspace.com/2008/04/06/two-issues-spam-and-links/#comment-1077 You’re welcome Nita. :)

]]> By: Nita http://thistimethisspace.com/2008/04/06/two-issues-spam-and-non-reciprocal-links/#comment-1076 Sat, 12 Apr 2008 02:29:50 +0000 http://thistimethisspace.com/2008/04/06/two-issues-spam-and-links/#comment-1076 Thanks for that advise. In fact after I read this post I have already cleaned up my blogroll quite a bit. Now I shall do this with the media links too. Thanks again!

]]> By: brightfeather http://thistimethisspace.com/2008/04/06/two-issues-spam-and-non-reciprocal-links/#comment-1075 Thu, 10 Apr 2008 20:32:33 +0000 http://thistimethisspace.com/2008/04/06/two-issues-spam-and-links/#comment-1075 Hi Nita,
I found one comment in the spam filter and fished it out. You can attach rel=”nofollow” to the media links you are concerned about. The result will be that the search spiders will ignore it when indexing your site for page rank determination. I’m doing this now on my resources blog because I have 3 pages of resource links that would otherwise suck the page rank right out of it.

]]> By: Nita http://thistimethisspace.com/2008/04/06/two-issues-spam-and-non-reciprocal-links/#comment-1074 Tue, 08 Apr 2008 17:17:21 +0000 http://thistimethisspace.com/2008/04/06/two-issues-spam-and-links/#comment-1074 I posted a comment but it disappeared. Must have gone into spam I think

]]> By: Nita http://thistimethisspace.com/2008/04/06/two-issues-spam-and-non-reciprocal-links/#comment-1073 Tue, 08 Apr 2008 17:15:16 +0000 http://thistimethisspace.com/2008/04/06/two-issues-spam-and-links/#comment-1073 Brightfeather I understand that but there is another problem. You see I have a lot of links to media sites and other useful sites which I feel a reader might find useful. Those sites are top sites (for example times of india) and they will never link to me. So then what do I do?

]]> By: brightfeather http://thistimethisspace.com/2008/04/06/two-issues-spam-and-non-reciprocal-links/#comment-1072 Mon, 07 Apr 2008 19:21:15 +0000 http://thistimethisspace.com/2008/04/06/two-issues-spam-and-links/#comment-1072 @nita
Yikes! I answered you and then I accidentally deleted my response (red-faced). If you take a look at the A blogger’s pages/sites they do not have Blogrolls as long as their arms. They carry very few links and those that they do carry are relevant links to related topic blogs with reciprocating links in place. They track their links and are watchful when it comes to reciprocation.

Spiders from some search engines will stop crawling your page when they reach 100 links. So if your front page has more than 100 links on it (check the whole page, including links in the posts and in the sidebars) then it’s advised from a SEO (search engine optimization) perspective that you should cut them back so they are not a drain on your blog’s page rank.

Every link is a sieve that does nothing for your blog and in fact actually leaks out page rank when there is no reciprocating link in place. Knowing that means that to preserve and protect the page rank that this blog has descended to I have 3 choices:

(1) delete all non-reciprocating links;
(2) retain the url address but break the linkage to it Example: thistimethisspace instead of http://thistimethisspace.com
(3) attach a no follow tag to the link rel=”nofollow”

Resources for maintaining and tracking links.

Comments: When anyone posts a comment to this blog entering a username, email address and blog url then their username will be linked to their blog. I will not break that link unless I determine that it’s being used to direct traffic to a page/blog/site that’s either commercial, covered in advertising an/or spammy or sploggish. The same thing goes for links included in comments boxes.

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