Comments on: Simple Steps to Increase Blog Traffic and Pagerank http://www.chipseo.com/2007/10/04/steps-increase-blog-traffic/ Practical eCommerce Marketing Solutions Fri, 21 Nov 2008 05:29:16 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.3.2 By: What is With the rel=nofollow Penalty | chipSEO.com Practical Web Marketing on Multiple Sales Channels http://www.chipseo.com/2007/10/04/steps-increase-blog-traffic/#comment-119 What is With the rel=nofollow Penalty | chipSEO.com Practical Web Marketing on Multiple Sales Channels Sat, 06 Oct 2007 04:28:04 +0000 http://www.chipseo.com/2007/10/04/steps-increase-blog-traffic/#comment-119 [...] in this post it will never be seen, so, I think I will go back and look at one of my own posts, Simple Steps to Increase Blog Traffic and Pagerank, and read step number 10. Have fun and be positive - if you get as far as a top ten list, number [...] […] in this post it will never be seen, so, I think I will go back and look at one of my own posts, Simple Steps to Increase Blog Traffic and Pagerank, and read step number 10. Have fun and be positive - if you get as far as a top ten list, number […]

]]> By: chipSEO http://www.chipseo.com/2007/10/04/steps-increase-blog-traffic/#comment-118 chipSEO Fri, 05 Oct 2007 12:57:01 +0000 http://www.chipseo.com/2007/10/04/steps-increase-blog-traffic/#comment-118 Hans, thanks for the comment, yes, I am aware of the "rel=nofollow" tag, I was just trying to keep it simple. You are correct, it is not going to directly help your PR (if that even matters when Google actually does do an update), I just think of it as a good practice. I don't have alexa's tool bar installed either... just trying to use some "known" traffic indicators. Thanks again, have have a great blog site yourself. Scott Hans, thanks for the comment, yes, I am aware of the “rel=nofollow” tag, I was just trying to keep it simple. You are correct, it is not going to directly help your PR (if that even matters when Google actually does do an update), I just think of it as a good practice.

I don’t have alexa’s tool bar installed either… just trying to use some “known” traffic indicators. Thanks again, have have a great blog site yourself. Scott

]]> By: Hans http://www.chipseo.com/2007/10/04/steps-increase-blog-traffic/#comment-117 Hans Fri, 05 Oct 2007 11:22:44 +0000 http://www.chipseo.com/2007/10/04/steps-increase-blog-traffic/#comment-117 Hi Scott, Nice post. SEO is something you can do yourself, for the most part anyway. I have some remarks though. Point 5, writing a comment on another blog, is useful when you want to make people curious about your own blog. It doesn't generate a higher PR. Almost all blog software I know of, adds the "rel=nofollow" tag to all URLs in an comment, instructing the Google bot to ignore it. Only when your content is worth it, other website/blog owners might add a permanent link to your blog. From that moment on, you start to accumulate "PR points". Content is the key. BTW, Google isn't feeding live PR values to its toolbar anymore for quite some time. As far as I know, PR values haven't been updated for months. It's their way of saying "don't focus on PR so much". Your screendump of Alexa puzzles me a bit. Alexa only counts visitors who, maybe by accident, installed their toolbar. Hardly of any (statistical) importance. Besides, their toolbar is considered to be spyware. Best regards, Hans Hi Scott,

Nice post. SEO is something you can do yourself, for the most part anyway. I have some remarks though.

Point 5, writing a comment on another blog, is useful when you want to make people curious about your own blog. It doesn’t generate a higher PR. Almost all blog software I know of, adds the “rel=nofollow” tag to all URLs in an comment, instructing the Google bot to ignore it.

Only when your content is worth it, other website/blog owners might add a permanent link to your blog. From that moment on, you start to accumulate “PR points”. Content is the key.

BTW, Google isn’t feeding live PR values to its toolbar anymore for quite some time. As far as I know, PR values haven’t been updated for months. It’s their way of saying “don’t focus on PR so much”.

Your screendump of Alexa puzzles me a bit. Alexa only counts visitors who, maybe by accident, installed their toolbar. Hardly of any (statistical) importance. Besides, their toolbar is considered to be spyware.

Best regards,

Hans

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