Comments on: The 7 Golden Rules of White Hat Link Building

By: Marloes

Marloes — Sun, 27 Nov 2011 16:11:00 +0000

Great post, even now in 2011 it is still actual. As long as all your links are relevant, it will be good, do not look for only one way or follow links, it is all about natural looking patterns

By: Sebastian

Sebastian — Mon, 14 Feb 2011 09:00:17 +0000

Hi!
Google is always trying to identify sites that build links, to be able to devalue the links or even the sites. Having no “nofollow”-links looks really suspicious, because a natural backlink profile includes both follow and nofollow-links.
So if you have no nofollow-links, but your competitors have, Google will assume their backlink profile to be natural, whereas yours is gamed.
Also, nofollow-links don’t really mean (anymore) there’s no direct value in them. A Wikipedia link will always transport value to your site, even though it’s nofollow.

In short:
1. You need nofollow to look natural.
2. Having a nofollow-link from a strong site doesn’t hurt.

By: Social Media vSEO

Social Media vSEO — Sun, 13 Feb 2011 21:31:49 +0000

Over all, this is good info, but I am still a little unclear on the whole “unfollow” concept? For quite some time, when I post a new blog article, I use the WP open in a new page or open on the same page, but since using the SEOPressor plug-in and reading various SEO sites (like yours) I keep reading that no-follow is a must do. Not sure WHY this is the case and would like to know in more detail the reasons for this no-follow?

By: Richa sharma

Richa sharma — Thu, 20 Jan 2011 09:15:43 +0000

Great post great rules. It will really helps people to get more information about link building techniques. Link building is one of the best ways to boost your website traffic and rank better in the search engines.

By: Maurice

Maurice — Thu, 04 Nov 2010 19:22:50 +0000

Chris,

Great story. I like what you are saying about the value of link building in a natural way. SEO’s get caught up in doing things that only other SEO’s can appreciate. We need to remember google cares about improving the user experience not the SEO experience.

Keep it up.

By: Paul

Paul — Wed, 11 Aug 2010 16:16:21 +0000

The one thing Chris has tried to teach the world is link build naturaly, natural anchor text, natural locations, natural rate of link acquisition and the use of no follow too; this is a real gem!

For my 2 cents, I think the use of article directories is ok for syndication purposes and from here you will pick up some natural links, but not much link juice……

By: Alex

Alex — Tue, 25 May 2010 21:34:20 +0000

Are article directories a total no-no, or can they still be part of a link building process?

By: Aaron

Aaron — Wed, 20 Jan 2010 14:12:37 +0000

If PageRank no longer ment anything to the Google Algo then why would Google care if you purchased links or not?

If PR didnt matter than why would Google severely penalize websites that are caught buying links?

If it didnt matter then why are Google still talking large sites into using nofollow on some sections? If PR didnt matter then wouldnt that mean nofollow doesnt matter?

Good Post Chris, I liked it.

By: Henry @ Stock trading market

Henry @ Stock trading market — Thu, 14 Jan 2010 13:59:48 +0000

If google will change their algorithm from time to time than what is the point of a domain age concept?

Again, random page rank is about fresh content, if it goes back to this algorithm then it is against domain age concept.

I could show pages that has been 1st page ranked after a week of beeing published.

It goes to the end of an era Iam affraid, digital word is speeding up and real life values are fadeing away, hate this plastic world, where is dictatorship of google leads people destiny

By: Outtanames999

Outtanames999 — Thu, 24 Dec 2009 12:47:50 +0000

The truth is that the truth in SEO changes over time. So the question at any given time is, how long will the techniques that are working today continue working? When will Google catch on to what you are doing and smack you down again? Any SEO that knows the answers to these questions should contact me immediately!!