Thursday, March 25, 2010
Googles Matt Cutts SEO Tips III
Now the final part of my quick summary of some Webmaster Help videos;
Why Does The Link: Operator Not Work?
Matt explained that Google only shows a small selection of the inbound links to your website when you use this search term. To get the full list of inbound links you need to look in Google Webmaster Tools. He said that this was so that your competitors cannot find out who backlinks to you but I must admit that did seem a bit lame to me as there are so many other tools on the internet that you can use freely to show the backlinks to any website.
Does Pagerank flow from Nofollow links on Sites like Wikipaedia?
He said categorically that PR does not flow on any nofollow links. He explained that the point of getting backlinks from authorititive websites who use nofollow is so that people find your website from these well-known sites then visit your website and add their own link to you which hopefully will NOT be nofollow.
Does Pagerank Flow Through URL Shortened Links?
Matt said that if the URL shortener has been set up properly with a 301 redirect then it will be treated as any other 301 redirect and PR will flow.
My next post will be on Matt’s suggestions for link building.
