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Opinions on Social Media Links From Prime Website?

panana — Mon, 16 Nov 2009 00:48:36 GMT

Aloha All -

I'm getting ready to put the links from a client website to their different social media accounts. You click on the Twitter icon, you go to their twitter account, etc.

It looks like we're going to put them on every page - Twitter, FaceBook & YouTube. I might be getting too concerned about this, but thought I should run it by others who might have an angle on this. Here's my question:

Should I 'nofollow'those links AND if so, should I 'nofollow' them on every page or just the non-homepages, for example?

While there might be some benefit to feeding them link juice, I'm always hesitant to give that out without a really good reason.

Any opinions?

thanks for any help that can be offered
Jon

Caffeine is ready for a larger audience

Carlos Chac�n — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 23:21:15 GMT

Now that Google announced the end of this sandbox... what�s going to be next? When do you think they are going to activate Caffeine "more widely"? :confused:

Why are search results from google so different from the others?

bikeman — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 10:57:55 GMT

Why are google's search results so different from Bing, Yahoo etc?

Yes i know they're all different algorithms (although I thought Yahoo now used Googles search results?). But surely they are all striving for the the same thing so their results shouldn't be too different.

My business ranks number 1 or 2 for keywords which are qualified by my town e.g. in every search engine except google but shows no where in Google. Obviously from my perspective Google is wrong and teh others are right ;-)

I used to get similar results in Google but now my site is way down, like on page 10.

Why are Google's search results so different?

Do SEOs now have to choose between Google and the others when optimising?

No longer in search results for company name

bikeman — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 10:49:10 GMT

Can anyone suggest why my website is about page 10 in google search for my companyname; loads of obscure directories are listed first.

Only searches for www.companyname.co.uk (yes companyname and domain are the same)find my listing.

I have started adding companyname to every page title to try to resolve.

Any thoughts on how to get my website listing above the directories that link to it?

what's happened to local search?

bikeman — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 10:42:30 GMT

Or more specifically why does google.co.uk local search work for

plumber
electrician

but not for

web designer
wesite design etc?

Always used to work

Has google got something against our profession?

Non Important Page Stealing PR

neroma — Fri, 30 Oct 2009 22:05:03 GMT

Hi Guys,

Ive been working on a client's site and ive noticed that for one of the keyword were going for, we are in the top ten but seem to be hanging around 8th-10th place. I have also noticed that another page in the site is also ranking for the same keyword, and seems to be moving up at a fairly rapid rate (around page 6 as I write this). This page is what I would call 'a filler page' it's basically a page called 'meet the team'.

I have thought about putting this as noindex, however what happens to the link juice/pr this page has accrued. Will the be pumped back into the first page keyword?

Thanks guys for your input

Kind Regards
Neil