Watching the various debate about Google’s nofollow initiative has been enlightening. Ostensibly, it was supposed to be a way to fight comment spam on weblogs, but predictably it took no time at all for people to figure out how to game the system. Also predictably, anti-nofollow support launched equally quickly. I won’t use it. At… Continue reading Much Ado About nofollow
Tag: Search Engines
Referrers, search engines, trends
Going through my site’s logfiles, I figured it’s about time for one of those navel-gazing site-analyzing posts. I’ve noticed some trends along the way, I think. By far, the most search engine hits I get are from Google; over the past 30 days, I clocked 2,617 hits from Google, nearly four times more than Yahoo… Continue reading Referrers, search engines, trends
Bots and JavaScript
Here’s something to think about: do any search engine bots and crawlers recognize and parse JavaScript? I haven’t heard of any (and I’m really too lazy right now to do any real research 🙂 ), but I got to thinking about this today, and there’s really no reason that they shouldn’t be able to handle… Continue reading Bots and JavaScript