http://www.lavaball.com/design_development_tips/2008/01/21/google-giving-weight-to-nofollow-links-in-social-networks/ SEO, Search engine optimization Sun, 07 Sep 2008 05:51:19 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.1 http://www.lavaball.com/design_development_tips/2008/01/21/google-giving-weight-to-nofollow-links-in-social-networks/#comment-2642 duncan bloor Wed, 23 Jan 2008 15:34:34 +0000 http://www.lavaball.com/design_development_tips/2008/01/21/google-giving-weight-to-nofollow-links-in-social-networks/#comment-2642 I've been thinking the same thing for a while now and (for me) it was confirmed when I moved my old blogger account to a brand new domain on wordpress. I used no redirects and didn't inform any of my current inlinks that I was moving URL (I'd left the company and they still needed an SEO blog so it seemed churlish to take visitors that I'd built up on their time / wages). I did however inform my social networks of the move and had it stumbled etc. Low and behold, within 1 day I was ranking for 'search engine consultant' at number 3 in Google. (mysteriously I then dropped out of the top pages so maybe social networking sites just boost your rankings for a short period!?!?!) I’ve been thinking the same thing for a while now and (for me) it was confirmed when I moved my old blogger account to a brand new domain on wordpress.
I used no redirects and didn’t inform any of my current inlinks that I was moving URL (I’d left the company and they still needed an SEO blog so it seemed churlish to take visitors that I’d built up on their time / wages).
I did however inform my social networks of the move and had it stumbled etc. Low and behold, within 1 day I was ranking for ’search engine consultant’ at number 3 in Google.
(mysteriously I then dropped out of the top pages so maybe social networking sites just boost your rankings for a short period!?!?!)

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