Comments on: 10 Traffic-Stealing Weeds That Suck the Life Out of Your Google Garden and How to Yank Them http://www.fathomseo.com/blog/index.php/10-traffic-stealing-weeds-that-suck-the-life-out-of-your-google-garden-and-how-to-yank-them/ SEO news, trends & analysis from the search marketing experts. Thu, 09 Sep 2010 21:02:47 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Mark [Universal Search] Effinger http://www.fathomseo.com/blog/index.php/10-traffic-stealing-weeds-that-suck-the-life-out-of-your-google-garden-and-how-to-yank-them/comment-page-1/#comment-1078 Mark [Universal Search] Effinger Sat, 01 Mar 2008 05:05:47 +0000 http://www.fathomseo.com/blog/index.php/2008/02/18/10-traffic-stealing-weeds-that-suck-the-life-out-of-your-google-garden-and-how-to-yank-them/#comment-1078 Excellent post, Kurt. We've been struggling with where to appropriately position nofollow within larger sites. Thinking in terms of "what pages do you want to see in SERPs" is WAY more customer-centric than simply managing Page Rank. That's something our clients can clearly understand. Brilliant post. Mark Alan Effinger RichContent.com Excellent post, Kurt.
We’ve been struggling with where to appropriately position nofollow within larger sites.

Thinking in terms of “what pages do you want to see in SERPs” is WAY more customer-centric than simply managing Page Rank. That’s something our clients can clearly understand. Brilliant post.
Mark Alan Effinger
RichContent.com

]]> By: SEO700 http://www.fathomseo.com/blog/index.php/10-traffic-stealing-weeds-that-suck-the-life-out-of-your-google-garden-and-how-to-yank-them/comment-page-1/#comment-1065 SEO700 Fri, 29 Feb 2008 14:14:33 +0000 http://www.fathomseo.com/blog/index.php/2008/02/18/10-traffic-stealing-weeds-that-suck-the-life-out-of-your-google-garden-and-how-to-yank-them/#comment-1065 great tips!! Thanks for sharing. great tips!! Thanks for sharing.

]]> By: Mike Murray http://www.fathomseo.com/blog/index.php/10-traffic-stealing-weeds-that-suck-the-life-out-of-your-google-garden-and-how-to-yank-them/comment-page-1/#comment-1062 Mike Murray Thu, 28 Feb 2008 12:54:51 +0000 http://www.fathomseo.com/blog/index.php/2008/02/18/10-traffic-stealing-weeds-that-suck-the-life-out-of-your-google-garden-and-how-to-yank-them/#comment-1062 You really keyed in on critical site vulnerabilities. Nice job. You really keyed in on critical site vulnerabilities. Nice job.

]]> By: Sammi_A http://www.fathomseo.com/blog/index.php/10-traffic-stealing-weeds-that-suck-the-life-out-of-your-google-garden-and-how-to-yank-them/comment-page-1/#comment-1058 Sammi_A Mon, 25 Feb 2008 17:26:10 +0000 http://www.fathomseo.com/blog/index.php/2008/02/18/10-traffic-stealing-weeds-that-suck-the-life-out-of-your-google-garden-and-how-to-yank-them/#comment-1058 These are great tips! I think often we overlook the "weeds" because we are focused on providing more content. It's important to remove those components with little or no value that could affect the indexing of other pages on your website. These are great tips! I think often we overlook the “weeds” because we are focused on providing more content. It’s important to remove those components with little or no value that could affect the indexing of other pages on your website.

]]> By: Kurt Krejny http://www.fathomseo.com/blog/index.php/10-traffic-stealing-weeds-that-suck-the-life-out-of-your-google-garden-and-how-to-yank-them/comment-page-1/#comment-1051 Kurt Krejny Thu, 21 Feb 2008 04:20:48 +0000 http://www.fathomseo.com/blog/index.php/2008/02/18/10-traffic-stealing-weeds-that-suck-the-life-out-of-your-google-garden-and-how-to-yank-them/#comment-1051 Paul, bandwidth drainage on large websites is definitely a negative effect from weed-like pages, and the rate at which they are crawled/indexed. Thanks for adding this! Paul, bandwidth drainage on large websites is definitely a negative effect from weed-like pages, and the rate at which they are crawled/indexed. Thanks for adding this!

]]> By: Internet Marketing Joy http://www.fathomseo.com/blog/index.php/10-traffic-stealing-weeds-that-suck-the-life-out-of-your-google-garden-and-how-to-yank-them/comment-page-1/#comment-1050 Internet Marketing Joy Wed, 20 Feb 2008 19:34:17 +0000 http://www.fathomseo.com/blog/index.php/2008/02/18/10-traffic-stealing-weeds-that-suck-the-life-out-of-your-google-garden-and-how-to-yank-them/#comment-1050 Thanks for posting these tips on how to yank traffic stealing weeds..^^ and by the way..I love the comparison..^^ great work Kurt! Thanks for posting these tips on how to yank traffic stealing weeds..^^ and by the way..I love the comparison..^^ great work Kurt!

]]> By: Paul Richlovsky http://www.fathomseo.com/blog/index.php/10-traffic-stealing-weeds-that-suck-the-life-out-of-your-google-garden-and-how-to-yank-them/comment-page-1/#comment-1048 Paul Richlovsky Wed, 20 Feb 2008 17:32:11 +0000 http://www.fathomseo.com/blog/index.php/2008/02/18/10-traffic-stealing-weeds-that-suck-the-life-out-of-your-google-garden-and-how-to-yank-them/#comment-1048 Kurt, I especially appreciate the part about keeping low-value, low-traffic pages out of the index, because this seems to be an unknown good way to manage a site's link equity. Asking the question, "Is this page useful to search engine visitors?" should be a constant determiner for onsite SEO work. Another reason to weed those pages out, pointed out by Aaron Wall in a recent blog post, is that large websites' bandwidth can be taxed by the volume of spiders crawling them. Kurt, I especially appreciate the part about keeping low-value, low-traffic pages out of the index, because this seems to be an unknown good way to manage a site’s link equity. Asking the question, “Is this page useful to search engine visitors?” should be a constant determiner for onsite SEO work. Another reason to weed those pages out, pointed out by Aaron Wall in a recent blog post, is that large websites’ bandwidth can be taxed by the volume of spiders crawling them.

]]> By: Kurt Krejny http://www.fathomseo.com/blog/index.php/10-traffic-stealing-weeds-that-suck-the-life-out-of-your-google-garden-and-how-to-yank-them/comment-page-1/#comment-1047 Kurt Krejny Wed, 20 Feb 2008 16:51:28 +0000 http://www.fathomseo.com/blog/index.php/2008/02/18/10-traffic-stealing-weeds-that-suck-the-life-out-of-your-google-garden-and-how-to-yank-them/#comment-1047 Hi Geld, I counted the first 2 items as 4 (PDF, Office Docs, EPS, PS) and 10 sounded like a better number :) - good catch... I knew someone would notice that! Hi Geld, I counted the first 2 items as 4 (PDF, Office Docs, EPS, PS) and 10 sounded like a better number :) – good catch… I knew someone would notice that!

]]> By: internet marketing http://www.fathomseo.com/blog/index.php/10-traffic-stealing-weeds-that-suck-the-life-out-of-your-google-garden-and-how-to-yank-them/comment-page-1/#comment-1046 internet marketing Wed, 20 Feb 2008 11:45:33 +0000 http://www.fathomseo.com/blog/index.php/2008/02/18/10-traffic-stealing-weeds-that-suck-the-life-out-of-your-google-garden-and-how-to-yank-them/#comment-1046 Nice article. I like the no-follow sculpting tips. Nice article. I like the no-follow sculpting tips.

]]> By: Geld http://www.fathomseo.com/blog/index.php/10-traffic-stealing-weeds-that-suck-the-life-out-of-your-google-garden-and-how-to-yank-them/comment-page-1/#comment-1045 Geld Wed, 20 Feb 2008 10:34:50 +0000 http://www.fathomseo.com/blog/index.php/2008/02/18/10-traffic-stealing-weeds-that-suck-the-life-out-of-your-google-garden-and-how-to-yank-them/#comment-1045 Nice list, but I can't find out why you called it "10 Traffic-Stealing Weeds", instead of "8 Traffic-Stealing Weeds" :-) Nice list, but I can’t find out why you called it “10 Traffic-Stealing Weeds”, instead of “8 Traffic-Stealing Weeds” :-)

]]> By: Kyle http://www.fathomseo.com/blog/index.php/10-traffic-stealing-weeds-that-suck-the-life-out-of-your-google-garden-and-how-to-yank-them/comment-page-1/#comment-1044 Kyle Wed, 20 Feb 2008 09:15:23 +0000 http://www.fathomseo.com/blog/index.php/2008/02/18/10-traffic-stealing-weeds-that-suck-the-life-out-of-your-google-garden-and-how-to-yank-them/#comment-1044 Great article. I wonder about sculpting with no follow tags is it really worth the saved juice trying to manipulate page rank like that? Great article. I wonder about sculpting with no follow tags is it really worth the saved juice trying to manipulate page rank like that?

]]> By: Tinh http://www.fathomseo.com/blog/index.php/10-traffic-stealing-weeds-that-suck-the-life-out-of-your-google-garden-and-how-to-yank-them/comment-page-1/#comment-1043 Tinh Wed, 20 Feb 2008 05:34:08 +0000 http://www.fathomseo.com/blog/index.php/2008/02/18/10-traffic-stealing-weeds-that-suck-the-life-out-of-your-google-garden-and-how-to-yank-them/#comment-1043 Thanks, this is great list Thanks, this is great list

]]> By: Ken http://www.fathomseo.com/blog/index.php/10-traffic-stealing-weeds-that-suck-the-life-out-of-your-google-garden-and-how-to-yank-them/comment-page-1/#comment-1031 Ken Mon, 18 Feb 2008 19:46:38 +0000 http://www.fathomseo.com/blog/index.php/2008/02/18/10-traffic-stealing-weeds-that-suck-the-life-out-of-your-google-garden-and-how-to-yank-them/#comment-1031 Great set of tips Kurt. Thanks for the info. Great set of tips Kurt. Thanks for the info.

]]> By: Colleen http://www.fathomseo.com/blog/index.php/10-traffic-stealing-weeds-that-suck-the-life-out-of-your-google-garden-and-how-to-yank-them/comment-page-1/#comment-1030 Colleen Mon, 18 Feb 2008 19:22:45 +0000 http://www.fathomseo.com/blog/index.php/2008/02/18/10-traffic-stealing-weeds-that-suck-the-life-out-of-your-google-garden-and-how-to-yank-them/#comment-1030 WOW! Great tips. Some of these I never really thought of. WOW! Great tips. Some of these I never really thought of.

]]> By: Wes http://www.fathomseo.com/blog/index.php/10-traffic-stealing-weeds-that-suck-the-life-out-of-your-google-garden-and-how-to-yank-them/comment-page-1/#comment-1029 Wes Mon, 18 Feb 2008 19:05:28 +0000 http://www.fathomseo.com/blog/index.php/2008/02/18/10-traffic-stealing-weeds-that-suck-the-life-out-of-your-google-garden-and-how-to-yank-them/#comment-1029 Great Post! Lots of useful information. Time to go weed my Google garden. Great Post! Lots of useful information. Time to go weed my Google garden.

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