Posts Tagged ‘ranking’

Is Alexa show fake ranking?

May 21st, 2010

I read lot of places that alexa ranking is not true because alexa only count those visitors who are using alexa toolbar, and one of the trick to increase alexa ranking is to encourage you visitors to download alexa toolbar.

18th May is a day when facebook was blocked in Pakistan and some Muslim countries also boycott facebook. From that day i am checking facebook alexa rank time to time to see the boycott effect on facebook. But I am supprised because alexa is not showing true ranking. Still in Pakistan’s top websites facebook is ranked at number 3 even not a single Pakistan can visit the website through mobile as well.

This performance of alexa proved to me that we should not relying on alexa ranking when we are going to choice a website or blog for advertising.

Have a good day
Muhammad Ahmed

Google warns against comment spamming for ranking

November 26th, 2009

Many people have jumped on the bandwagon of comment spamming in an attempt to raise up their ranking in google and while the search engines are not fully capable to devaluing all the spam, they are working towards elimination of comment spamming and penalization of sites to which the links point to.

It might be the end of high pr blog commenting as people will see less and less value in these links and for people who have seen their sites penalized, they are asked to get rid of the spammed comments and request a reconsideration in GWT.

source: http://googlewebmastercentral.blogspot.com/2009/11/hard-facts-about-comment-spam.html

oes tsetnoc also facing daily lot of spam comments too, we hope this step of google help lot og bloggers to control comment spaming

Here are some tips suggested by google to avoid spamming:

Comments can be a really good source of information and an efficient way of engaging a site’s users in discussions. This valuable content should not be replaced by gibberish nonsense keywords and links. For this reason there are many ways of securing your application and disincentivizing spammers.

  • Disallow anonymous posting.
  • Use CAPTCHAs and other methods to prevent automated comment spamming.
  • Turn on comment moderation.
  • Use the “nofollow” attribute for links in the comment field.
  • Disallow hyperlinks in comments.
  • Block comment pages using robots.txt or meta tags.