Comments on: Deep Linking – SEO Tip Week 4

By: David

David — Tue, 06 Oct 2009 10:55:45 +0000

Deep linking just makes perfect sense, search engines index pages and not “websites” therefore you should treat each page of your website as an individual.

I only use deep linking stratagies with correct keyword rich anchor text and I ensure the on page seo is 100% relevant to the incoming links.

It works very well, and I get lots of keyword targeted traffic.

By: Hannah

Hannah — Mon, 01 Jun 2009 07:44:00 +0000

I agree, creating a large SEO campaign that focuses on a number of subtopics of your large site will definitely let you dominate those terms, but as always, you need to have a lot of content.

By: Steve

Steve — Mon, 25 May 2009 07:18:20 +0000

Deep linking gives the bigger sites more potential to dominate for a wider range of terms, but means more work in terms of seo.

By: Eric

Eric — Fri, 08 May 2009 08:42:39 +0000

That is correct. The people who make the bots aren’t stupid and have no clue about SEO. Infact, they are probably some of the best SEOists out there and will use everything at their disposal to promote their sites.

By: Jeff

Jeff — Thu, 09 Apr 2009 10:54:45 +0000

Don’t forget there are many, many search engines out there where nofollow is completely ignored. This is probably the main reason people still spam the hell out of blogs using bots etc.

By: Holly

Holly — Tue, 07 Apr 2009 10:16:05 +0000

Fact is nofollow still has value if the nofollowed link is a keyword relevant to the site its linking to. That’s why they still spam a lot. Its a good point that the only people who will care about this is the SEO companies, as this deep linking phenomena has been naturally occurring for donkeys.

By: Shell

Shell — Fri, 26 Jan 2007 23:20:48 +0000

David,
It would seem this is the next step. After all, the only people who would care about such a move are SEO companies. On the other hand “real” links are used to establish true popularity and Digg (and other social bookmarking) are a perfect indicator. It would be a shame if this happens.

Of course, most people won’t realize the nofollow was put into effect and still spam the Diggs of the world, just as I am sure wikopedia will continue to receive spam even though the nofollow is in effect.

If I were a betting man I would say this will happen this year and all social bookmarking sites will follow suit. Too bad, but it seems unethical SEO companies have coruppted another useful tool on the web.

By: David Taboada

David Taboada — Fri, 26 Jan 2007 21:12:54 +0000

I understand that Digg and the other social bookmarking services people use help with deep linking, so I assume this is becoming an important SEO issue.

So I would like to ask if you think these services will follow Wikipedia’s NOFOLLOW policy?

And also, if you know of research on the behaviour of social bookmarking?