Changing your URL structure is a big job – sometimes, it’s necessary, but don't do it just to make a minor SEO tweak

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I would like to start this post by admitting that I went against the NoFollow recommendedation in Danny Dover's excellent SEOmoz post "SEO Best Practices: SEOmoz's New Policies Based on Updated Correlation Data" I also flew somewhat against the wind being generated by Great Scott's great post "Whiteboard Friday - Matt Cutts on NoFollow" I can hear your thoughts beaming through the wonderful interweb; "What would cause someone to swim against the current, then emerge dripping wet and proceed head first down a NoFollow hole?" My reasons were a combination of intrigue, traffic-leaching-greed and Thursday evening boredome and they led me to begin my Wordpress "nofollow" experiment! On Thursday, Aug 6th I started using the SEOmoz Toolbar to check which links on my pages were tagged with the rel="nofollow" attribute.


The screenshot below shows a typical post from one of jordan mobile phone numbers database my blogs with the SEOmoz Toolbar set to "Show Nofollows"; Adventures in Nofollow I've highlighted (the red-dashed line rectangle) the only area of my post which was previously set to use NoFollow, they are all image links to social bookmarking sites and the nofollow attribute was set by that particular social bookmarking wordpress plugin, i.e. My NoFollow energy expended had been virtually zero up to this point! WARNING: The NoFollow changes that I made were implemented on a Wordpress blog using a modified version of the "Poetry" theme and as such may be useless for anyone not running a Wordpress blog.

I was excited to see Rand in person and he did not disappoint. You could tell he was humbled by how many people were in attendance and excited at how far SEOmoz has come in the last few years. He jumped right in with some great tips on building and designing content that will help “create an experience versus read and forget. Throughout the rest of the day we were engaged by all the speakers and their insights into how to be a better SEO.