Comments on: Attributes That Devalue a link in Google Algorithm

By: Money Market

Money Market — Fri, 27 Jul 2007 16:35:59 +0000

I don’t think Google is going to try and guess the importance of links based on class names – but there is evidence that adsense ads are affected by the keywords in classes:

“Back when I was using a ColdFusion blog system (before I changed over to WordPress), it used the word “blog” in nearly all the css classes. Hence, i ended up getting tons of blog-related adsense ads. I changed those classes to use my keywords instead, and boom!, i got related adsense ads.” – http://forums.seroundtable.com/showthread.php?t=658

By: Zainescu Traian

Zainescu Traian — Fri, 20 Jan 2006 12:49:34 +0000

I heard rumors that now google gives more value to the links surrounded by content related to the link title. Is this true?

By: tpiddy

tpiddy — Thu, 08 Sep 2005 18:28:51 +0000

do you think google reads the div/span class ids, and looks for terms such as left, right, side, etc?

By: Frakkle

Frakkle — Wed, 31 Aug 2005 13:08:57 +0000

SEOGirl – Exactly! Not much more to be saidâ€¦

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By: SEOGirl

SEOGirl — Tue, 30 Aug 2005 20:04:48 +0000

I couldn’t agree with Jesse more. It’s been a frustrating year and for this reason alone I decided that learnig a little black hat wasn’t such a bad gig after all.

By: Jesse

Jesse — Tue, 30 Aug 2005 18:49:07 +0000

I don’t agree with some of this. I am not sure if google deems all those links unimportant. This last year it has been frustrating as Google does just about everything it can to twist SEO work into a big guessing game.

By: Blackhat SEO » Links with less value - content text links

Blackhat SEO » Links with less value - content text links — Tue, 30 Aug 2005 10:32:47 +0000

[...] An interesting post by Quadszilla on his blog about Google valueing certain kinds of links less. Google is smarter than most people think. [...]

By: QuadsZilla

QuadsZilla — Tue, 30 Aug 2005 07:57:58 +0000

Thanks for the heads up: my original post was a little confusing. Not all divs and paragraphs are devalued, only ones with class types similar to the ones listed in the post.

I have amended the post in green to include an example of the tag class html I was referring to.

By: Tim Yang

Tim Yang — Tue, 30 Aug 2005 06:55:19 +0000

Waitaminute… all links in divs and paragraphs are devalued? But that would mean… shudder… Google loves table layouts! Gulp!

By: hermen shermen

hermen shermen — Tue, 30 Aug 2005 02:51:38 +0000

it’s not getting any easier is it?

but this is very interesting … i’ve actually been working on a directory model that instead of selling text links, charges more for a “page” on the company in particular … then charging a premium rate.