Comments on: Black Hole SEO

By: The Law of Unintended Consequences and No-Follow | Marketing Ninja

The Law of Unintended Consequences and No-Follow | Marketing Ninja — Sat, 07 Mar 2009 18:00:01 +0000

[...] First, let’s learn about how nofollow inadvertently creates “SEO blackholes” which end up favoring less accurate mega-sites like About.com, Answers.com, and WikiPedia instead of more accurate, more detailed niche sites. From SEO Blackhat: Black Hole SEO employs a technique that causes the normal laws of Google Physics to break down. Link juice flows into a massive body, but can never escape. When employed on a massive body, it tends to dominate the SERPs. [...]

By: Law Firm Web Strategy : The Problem with Twitter

Law Firm Web Strategy : The Problem with Twitter — Tue, 23 Dec 2008 23:42:23 +0000

[...] Unfortunately, that’s not the way the ‘nofollow’ attribute or link popularity was intended to work. Link popularity is supposed to reward quality content & the people who create it. Similarly, the ‘no follow’ attribute was created to prevent blog comment spam. But now combined, these two features are used by the big social networks to create black hole’s of link value. Draw you’re own conclusions here, but either way, the loss of publishing control puts the content creator at a disadvantage. At the whim of a third party, who may delete your account at a moment’s notice, and without recourse. [...]

By: Dotless Domain » Blog Archive » dotlessdomain.com - Black Hole SEO

Dotless Domain » Blog Archive » dotlessdomain.com - Black Hole SEO — Mon, 10 Nov 2008 07:30:54 +0000

[...] Increasingly, top-tier sites are becoming cagey about linking out. They are more than happy to be linked to, of course, but often the favor is not reciprocated. Check out this post by SEOBlackhat. [...]

By: arealabs

arealabs — Thu, 23 Oct 2008 08:11:13 +0000

small object tend to travel towards bigger ones

By: Open Discussion: Are Mini Niche Websites Dying? – Business Online Matters

Open Discussion: Are Mini Niche Websites Dying? – Business Online Matters — Wed, 17 Sep 2008 08:30:40 +0000

[...] Last week I came across an interesting post on the SEO Black Hat blog that talked about black holes. No, not the astronomy ones, but the SEO ones! Quoting the article: Black Hole SEO employs a technique that causes the normal laws of Google Physics to break down. Link juice flows into a massive body, but can never escape. When employed on a massive body, it tends to dominate the SERPs. [...]

By: Google Trusts Online Business Authority | Hobo

Google Trusts Online Business Authority | Hobo — Wed, 17 Sep 2008 07:33:17 +0000

[...] How do you take advantage of being an online business authority? Either you turn the site into a SEO Black Hole (only for the very biggest brands) or you pump out information – like all the time. On any subject. [...]

By: To NoFollow or To NoIndex That is the Question | SEO Blog | Search and Social

Wed, 17 Sep 2008 04:25:32 +0000

[...] Some industry types have been talking about a concept called black hole seo, which is basically the process of putting a cap on all outbound links from your site in order to cap all of your link equity. [...]

By: Los agujeros negros de internet

Los agujeros negros de internet — Tue, 16 Sep 2008 08:57:07 +0000

[...] Este tema no es nuevo, sin embargo parece que es ahora cuando todo el mundo le está haciendo caso, a raíz de este post y de mucho background a lo largo del tiempo. [...]

By: No-Follow: Linkjuice vs. schwarze Löcher | Michael Friedrich | life is a beach

Mon, 15 Sep 2008 20:32:57 +0000

[...] Das Phänomen bezeichnen SEO Black Hat und SEO Book als “Black Hole SEO”, also als Schwarzes SEO-Loch. Das Sinnbild erklärt sich leicht, schlucken doch dermaßen veranlagte Sites wie The New York Times alle von außen kommende Linkpower und geben nichts davon wieder her. Damit werden sie immer größer, bis sie schließlich … doch so weit wollen wir jetzt erst einmal nicht denken. [...]

By: Roll Your Own Black Hole

Roll Your Own Black Hole — Thu, 11 Sep 2008 07:17:08 +0000

[...] As promised, today we’ll go over some more of the trends in Black holes and what steps you can take to create or take advantage of their growing dominance in the SERPs. « Black Hole SEO [...]