Pixelrage.net » google penalty http://www.pixelrage.net Ramblings of An (At-Home) Internet Marketer Sat, 04 Feb 2012 04:07:17 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 Ouch: A Google -20 Penalty for WordPress Blogroll Links http://www.pixelrage.net/wordpress/ouch-a-google-20-penalty-for-wordpress-blogroll-links http://www.pixelrage.net/wordpress/ouch-a-google-20-penalty-for-wordpress-blogroll-links#comments Fri, 16 Oct 2009 20:49:45 +0000 Pixelrage http://www.pixelrage.net/?p=120 How painful. I’ve just noticed a nasty -20 overnight penalty for the new blogroll I’ve implemented, which lists all of the social networking sites I use. Now, “Pixelrage.net” appears somewhere at the end of page 3 for the keyword “Pixelrage.” Let that be a lesson: if you’re going to use the blogroll or link list features, make sure you download a plugin that will convert them to “nofollow.”

I’m going to chalk this up as stupidity on my part – I should have known that WordPress has left those links as “dofollow,” and I should have either coded in the rel=nofollow myself, or looked for the plugin. All I can do now is remedy this issue, ping, and hope for the best. I’m not even going to complain about how horribly boneheaded, stupid, ridiculous and careless WordPress was for not at least giving us a “nofollow” check box option for our blogroll.

If you’ve stumbled upon this post looking for a WordPress plugin that converts the blogroll to “nofollow” links, here you go.

I always tend to learn lessons the hard way, anyway :/

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