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Read the full article → April 22, 2011In The Currency of Influence, I dispelled the social media myth that leaving comments on other people’s blogs would create backlinks to your blog. It doesn’t because most blogs have nofollow tags on their comments. A nofollow tag is equivalent to a stop sign for Google. When the bots run into one, they back up [...]
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Using Comments to Drive Traffic to Your Blog
April 22, 2011In The Currency of Influence, I dispelled the social media myth that leaving comments on other people’s blogs would create backlinks to your blog. It doesn’t because most blogs have nofollow tags on their comments. A nofollow tag is equivalent to a stop sign for Google. When the bots run into one, they back up [...]