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So AboutUs main page has Authority 5 and passes it down to subsequent internal pages which pass to our clients - Websites externally. That is why the Spammers come to drop links so they can get Google Juice from us for their spammy websites. But we need to distributes the Authority that Google assigns to us proportionally without passing it to porn sites, Malware sites, 404 sites, etc. The better the iteration and the less we leak authority to Spam the stronger we become and more authority we can pass to our clients. Hence, when someone will search for their domain name AboutUs article for that domain will come up high in the results. So besides attributing the PageTrust that Google assigns us to our clients we help ourselves by promoting our articles in the SERPs.

Recommendations edit

Use rel=nofollow edit

Category:Linkfarm, Category:NoBot, Category:OptOut, malware sites, Category:PossibleSpamSite, Category:For Sale, etc: When a Website is tagged appropriately with the template rel=nofollow will automatically be inserted by a software to the external links on these pages. (software update needs to be written)

  • Can we do this? Is it a priority? Kristina .talk. .chat. 07:23, 5 March 2008 (PST)
  • Last I heard we were talking about going to nofollow for almost all of our outbound links. If that happens, then these categories don't matter. If that doesn't happen, then we have to decide if it's worth the staff time it would talk to flag them. I think mostly we've stopped flagging them since December's change in focus. Not sure where we are now. TedErnst (talk) 10:56, 5 March 2008 (PST)

Possible Adult Content edit

Tagging as PossibleAdultContent is just as good as adding rel=nofollow because search engines can't get behind the splash page.

  • Putting the PossibleAdultContent category for PornWebsites is good for AboutUs and for our clients because instead giving our hard earned PageTrust to porn peddlers we give it to our good pages and subsequently to our clients who will find AboutUs articles next to their domain names in SE result pages and will in return come join us in editing AboutUs. (SplashPage preserves PageRank because there is no direct link but a form submit button, which does not pass Authority.)

illegal sites edit

get list and redirect to appropriate page.

Large Categories edit

  • Use {{LargeCategoryTOC}} on large categories. This links to each part of the list equally, thus distributing Google page authority and iteration for all our clients.
    • Let's add the navigation bar to every large category. This way Google will come in at a natural pace and we will keep helping Google raise our PageRank verses Google coming fast and furious, high spike up and then down again. Also to apply to all categories at once no good for the server load because of the high demand of Google indexing of AboutUs. It is best to chose a domain you follow and apply the template to the relevant categories.

Activate all categories edit

  • To improve search engine iteration make all categories for the article live link. That is get the red link categories blue by activating the category with a pseudo edit. The more relevant categories you have associated with an article, the better the search engine likes the article. What it means is good internal linkage! SEPRs like to crawl. Have Google live at AboutUs!
    • ((Substance of this paragraph is from User_talk:TedErnst). If "The more relevant categories you have associated with an article, the better the search engine likes the article," then why suggest that people reduce the number of categories if they have more than 30. See How to improve AboutUs website pages#Categories? -- Joe Cohen | Leave me a message 21:20, 24 January 2008 (PST)
      • Joe: 30 used to be the thought of number of links that search engines iterate per page but now a days, that number is probably 100 if not 200. The only reason to keep it at around 30 is relevance, and aesthetics. But by all means go for more. Igorberger 23:21, 24 January 2008 (PST)
      • I can go for it on one page, but more important:
  1. Consider changing How to improve AboutUs website pages#Categories to recommend no more than 100 relevant categories (and also including same guidelines as to what's "relevant").
  2. Consider having the bot put in more categories when it creates a page (and maybe having a bot review existing pages to add more categories).
  3. Consider improving aesthetics -- Can we change the way categories appear on a page to minimize the ugliness of having lots of categories? (What about putting the categories in a smaller font? What about a category cloud?) -- Joe Cohen | Leave me a message 12:35, 25 January 2008 (PST)
  • I think it's far from decided that AboutUs wants more categories on each page. This is a proposal so far, not a decision. Personally, I don't see any reason why anyone would need so many categories. By the way, the bot only puts categories on the page that are used as metatags by the site itself, so it's not very smart. And I don't anticipate it getting any smarter anytime soon. TedErnst (talk) 12:54, 25 January 2008 (PST)
  • I think 30 is about right and it does not look Spammy. We can add more categories manually and subtract irrelevant ones that were picked up by meta bot. Igorberger 13:02, 25 January 2008 (PST)
  • Guard AboutUs against Spam by contributing to Spam List. If we can dissuade the Spammers from stealing our PageAuthority we will be more WikiPedia:WP:Notable and more users will come to participate in building AboutUs.

We are a Folksonomy of the web edit

Categories in AboutUs are amazing. They are messy, confusing and wonderful all at the same time. The categories on our wiki website are initiated by bot and then we can edit them to make more or less. Think of our category system at AboutUs as version 1.0 of the system. Think active tagging as the version 2.0 - we should not spend so much time worrying about most of them (some we should). I love the ideas of making all categories active and adding the TOC to the larger ones. At a page level, I think that if an ActiveCommunityMember or a CommunityMember adds 100 categories to their page, we should talk to them to make sure it isn't purely an SEO play, but accept them. We need to figure out Tagging much better, but for now we have an amazing system. My two cents. ~~ MarkDilley

Questions edit

These two searches are rather curious:

The first shows that Oreilly.com is indexed by google, but the second shows that it doesn't appear in the top 100 results for a search that should find it. Why is that?

Nofollow edit

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