Link Tutorial http://www.linktutorial.com Your guide to links and linking Thu, 30 Nov 2006 02:26:58 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Link Tutorial Reloaded Link Tutorial was released in early 2005 and we've decided it's time for an update. What's new? The most obvious improvement we've made is the design and layout of Link Tutorial. Gone is the old design and we've gone with a more stylish, simplistic design. Not only does Link Tutorial look better, ... http://www.linktutorial.com/read/news/link-tutorial-reloaded Frames and iFrames Frames are used to divide web pages into multiple, scrollable regions or areas. Each region or area on a page are actual web pages themselves, with their own URL. Essentially, a page with frames is really a collection web pages displayed on one page. See an example of a web page ... http://www.linktutorial.com/read/articles/frames-and-iframes Detecting ‘rel=nofollow’ (FireFox) This guide can be used to detect the use of the attribute rel="nofollow" on Firefox browsers in any computer, whether it is on a PC, Linux or Macintosh computer. The rel="nofollow" attribute can be highlighted in your Firefox browser by adding one line to your userContent.css file. The userContent.css file ... http://www.linktutorial.com/read/articles/detecting-relnofollow-firefox Detecting ‘rel=nofollow’ (Safari) rel="nofollow", is a new attribute for the HTML tag <A> for links. This attribute can be detected in your Safari browser using the following javascript code as a bookmark. Please note that this javascript code only works for Macintosh computers using the Safari web browser. How to detect the attribute rel="nofollow" ... http://www.linktutorial.com/read/articles/detecting-relnofollow-safari Attribute ‘rel=nofollow’ rel="nofollow", is said to be the next biggest thing to be used by shady webmasters engaging in reciprocal link exchanges. This attribute was introduced by Google as a means to prevent the problem of comment spamming in weblogs, also called "Blogs", and it looks to be adopted by all other ... http://www.linktutorial.com/read/articles/attribute-relnofollow Orphaned Link Pages Orphaned pages are web pages that are not being referenced or linked to by another web page. Orphaned link pages are harder to detect than the other shady practices employed by some webmasters such as meta tags, javascript links, redirected links and robots.txt files. Impact of orphaned link pages on link ... http://www.linktutorial.com/read/articles/orphaned-link-pages Robots.txt and Link Exchanges Robots.txt files are used to instruct search engine robots on which areas of a web site they should not visit or index. For example, you can instruct robots not to view or index your image folder. This file can be used by shady webmasters to instruct search engine robots not to ... http://www.linktutorial.com/read/articles/robotstxt-and-link-exchanges Redirected Links Link popularity is tied to the URL of a web page. To build your web site's link popularity, you will need links pointing to the exact URL of your pages. Search engines typically will not pass on any weight to the landing page of a redirected link. In other words, a ... http://www.linktutorial.com/read/articles/redirected-links Javascript Links The use of links in javascript is usually to prevent search engine robots from spidering these links. Many search engine robots are not able to follow javascript links. This may mean that a link within javascript is not properly "seen" by the robots and therefore cannot be followed to your ... http://www.linktutorial.com/read/articles/javascript-links Meta Tags ‘NOINDEX,NOFOLLOW’ The meta tags are in the header of a web page, that is, between the <head> tags. There are some webmasters out there that use the meta tag <meta name="ROBOTS" content="NOINDEX,NOFOLLOW"> on their links page or directory. This means that search engine robots will not index (NOINDEX) or follow (NOFOLLOW) ... http://www.linktutorial.com/read/articles/meta-tags-noindexnofollow