Comments on: Is your vendor bleeding your page rank? http://www.b2bmarketingroi.com/2009/01/24/is-your-vendor-bleeding-your-page-rank/ Just another WordPress site Mon, 12 Sep 2011 18:26:41 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: Adam Blitzer http://www.b2bmarketingroi.com/2009/01/24/is-your-vendor-bleeding-your-page-rank/#comment-60 Adam Blitzer Sat, 24 Jan 2009 19:03:51 +0000 http://b2bmarketingroi.com/?p=214#comment-60 Hey Jep. I'm not going to out anyone but suffice it to say that none of the major analytics companies or agencies are doing this. How on earth would you explain this to your clients if they called you out on this? That would be an awkward conversation. If your tracking code (angle brackets replaces with # for purposes of this comment) includes something like what is below, you are pretty suspect: #noscript# #a href="http://www.vendors_domain.com/" target="_blank"# #img src="http://some_meaningless_image.jpg" alt="Vendor's Keyword" border="0"# #/a# #/noscript# I actually first noticed this when doing some inbound link analysis on several companies. One of them (much less well-known that the others) had 35,000 inbound links! Hilarious. What is sad is that Google does not yet seem to penalize for this. I have to imagine they will eventually. Best not to engage in any of this black hat shenanigans. Hey Jep. I’m not going to out anyone but suffice it to say that none of the major analytics companies or agencies are doing this. How on earth would you explain this to your clients if they called you out on this? That would be an awkward conversation.

If your tracking code (angle brackets replaces with # for purposes of this comment) includes something like what is below, you are pretty suspect:

#noscript#
#a href=”http://www.vendors_domain.com/” target=”_blank”#
#img src=”http://some_meaningless_image.jpg” alt=”Vendor’s Keyword” border=”0″#
#/a#
#/noscript#

I actually first noticed this when doing some inbound link analysis on several companies. One of them (much less well-known that the others) had 35,000 inbound links! Hilarious. What is sad is that Google does not yet seem to penalize for this. I have to imagine they will eventually. Best not to engage in any of this black hat shenanigans.

]]> By: Jep Castelein http://www.b2bmarketingroi.com/2009/01/24/is-your-vendor-bleeding-your-page-rank/#comment-59 Jep Castelein Sat, 24 Jan 2009 08:57:49 +0000 http://b2bmarketingroi.com/?p=214#comment-59 Care to share some names Adam? Anonymous gossip is so boring ;-) Care to share some names Adam? Anonymous gossip is so boring ;-)

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