“I mean who the heck want to make their login page has PR 7?”

Everything else is completely wrong.

Nofollow deletes the link benefit, so your example doesn’t save the link benefit for the home page, it is gone. You would be better off having a PR7 login page that links to other parts of your site (recycling some of the link benefit) than nofollowing links to your login page.

Better yet use the Stallion Theme and/or the Stallion Plugin and the vast majority of parts of WordPress you wouldn’t want to waste link benefit on are covered. For example the author link you added to your comment isn’t a text link, it’s a button styled to look like a text link, view source and you’ll see no text link to your website, didn’t have to use nofollow and didn’t waste my link benefit linking to a commenter’s site. As the main admin to this site my author name links are text links, I can also add dofollow links (another Stallion theme feature) : SEO Test Results – Nofollow Links Passing Anchor Text Benefit.

Note if the link above did have a nofollow rel attribute (I could add one like this link SEO Tutorial or turn a Stallion setting on to add one automatically) the Stallion Theme would have converted it to a javascript link (another Stallion Theme feature).

Although there’s been examples of nofollow links anchor text being indexed (done the SEO tests** myself and found that), as a general rule nofollow links don’t exist to Google beyond deleting the link benefit they would have passed.

Go here http://www.seo-gold.com/seo-gold-goes-wordpress.html (note this link isn’t hyperlinked, another Stallion Theme feature preventing WordPress adding a nofollow link) check the first comment, there is a nofollow link test with a unique word as anchor text. Google isn’t supposed to index the anchor text of nofollow links, but if you search for that made up word that page (only that page and the link is over 1 year old) is indexed in Google. This confirms two things.

1. Google isn’t perfect or they changed the way nofollow works again and they treat nofollow anchor text as standard body text currently.

2. Although the anchor text is indexed on the page the link is on, it isn’t passing any anchor text benefit to the page it’s linking to.

Point 2 is the most important one, many webmasters add comments to blogs etc…. and many are nofollow now, the anchor text of the nofollow links are passing no SEO benefit back to the page being linked to. All you are doing is damaging the site the nofollow link is on, each link deletes a fair share of link benefit.

Do the research, I’m not the only SEO expert who does SEO tests, it’s all out there to find.

David

And why we should not uses nofollow? I mean who the heck want to make their login page has PR 7? By having several nofollow link, from our homepage to some of our unimportant internal page, at least we keep the link juice to homepage.

(Illustration: homepage with 10 link juice links to 10 pages, 5 nofollowed, thus only passing 5 link juice to 5 followed page, thus keeping 5 link juice to the page itself, thus it ranks higher.)

No?

Cara

The Stallion SEO Posts widget has the option to use a combination of images and text links, but you don’t have to use both at the same time (I will though).

The widget is also linked into the Stallion All In One SEO Plugin so you don’t have to use identical alt and anchor text, it’s why I added the ability to have different alt and anchor text so it can be different.

That being said if you haven’t got around to adding keyword phrases for the posts or you don’t want to it’s not going to cause SEO damage per se having an identical image and text link next to one another.

The biggest SEO issue for all non-main content (content within sidebars etc…) is the SEO impact on the main content. In a perfect world ALL non-main content should support the main content SEO wise, so if the main content is about Swimming with Dolphins, ideally the non-main content would be related to swimming or with dolphins or something similar. Few sites are that highly niched so what you add will have a negative impact on the main content SERPs of some posts more than others. That leads to not adding unrelated content to sidebars etc… but if you don’t add unrelated non-main content on many sites some posts wouldn’t be linked to, so it’s a balance between the main content of a page and the links etc… to other pages.

Would be great to have a search feature that could search and link directly to comments, I’ve looked for relevant plugins, but closest I found would search the comments text as well, but still linked to the top of the post. Pretty much useless for sites with a lot of comments, is there much to gain knowing one of the 50 comments uses a phrase if the search result doesn’t link directly to the comment.

And yes I’m hoping chaos could equal more stickiness, time will tell if having a lot more images will result in visitors visiting more posts on a site.

David

My question is will this double repeating of keywords be a negative? Would it be better to have either a ‘link title’ or a ‘alt tag’ but not both next to each other?

Too bad there is no way to have a synonym database that would mix keywords up so it they are not over used.

Also I have just deployed two SEO Stallion posts widgets on my main blog with like 10 posts on each. I hope it does not dilute the landing page post focus with too many sidebar items, I like widgets as it gives people more chances to click and stay on site.

Widgets everyhere with images, in some ways it is more chaotic but I have a feeling a little chaos is good as people click visually around as long as they ultimately get what they want.

I believe website ‘stickiness’ is the ultimate SEO factor.

I had a zero widget site and it did not do well.

About the tutorials you can not do everything all the time, hats off to you. I wish the onsite search box would function more intelligently as many of the questions have been asked before.

The random thumbnail feature is similar to the random banner image feature, only difference is there’s two sets of images 100px by 100px and 200px by 200px. The 100px images are used by widgets and the 200px images used for thumbnails within archives. Both versions are hooked into Timthumb.php so bandwith usage is minimized, which is why the Stallion cache folder (/wp-content/themes/stallion-seo-theme/cache/) is so important to have the correct permissions set otherwise Timthumb can’t create the smaller thumbnails.

With regards permissions 777 is a potential security issue, always start with the minimum permissions needed and work your way up, on some servers 755 is enough, others 775 and what should work (as last resort) with all 777.

I have sites on the same server where 755 works and others 775 (never needed 777), probably a case of building the sites on different servers years ago and some settings being inherited as I used a backup to move a domain from an old server to a new server.

David

Your SEO Posts is eons better. Not just saying that. However, to modify the widget so you get custom icons for the posts you need to:

go to -> /wp-content/themes/stallion-seo-theme/thumbnails/
There are size 100 and 200 image folders for custom images.

On another note(not related to popular posts), to use the Auto thumbnails or featured slide show you need to know HOW to set /cache/ permission for folder to be 777.

You need to go: -> in your FTP to the folder /cache/ and right-click and under properties you can do this.

Seems obvious if you know what all this is about, but for new people it might sound scary.

I plan to update the Stallion Contextual Related Posts Plugin and incorporate the new random thumbnails feature into it, basically rather than have the blinking cartoon a random thumbnail is used. Will also link it in with the Stallion All In One SEO Plugin code so it uses the keyword phrases etc… I might try to incorporate the plugin directly into Stallion so no need to install a stand alone plugin.

I’m dropping using the Most Popular Posts Plugin because the Stallion SEO Posts widget does the same thing, but MUCH better.

I’ve got the Stallion SEO Posts widget running on the right sidebar menu item “Stallion Popular Articles”. Popular posts organised by comment count with thumbnails and excerpt, plus incorporated into the Stallion All In One SEO code (keyword phrases etc…).

The Stallion SEO Posts widget is awesome, I’m using it twice on this site the popular articles widget and in the first footer widget area the “Latest Stallion Articles”.

Can also create recently modified, alphabetical, random and by ID with the option to reverse the order.

If you look at most widgets you are lucky to have the option to enable the widget for either one category or exclude from one category, there’s no easy to use (AKA dropdown menu or tick boxes) WordPress default way to select multiple categories to enable/exclude a widget. Took ages to track down code that would work, but I found some and this is a highly unique feature rich widget.

I expect I’ll average three menu items per site for the Stallion SEO Posts widget when I get the time to update all my sites, it really adds a lot of colour via images to the sidebars. In future updates I’ll add more random thumbnail sets as well, so for those who don’t add featured images to posts there will be more thumbnail choices.

In the next Stallion update I plan to add title element (title tag) support for the Yoast WordPress SEO Plugin, although I don’t use it or recommend it’s use, some Stallion theme users do use it, so makes sense to use the Yoast WordPress SEO plugins title tags for anchor text etc…. when available.

David

Most are not SEOed well and some made my site sluggish and a few had errors and other become obsolete with new WP versions. Using Stallion I cut my list to a smaller universe. My theory is always try to work within a theme, with as little modifications as possible as less change of conflict.

Akismet
Contextual Related Posts SEO Version (for me one of the most important plugins)
Google XML Sitemaps (some would argue not needed)
Jetpack Lite (replaces WP Stats without having to install a much larger Jetpack (ironic name)
Most Popular Posts (useful widget)
Stallion WordPress SEO Plugin (see above)
WP-DBManager (backups, cleaning old tables left from trying too many plugins)
WP-Super Cache (faster site)
WP-Polls (not needed but fun on the right site)

Stallion 7.0 has worked well so far so good. Lots of options to toy with and experiment, will be playing with these like a new computer game.

The stand alone Stallion WordPress SEO Plugin does one thing, adds canonical URLs to archives etc… you want on the site (so visitors can visit them), but you don’t want search engines to indexed (dated archives for example), but do want the SEO benefit to be recycled (canonical URLs are like 301 redirects without the browser redirect).

The Built In Stallion All In One SEO Plugin currently doesn’t cover the above feature. I’ll probably incorporate the Stallion WordPress SEO Plugin canonical feature into the Stallion Theme in the next update.

The Built In Stallion All In One SEO Plugin is based on the popular All In One SEO Pack Plugin and includes the SEO damaging noindex features (with warnings) that the Stallion WordPress SEO Plugin was created to replace.

If I wasn’t trying to keep legacy support for All In One SEO Pack Plugin users (the original All In One SEO data works with Stallion) I’d have removed the noindex options and replaced them with the canonical options.

If I could click my fingers and combine the features I’d have the canonical URLs options added to the Built In Stallion All In One SEO Plugin options page so both versions are available. Going to be fun mashing that code together

If you’ve been playing around with stallion 7.0 you’ll see there’s a lot of new toys to play with, takes a LOT of effort to get the code to work together under most scenarios. I thoroughly tested the new code, but can’t account for every server setup, I’ve not experienced the blank screen after activating the built In Stallion All In One SEO code.

The original All In One SEO code was awful, if it wasn’t for the user base (most used WordPress plugin) I’d have not used it as a base for Stallion. Took a LOT of time to remove PHP warnings and notices and to understand why some of the code existed, had some weird stuff going on like having to save settings after activation even though it didn’t do anything. Seemed like the developer was forcing it’s users to the plugins option page so they had to see all the ads etc… (I removed all the ads from my code).

David

Regarding the Stallion WP SEO plugin installation – What I did was:
1) under SEO Advanced options ‘turned Stallion All in One SEO on
2) went to ‘Stallion All in One SEO Built In Plugin Options’ and updated the database (it went to a blank screen and I freaked out for a second) – hit the back button and everything seems fine.
3) I enabled the plugin/ choose the default settings.

Everything looks good to go and agreed it is a major improvement on the orignal plugin.