As I was going to write a follow up on my initial WidgetBucks post, I was surprised to find out that TechCrunch and Problogger ranking in the first and second places for the term “WidgetBucks”. Did someone at Google actually noticed that WidgetBucks was hiding links?
This definitely puts an interesting spin on things. It may be just one day episode where not all of the Google’s data centers indexed WidgetBucks, however it can very well be another John Chow case.
Now the question would be if Google would see WidgetBucks as a bad neighborhood and what about all bloggers linking to it?
But do you really think Google punished WidgetBucks for hidden links?
I searched for them by: site:www.widgetbucks.com and only a few results show, and their home page isnt one of them. Google certainly busted them for something.
I searched for them by: site:www.widgetbucks.com and only a few results show, and their home page isnt one of them. Google certainly busted them for something.
Brian, all those results appear to be in “flash”- very strange.
Brian, all those results appear to be in “flash”- very strange.
This is gold…
This is gold…
Just noticed this thread. Google has never had an issue with WidgetBucks, this is a simply miss on the website deployment where we did not properly instrument the site for crawling. So, this is not an issue of being taken off SERPs, this is an SEO/robots.txt oversight.
Thanks for stopping by to clarify. Hmmm, Why am I not surprised that Google has no problem with the hidden html link in the widget. One blogger out there has raised the question if we can add “nofollow” tag to that link?
Just noticed this thread. Google has never had an issue with WidgetBucks, this is a simply miss on the website deployment where we did not properly instrument the site for crawling. So, this is not an issue of being taken off SERPs, this is an SEO/robots.txt oversight.
Thanks for stopping by to clarify. Hmmm, Why am I not surprised that Google has no problem with the hidden html link in the widget. One blogger out there has raised the question if we can add “nofollow” tag to that link?