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5:16 am
January 28, 2011
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everydaytips
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I am sorry, but I have checked around and am wondering, how do I remove tags from my home page only? I am probably missing the obvious…
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8:41 am
January 28, 2011
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Khaleef @ KNS Financial
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everydaytips said:
I am sorry, but I have checked around and am wondering, how do I remove tags from my home page only? I am probably missing the obvious…
I think the idea is to not show tags in your sidebar – with either a widget or plugin. This way, they will only be seen when someone goes into a particular article.
Please correct me if I'm wrong.
Also, I believe that in the Thesis theme you are able to specify whether links to tags and/or categories would be nofollow or dofollow. I can't believe that an advertiser would care if you had an internal, nofollow link on your homepage.
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9:46 am
January 28, 2011
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Invest It Wisely
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KNS Financial said:
everydaytips said:
I am sorry, but I have checked around and am wondering, how do I remove tags from my home page only? I am probably missing the obvious…
I think the idea is to not show tags in your sidebar – with either a widget or plugin. This way, they will only be seen when someone goes into a particular article.
Please correct me if I'm wrong.
Also, I believe that in the Thesis theme you are able to specify whether links to tags and/or categories would be nofollow or dofollow. I can't believe that an advertiser would care if you had an internal, nofollow link on your homepage.
I still have the cloud and I always thought that was useful for the reader who would browse for particular topics, but the idea here seems to be that they're actually pretty useless?
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9:56 am
January 28, 2011
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JT_McGee
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You can shut off the tag clouds with a noindex in your robots.txt file. That way visitors can use them, but they won't be indexed by search engines (won't suck up your homepage Google Juice.)
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10:07 am
January 28, 2011
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Invest It Wisely
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JT_McGee said:
You can shut off the tag clouds with a noindex in your robots.txt file. That way visitors can use them, but they won't be indexed by search engines (won't suck up your homepage Google Juice.)
Hmm, I'll have to look into this. Doesn't the robots.txt control URL paths but not content? So, if I wanted the cloud itself not indexed then the links themselves would have to have a "noindex" property on them? Would that even affect the outgoing link calculus? I'm still very much a SEO newbie, haha…
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10:18 am
January 28, 2011
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SavingMentor
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Hey JT, you seem to know a lot about link juice and how to protect/preserve it. Would you be up to writing a mini post with a few tips that we could use to better manage our link juice?
I've heard you mention several things so far including:
- nofollow links (do you do this manually on every link?)
- noindex via the robots.txt file (can this be done in other ways too? when should it be done?)
- internal vs. external links and how they impact the flow of link juice
- lots of other stuff I can't remembe right now.
I don't know … just a set of concrete clear steps we could all take to better manage our SEO would be nice. Personally I'm most interested in steps we can take on our own sites to make improvements, not building backlinks and comments, etc. Although, that would be useful as well.
What do you say?
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10:20 am
January 28, 2011
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JT_McGee
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I'll put together something, and have it together by the weekend. But only after I get my homework done, of course. :P
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10:39 am
January 28, 2011
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Suba @ Wealth Informatics
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Invest It Wisely said:
JT_McGee said:
You can shut off the tag clouds with a noindex in your robots.txt file. That way visitors can use them, but they won't be indexed by search engines (won't suck up your homepage Google Juice.)
Hmm, I'll have to look into this. Doesn't the robots.txt control URL paths but not content? So, if I wanted the cloud itself not indexed then the links themselves would have to have a "noindex" property on them? Would that even affect the outgoing link calculus? I'm still very much a SEO newbie, haha…
If you have All in one SEO and I believe you do, all you have to
do is check the "noindex tag archives". It will take care of the rest.
If it is not indexed, I don't think you have add nofollow.
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10:44 am
January 28, 2011
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everydaytips
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KNS Financial said:
everydaytips said:
I am sorry, but I have checked around and am wondering, how do I remove tags from my home page only? I am probably missing the obvious…
I think the idea is to not show tags in your sidebar – with either a widget or plugin. This way, they will only be seen when someone goes into a particular article.
Please correct me if I'm wrong.
Also, I believe that in the Thesis theme you are able to specify whether links to tags and/or categories would be nofollow or dofollow. I can't believe that an advertiser would care if you had an internal, nofollow link on your homepage.
OK, I am so glad I am not crazy. I thought people were talking about removing the tags that show up on the bottom of each post from the home page and I could not figure out how to do that. The tag clouds are a totally different story. Thanks!
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10:48 am
January 28, 2011
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Suba @ Wealth Informatics
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Post edited 10:49 am – January 28, 2011 by Suba @ Wealth Informatics
KNS Financial said:
everydaytips said:
I am sorry, but I have checked around and am wondering, how do I remove tags from my home page only? I am probably missing the obvious…
I think the idea is to not show tags in your sidebar – with either a widget or plugin. This way, they will only be seen when someone goes into a particular article.
Please correct me if I'm wrong.
Also, I believe that in the Thesis theme you are able to specify whether links to tags and/or categories would be nofollow or dofollow. I can't believe that an advertiser would care if you had an internal, nofollow link on your homepage.
Khaleef, I believe Invest it Wisely was told that he had a lot of links (Kris was told the same I guess). And both of them have minimal external, Kris has moved her Blogroll and she doesn;t have a tag cloud as well. Most of the links came from social media plugin and categories/tags. I think what she want is, a way to remove her "tags" that show up under the posts on her home page. Am I right Kris?
I don't know if there a easy way (if there is, I didn't check properly). I have the tags displaying via conditional php. if home, ignore the tags, if single, show the tags. I can send you the php if you want, I have thesis, so you might have to see your theme help to see where it goes.
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12:12 pm
January 28, 2011
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SavingMentor
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JT_McGee said:
I'll put together something, and have it together by the weekend. But only after I get my homework done, of course. :P
Sorry if I sounded too demanding there! 
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12:23 pm
January 28, 2011
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everydaytips
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Suba, you got it exactly. I did move my blog roll and I never had a tag cloud. (Since my page rank is still 1, I have to do whatever I can to look more favorable to advertisers and such.)
If you could send me the php, that would be great!!
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1:08 pm
January 28, 2011
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JT_McGee
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SavingMentor said:
JT_McGee said:
I'll put together something, and have it together by the weekend. But only after I get my homework done, of course. :P
Sorry if I sounded too demanding there!
No, not at all. I LOVE talking about internet marketing…it isn't often that I get the chance.
I'll have to make this a section on my blog. I'm not too keen about "blogging about blogging," but I'll post it on a page, if nothing else.
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1:25 pm
January 28, 2011
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Suba @ Wealth Informatics
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everydaytips said:
Suba, you got it exactly. I did move my blog roll and I never had a tag cloud. (Since my page rank is still 1, I have to do whatever I can to look more favorable to advertisers and such.)
If you could send me the php, that would be great!!
Kris, I looked at your theme. Actually all you have to do is remove this part
<?php if( function_exists('the_tags') )
the_tags('<span class="posttags">'.__('Tagged', 'f2').' ', ', ', '</span>');
?>
from your index.php (Line #30). Your single.php already has the code to display the tags so it will display if the post is a single post, not a multipost page.
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1:44 pm
January 28, 2011
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everydaytips
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Suba, you are the best. I have been sick a few days and I am just not thinking as well as I normally would. I owe you one!
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7:17 am
January 29, 2011
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Frugal Confessions
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JT_McGee said:
I'll put together something, and have it together by the weekend. But only after I get my homework done, of course. :P
Hi JT! I would really appreciate that as well.
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7:18 am
January 29, 2011
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Frugal Confessions
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Suba @ Wealth Informatics said:
If you have All in one SEO and I believe you do, all you have to
do is check the "noindex tag archives". It will take care of the rest.
If it is not indexed, I don't think you have add nofollow.
Thanks for that info Suba!
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