Google Ads can work but you have to know what you are doing and it can cost a lot of money in the process.

I took a look at your website. Just be aware that the old days of adding lots of keywords doesn’t really work anymore. Google has gotten pretty smart these days and in fact when they see a lot of repetitive keywords they get a little suspicious. So when you have keywords like “lifestyle photography, events photography, corporate photography, architectural photography…” with the word “photography” repeated over and over it can cause you problems.

The best way to get ranked is by backlinking. You can be ranked for the keyword “photography” without even having that keyword on the page of your site. Of course it helps that the keyword is on the page but the on page SEO isn’t as important as the backlinks.
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Hi Paula and Wanda,

Thank you for this. I’m trying to get our company’s site up the ranks for search engine results – it seems to be increasingly difficult. With the ads at the top then Google Places, the very top of the ‘natural’ listings now are are the bottom of page one. Tough going. Our Web design guy insists the only way to get noticed these days is to pay for SEO and pay for GoogleAds. I don’t have extra money to line Google’s already-silken pockets! So, I shall keep learning and I have found your information so very useful, THANK YOU (a big thank you). I’ll be back for more tips…
Thanks and all the best, Polly Harrison, Matt Wain Photography
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Usually it is only the comments on blogs that are nofollow. The rest of the links on your site will most likely be dofollow. So you probably won’t need a plugin unless you want the comments section to be dofollow. The reason why the comments section is usually made nofollow is because people tend to spam sites with crappy comments just to get a back link.

I can’t believe I’ve been writing a blog using blogger and never realised that it was no follow. Is there a plug in I can download for blogger to allow the links to be followed? Also will the links I have already created in my blog become follow links after I use the plugin or is it for new content only after the plug in was installed? Thanks for your help in advance.

We haven’t done any posts about the Flexibility 3 theme as yet. Your best bet is to hang out at the Flexibility forum here:
http://www.flexibilitytheme.com/forum/

We add the ‘nofollow’ to each link. We use the TinyMCE Advanced plugin which allows us to do that a little easier than having to manually type it in each time. You can download it here:

http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/tinymce-advanced/

And you can read this post on how we add the nofollow using TinyMCE:

http://www.affiliateblogonline.com/2009/08/19/how-to-add-nofollow-to-affiliate-links-in-wordpress/

Hello Ladies,

Most helpful as always.
I actually have two questions.
1. In one of the comments you mention help with the flexiibiliy theme. Have you done a post with that as I recently got the flexibility3 theme and will use that instead of some other themes going forward but was hoping to see how to implement that.
2. For your amazon affiliate links on your reviews are those automatically no follow or do you have to add that bit of code to it?

Thanks in advance on both questions
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Yup! At least we won’t end up dribbling into our soup bowl in front of the TV in this business. It’s stagnate and starve!

The age of some of the latest generation of ‘gurus’ is a bit embarrassing to a bloke over 40…….can we ‘keep up’ I wonder…….
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You got that right Ian. The complexity associated with ranking in Google is pretty amazing really. Would love to know how it all works.

OK, thanks Paula. I had just wondered what your experiences were.

I have a site about a type of power saw which languished well off the first page. I added nofollow to all the aff. links and within a few days it was high up on the first page. Coincidence maybe? Who knows!

IM seems to be more of an art than a science, which is pretty ironical if you think about the technology that makes the web work!
Hope you’re having a great weekend!
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Yes we do use nofollow on affiliate links.

Google would still see those links but they just don’t give any pagerank juice to them.