http://www.businessofdesignonline.com/when-theres-no-dough-to-blow/ BoDo Business of Design online Thu, 17 May 2012 02:00:03 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.0.9 http://www.businessofdesignonline.com/when-theres-no-dough-to-blow/#comment-1525 Sat, 23 Jun 2007 14:53:49 +0000 http://www.businessofdesignonline.com/when-theres-no-dough-to-blow/#comment-1525 Some great advice and info. Be wary of submtting design articles to just any directory though. Make sure you get credit and an *active* link back to your site when anyone uses your submission. Many times folks will simply cut and paste your material, add it to their sites without credit or link-love. Also, make sure that the sites that are using your articles are not using 'no follow' tags on their links (many are - originally used to combat comment spam on blogs, it's now being used to hoard Page Rank. You can check by viewing the pages source code - by default Word Press and TypePad are now using no-follow tags on blog comments). If they are, the link is of no benefit (other than a few paltry click-throughs) and you *might* get penalized by Google for duplicate content. Some great advice and info. Be wary of submtting design articles to just any directory though. Make sure you get credit and an *active* link back to your site when anyone uses your submission. Many times folks will simply cut and paste your material, add it to their sites without credit or link-love. Also, make sure that the sites that are using your articles are not using ‘no follow’ tags on their links (many are - originally used to combat comment spam on blogs, it’s now being used to hoard Page Rank. You can check by viewing the pages source code - by default Word Press and TypePad are now using no-follow tags on blog comments). If they are, the link is of no benefit (other than a few paltry click-throughs) and you *might* get penalized by Google for duplicate content.

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