Tinara

This is not true. You obviously don't know about 'nofollow'?? Of course you do. You can conquer the infamous 'nofollow' scare tactic by a simple custom script or plugin in a matter of an hour or two. OR, you can stick with the norm, which is not to be so obsessed with what the google-machine tells you, and rely on generating a broader traffic scope. Outbound has been around since the inception of the net. Big G-Man is simply preaching to you about the adult business, which is now a good practice but still not implemented in the slightest across the board. Many still ignore it, and still retain their SE ranking.

When Mr. Bigshot from the G-Machine gave his advice on the last 2 updates, it was geared specifically to the adult side, so everyone panicked, and now don't want to be a site with nothing but outbound affiliate links. (btw, this was advice during the lecture too). So we just wrote a simple script and nofollowed everything. This would include links to even mainstream sites. This is simply used so that the cute little computer god (Mr. AL) can visit you & can then judge your site on content, and not just a huge link dump like sites used to be years ago. RSS does not apply if you want to apply a nofollow rule to those outbounds too. So what? The RSS survivors that I mention above, are well written, and attended to properly and carefully with regard to best practice (and therefore, we don't mind giving them the yummy juice that they deserve.), unlike badly written feeds - no matter what kind of feed they decide to use. Having 'some' affiliate links is a good thing. The bulk of mainstream is fine with it too. Think Amazon. Is a plumber's site with a few outbound affiliate links to plumbing supplies going to be penalized by the Goog. No. Is a writer's book site with some outbound links to Barnes & Noble to a shit ton of cool books going to be penalized by the G-Machine? No. He might have 50! outbound affiliate links, no direct outbound, all anchored wrong, with only a 2000 word count site. Is he penalized? No.

And when you speak plural engines above, you might just mean singular engine, namely Google. Don't put MicroYahoo into that equation, because they are a different monster altogether with old school algorithms. Moreover, RSS is output differently if you would view source to see. Especially when it's applied correctly (in a CMS e.g.) Have you thought of that?

RSS is still used in mainstream media & news agencies around the world, and you're gonna post that one would get penalized? For RSS? Less than 10% of the online population is on twitter, yet everyone thinks the world is on it. This is not true in the slightest, and yet 90-95% of all sports, news, blogs, software, financial institutional sites around the globe still process/trade information via feeds. Especially in the financial sector. Are they penalized too? No. Is this 'duplicate' content. Yes. But not. Because it's distinguishable as RSS. A trading/share 'source' of information.

Algorithms distinguish between 'duplicate' content and feeds. They are apples & oranges. If you steal my site by duplicating it. I shut you down at the ISP level. On the other hand, if you RSS my site through appropriate means and method, you 'stream' my informational source, you do not get penalized for that. It's a feed of information, common for professional mainstream bloggers since way back. In 2005, I used to stream 5-6 girls through my site, it was no big deal, and great for content. I think you are mistaking the meaning of 'duplicate' content here, versus 'copying' content - which is distinguishable by Mr. AL Gore Rhythm.

And re: anchor text, you said above, "'usually' no decent anchor text." We don't incorporate anchor text any longer. Anchor text is dead and bad, bad, bad, like mom's telling you to eat your vegetables when you were a kid. And the almighty king Mr. G says it's a no no now too. So what do you mean by this? Unless you are living two years ago without any new information? ALL mainstream sports, news, software sites have moved away from it as well for the most part. When you say, decent anchor text. What?? Plain & simple, you should never follow the now infamous "word on top of the word" rule. Let's use, for example, a site, iamastupididiot. This should not anchor to IM A STUPID IDIOT. No. Those days are over. And Mr. G-Lecture guy made that known. AND he was directly talking to the adult industry. Instead, the site, iamastupididiot should now anchor to something different, like, BECAUSE I SUCK MY MOMS ASSJUICE. This way, they are distinguishable. So, e.g., if this domain was available, you can purchase it and only utilize that particular anchor text to promote it. And not just, I AM A STUPID IDIOT. Because that would get you penissized. And would page rank the site at just a 2 at most. Better to anchor it to 'BECAUSE I SUCK MY MOMS ASSJUICE'. This would better suit the needs of the vrooom vrooom engines you mention above.

It's not fair to scare newcomers into believing something that you have not fully investigated, or maybe don't know too much about and were just ass uming.

I get that. Really, I do.

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