robots txt to prevent crawling of freesites

[ponygirl]

Originally Posted by Halfdeck

I know LL owners like to get all the backlinks they can get their hands on (so would I), but you're forgetting one thing:

Duplicate content.

Getting linkbacks from supplemental pages is not going to do anyone any good.

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Not to mention low quality backlinks from free sites aren't going to make or break your ranking on Google (though MSN probably eats them up). In a few years, who knows, Google may ignore them altogether.

One way to look at recips is advertising your LL via increasing brand awareness. Approach them as means of inflating your SE position -- and you're in violation of Google guidelines.

Preventing duplicate content is a legitimate reason for disallowing mirrors, however. A large percentage of supps under a domain may negatively impact the entire domain.

I admit to knowing next to nothing about SEO, but I have heard lots about dup content...so I'll just say that I don't care if there is a nofollow for that reason. I'm not going to decline submits for that if someone really thinks it helps them with SEs - maybe it does what do I know

BUT make sure your meta tags don't say anything different, that's all.

now I know this was an honest mistake but it's a good opportunity for everyone to make sure they check the little details