Comments on: How to spam the hell out of Google’s new source attribution meta elements

By: Warner Carter

Warner Carter — Wed, 08 Dec 2010 20:17:53 +0000

I am wondering if this tag would help an original article on a website or a blog post. Would Google see it as spam if I used that meta for an original blog post I placed in article directories, guest posts or on a Squidoo Lens? It seems to me with this tag I could have a link while showing a page that has no anchor text or get a link from an otherwise nofollow placement, but might get slapped for doing so.

[Nope, wouldn’t help. That’s for Google News only. Sebastian]

By: SEO Book.com

SEO Book.com — Wed, 01 Dec 2010 18:18:26 +0000

… Recently Google created a news source attribution tag. If it works, it might be a good idea. But (even outside of spam) there are ways it can backfire. …

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By: Sebastian

Sebastian — Thu, 18 Nov 2010 09:07:12 +0000

I don’t know whether the GoogleNews indexer will process misplaced meta elements or not. I wouldn’t recommend it, though. I assume that the News thingy can create a graph with page level metadata with ease.

You can always use the CITE attribute in Q (…) elements to credit a particular quote, although as of today SE support of CITE is, well, not really existent. That’ll change.

By: SEO Freak Show

SEO Freak Show — Thu, 18 Nov 2010 08:11:21 +0000

I have a feeling we will see a ton of abuse on the new meta - followed by a whole bunch of crying newbies that don’t understand the levels of risk. Especially since the newest craze is ’so called gurus’ promoting the hell outta get-it-while-its-hot rank on page 1 in under 3 minutes Google News products. The good news is that $497 is a little steep for most, but thats what torrents are for.

By: Andy Beard

Andy Beard — Thu, 18 Nov 2010 06:14:09 +0000

It would have made much more sense if they had added a way to just use a data attribute with cite or blockquote.

That also then allows analysis at a block level.

Can you get away with using these meta elements within the body? I know that might not validate, but it can work with redirects and have a purpose (such as firing a pixel)

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SearchCap: The Day In Search, November 17, 2010 — Wed, 17 Nov 2010 16:14:18 +0000

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By: SERPD

SERPD — Wed, 17 Nov 2010 05:51:48 +0000

How to spam the hell out of Google’s new source attribution meta elements…

Sebastian had his (as always) side door approach and thoughts on the new Google (News) meta tags. Fun ride as always….