https://tahirhashmi.com/tags/seo/Recent content in SEO on Tahir HashmiHugoen-GBmail@tahirhashmi.com (Tahir Hashmi)mail@tahirhashmi.com (Tahir Hashmi)Mon, 29 Dec 2025 11:13:16 +0700https://tahirhashmi.com/posts/2010/08/24/beating-tripadvisor-seo/Tue, 24 Aug 2010 10:16:38 +0000mail@tahirhashmi.com (Tahir Hashmi)https://tahirhashmi.com/posts/2010/08/24/beating-tripadvisor-seo/<h3 id="the-problem">The Problem</h3> <p>Recently, I got a reference to <a href="http://www.thatagency.com/design-studio-blog/2010/03/why-hotels-should-stop-using-tripadvisors-rating-widget/" target="_blank" rel="noopener" >this article</a> from my Product Manager, regarding TripAdvisor badges and how they boost SEO. Their secret is a simple link that links deep into TripAdvisor website and makes your site a donor of link love to TripAdvisor. This is somewhat bad for hotel owners who might find that TripAdvisor trumps the search ranking for their brand name.</p> <p>The easy solution to prevent that from happening would be to slightly edit TA widget and use a <code>rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;</code> attribute in the anchor that links to TripAdvisor. The clever guys at TA, though, have a JavaScript check that disables the widget if you try to do this. Well, how about we turn their own trick on to them?</p>