Nofollow; More On Link Condom & Blogger Worries Over Nofollow
blog.searchenginewatch.comDanny Sullivan casts his eye over the hullaballu about "nofollow" - finds a few jokes and concludes: "It now lets the search engines say to bloggers, we gave you want you wanted, stop blaming us for the problem!"
This could mean various things from the search engine POV:
The algos cannot be altered to deal with and filter out blog comment spam
They do not want to put such a filter in place...
The condom joke site is worth a click...
Stop the spread of Viral Link Skank today
"FEATURES.....
Hoard your PageRank
Hide your outgoing links
Screw your reciprocal link partners
Add code bloat to your page
Find out today if people are buying links for the right reasons
Yet more to obsess about
Freely link to bad neighbourhoods
Far easier to use than JavaScript, perl, php, robots.txt etc "
forums.searchenginewatch.com "I, Brian" posts a thorough review of the conversation about nofollow.
The last link in his list is pretty pessimistic
"The Spammers have Won: Andy Wismar points out that the blogosphere was created and defined using comments and trackbacks - and if the "nofollow" attribute is used, it effectively means the deconstruction and devaluation of the blogosphere."
posted by Jen @ 7:03 AM
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