I just got my Search Day newsletter and in it was a link to an article about the No Google Tag and I was wondering what everyones thought is on this. The article is a good read and I'm curious if anyone has considered using this in their own sites or blogs and what your take is regarding this actually hurting G and the other SE's.
OK I read the article linked in the first post, but to me it seems like people are seeing something I'm not. Everyone is saying that this will kill blogs. WTF? From what I see this new link attribute, "rel=nofollow" is supposed to be implemented into links that you don't want SEs to give your "vote" to, right? OK so it will cut down on popularity of blog commenting soley for links right? Because blogger and the like will make all blog comment links have this new link attribute in them right? And sites can use it to link to bad sites for examples, but without the SEs thinking it is a "vote" link. I don't see the abuse part of it.
There's lots going on about this at www.seroundtable.com I think it's a pretty great idea. The comment spammers just need to get the message. It won't kill blogs. Blogs link to each other and to other content. Comment spammers kill blogs. Many MT blogs already run comment links through a redirect so no PR is passed. This is just another measure to discourage comment spamming.
The abuse comes in from those that use the rel=nofollow tag in reciprocal links. So they get the benefit but don't pass it back.
It's not even implemented. I prefer to blocking the spam comments, even Google doesn't cache the comments, will you keep the spams?
I hadn't seen this thread otherwise I wouldn't have started this one. I just never would have found it by the title.
http://www.google.com/googleblog/ read the article. Looks like a lot of people have wasted a lot of time. LOL glad to see Google cracking down.
It's not a permanent solution. It's not really even a solution. How many people do you think will actually update their blogs to take this into account? I'd imagine it would be a fairly low percentage. Now the guys who don't implement the changes will just be inundated with even more crap. Besides, you don't think that comment spammers will stop posting just because of the nofollow attribute do you? They'll still be spamming, they just won't get any SEO benefit from the blogs that have been updated.
For those of you using vBulletin - I have explained how to hack your vb forum to use the nofollow command. See: How to use google's new "nofollow" condition in vbulletin -
The big blogging portals like blogger and MT will just add it to their system and it will update everyones blog on those systems.
That wouldn't work with MT. Or WP. Those blogs would need to download updates in order to take advantage of this.
aha...that brings me to the question i wanted to ask...if i "no-follow" my affiliate links, i can give more PR to those who deserve it ie:the customers who pay to advertise. (sorry, my biggie for posting my hyperlink question in the link development forum, i should have known it belonged in the google forum with the others)
mopacfan, this is another thread discussing the nofollow attribute with regards to the coop network: http://forums.digitalpoint.com/showthread.php?t=8223
Has anyone thought about how the nofollow attribute might benefit their site? Maybe (off the top of my head here), if SE's see you get a lot of links with the "nofollow" attribute, it might be seen as a benefit - that they are voting for your site without your "knowledge" ie - why would anyone pay for a link without benefit? That somehow this information is cataloged (how many nofollow's you have) and your site gets a boost cuz you are getting links thru 1-not exchanging, 2-not buying, 3-not asking. So your site is actually better cuz of "nofollows" Anyone think that makes sense at all? Or at least something to think about?
Maybe they'll promote it's use by giving you a little boost if your pages contain links with a nofollow attribute....
I've used rel=nofollow in my portfolio pages when linking to sites that I've designed because I have my links on those sites and I'd rather have them appear as one-ways.