We're using it in our forum now. Anything to try and discourage the spammers. Mind you, we keep it pretty well under control anyway. Not sure whether it's going to really have much of an impact. Spammers don't ONLY spam for search engine benefits for their site. There is also benefit in having a link to your site on a high ranking page, just for the clickthroughs.
Same here, just added it to my forums. Don't know if it will help matters any, but figure it can't hurt anything but competing sites.
I am using it on my website, but only on My Guestbook 'cos users can create links themselves on that page. I am not using it in the links directory, of course
It's another thing to watch out for in link swaps now! Has anyone come across any potential link partners using this tactic?
Not yet. I am using an edited version of the "Reciprocal Link Checker" that Shawn created. But, I am looking at changing it so it checked for the nofollow tag as well. I believe some people might try sneaking in one of these tags while exchanging links (or after). I do get the odd link exchange request from sites using frames in ways to block the bot from getting to the links, but they are way easier to spot than the nofollow.
I never use it..... I don't spend any time seeking users of it out - I'm sure I'm getting screwed by that somewhere or another.... Sucks though... Well - I suspect, that it could be possible for that to be a flag right? Where does the actuall command reside? If I were a SE - If I found that on a page - it would tell me one thing.... The site owner is well aware of seo....
Possibly, but hard to do for SE. Well maybe if all the links out on your web would be nofollow, than it might be the case. At the moment I think it only tells the SE that you might be using a software that implements the nofollow tag and actually supports SE's efforts against spammers.
I've implemented for links out to sites such as adobe. They don't need what little bit of pr I have! Ian
What do you mean? You don't give up your pr to other sites. If you're talking about "pr bleed" or "link leakage" it doesn't exist. The nofollow tag is just to prevent any voting for other sites through links. You cannot give away your pr by having outgoing links from your site.
I thought, obviously incorrectly, that pr was gained from IBLs from higher ranking sites but that it was also passed on to other sites. Still a relative newbie but quick on the uptake. Ian
Actually, you are correct. Outbound links INDIRECTLY lower your pagerank because less pagerank gets passed on through other internal links. For a one page site, it theoretically should make no difference but for a multiple-page site, yes, it does indirectly influence your pagerank. I might add, however, that simply trying to cut all pagerank loss might be a bad idea. I myself am using it for any links that users can place themselves, but I never do reciprocal linking so "cheating" link partners obviously isn't something I do or recommend...
Eh? The more people you link to, the less powerful your outbound link power is. You don't "lose" PR, no, but if you've got a content site you'll want to have your articles ranking well, which means you don't want to have too many outbound links.
No, very short sighted. Linking to good sites actually helps. It is also selfish in my eyes. if you benefit from incoming links like at this forum, you should give something to someone, unless it is linking to a spam site or a bad neighbohood. Google does not like "closed sites". Why do you think directory pages often rank so well when they have so many outgoing links? The only thing it does is prevent you from being penalized for linking to bad neighborhoods. The whole PR game is not important and will hurt you when you focus on it too much.
I added no follow to this directory: www.homeless.org.au/directory/ pretty much because I was curious to see if having that directory gave us a hilltop type authority boost and if the boost would be taken away by adding nofollows. result = no change in serps. Not the most definitative test but wanted to play around with it. There is no real reason to use nofollow, unless it's auto added to links site users can input into your site / blog IMO. Thats what it was enabled for, use it for that. I should probably take em out of our directory one day as I'm sure if the content is only controlled by the site publisher and includes nofollow it will just be for some percieved or real seo boost and those pages may be downgraded by the search engines in some way. If a site is worth referencing in my directory or site, why shouldn't it enjoy a bit of spider action?