Soon everything will be nofollow - when the tag will not longer has any meaning google will have to go back to counting all links...I think they do already personally.
I don't know why anyone would submit to article sites if they gave nofollow links. I'm looking forward to hearing what they say to you.
When I posted my first article to EZINE ARTICLES, link was dofollow. And now I checked my 2 articles ( I have only 2 ) they both are NOFOLLOW! Just think how stupid it is to write articles for some other website! They can not only put nofollow on your links they can delete it all! Just think ezinearticles has a lot of articles now, it is anough to run it without any new submittions and i am sure they earn great money from adsense, do you think they will care about you?
Here is the answer from EZINE... NO FOLLOWS NOW IN EFFECT Being a market leader means having to make tough decisions sometimes… and this is one we’ve contemplated for more than 2 years now. What’s happening: Effective later this month, all links in the article body will include the rel=â€nofollow†attribute. That means we’ll be instructing the search engines to not crawl those links. Will they actually not crawl those links? I think the consensus is that they STILL crawl those links for indexing purposes, but unofficially. Why is this being done? To discourage self-promotion in the article body. The Article Body is the GIVE; The Resource Box is the TAKE. This decision was taken very seriously and we did a comprehensive internal stats study and found that 92.7% of our members already do include their links properly in the Resource Box. This change only affects the value or perceived value that 7.3% of our members receive. What we’re hoping will result from this change: Self-serving active links will end up in the Resource Box where they are suppose to be and thus, user trust and referral partner trust (ie: search engines & other social media sites) will improve. When traffic referral partner trust improves, our members win and we win at a higher level together. More traffic to us = more traffic to your website… and we’re basically placing a large bet that the negative consequences of 7% of our membership being unhappy because of this policy change will result in 100% of our members getting more traffic in the long haul. Always open to your thoughts?
I'm not really into articles anyway, only ever wrote 3 for ezine, but I always thought the point was to get your link as the source, not stuff the content with links as well? Also, does anyone really care about article directories anymore, are they any use still regardless of some silly tag?
We have just started a new article/blog post site. We use the "nofollow" tag because Google has penalized sites that link to other sites considered to be in a bad neighborhood. These are sites that have been banned or penalized by search engines. Even though your link may not be followed by a search engine spider to our site and help in the rankings, someone could see the article, visit your site and create a backlink from their site to ours which could help. Such a link might help another webmaster to see and appreciate your site, then give you a natural editorial link that does count. If they really like your article or blog post then they are very likely to visit your website or other links you have listed. Make sure the content is unique and interesting to read and you can't go wrong. A good article could be a form of marketing. Let us know if you are interested in adding any of your articles. SocialPosts.com
dofollow tags are for links that go in resource box, or the about author source if you put links without the content of your article then those will have a nofollow tag