Comments on: Google’s Insidious “Nofollow”

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By: sports bettor

sports bettor — Wed, 14 Feb 2007 15:30:41 +0000

I just found out about the “nofollow” today. Anyway, it looks like I’m a little late to the game, but it doesn’t seem to make sense to me. It looks like Google is looking for a short cut in order to regulate thier search engine rankings. This would create less work for them while it hurts the blogging community. I think this sucks.

By: John

John — Wed, 20 Dec 2006 05:32:16 +0000

I don’t believe in rel=”nofollow” either. It doesn’t reduce the spam. The only thing that reduces spam is a good spam filter.

By: Standard Warfare

Standard Warfare — Sun, 15 Oct 2006 12:10:29 +0000

I scrapped rel=’nofollow’ on my blog, it doesn’t stop spam. The best way is just to moderate comments.

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By: Nofollow revisited - Homeland Stupidity

Nofollow revisited - Homeland Stupidity — Sat, 13 May 2006 17:11:23 +0000

[...] For Movable Type, simply disable and remove the nofollow plugin. For WordPress, install the NoNofollow plugin and set the number of days to 0 (zero). Update: Mark Jaquith has posted his Screw Nofollow plugin for WordPress which is smaller and less complicated. [...]

By: einfach persoenlich Weblog

einfach persoenlich Weblog — Mon, 09 Jan 2006 11:42:02 +0000

nofollow – 6 Monate danach

Im Januar 2005 sollte ein neues HTML-Attribut das Internet revolutionieren und Spam-frei machen. Google verkündete seine strategische Allianz mit Blog-Herstellern und Suchmachinen-Konkurrenten gegen Spamer. Was hat nun »nofollow« nach…

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All Narfed Up » Blog Archive » Dump everything Google? — Wed, 17 Aug 2005 23:08:45 +0000

[...] Whoa, nice! I’m inching myself away from Gmail, of course. I’m definitely going to install the “Screw NoFollow” plugin, too. [...]

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Sat, 23 Jul 2005 12:37:11 +0000

Sechs Monate danach ist von der Aufregung nichts mehr zu spÃƒÂ¼ren. Erfahrungen im Umgang mit Ã‚Â»nofollowÃ‚Â« wurden gemacht. Selten kann man nur noch ÃƒÂ¼ber Ã‚Â»nofollowÃ‚Â« etwas lesen. Nofollow revisited, GoogleÃ‚Â´s Insidious ‘Nofollow’ und Nofollow considered harmless sind die beiden wichtigsten persÃƒÂ¶nlichen Statements zu diesem Thema. Google verzeichnet 1.320.000 Treffer bei der weitweiten Suchanfrage nach nofollow. Ganze 54.200

By: Mark

Mark — Wed, 08 Jun 2005 19:22:06 +0000

Their incentive is still clicks. Clicks via Google or clicks via e-mail and millions of blogs are still clicks. Google may be a great way to drive clicks, but if Google is no longer a viable option for them, they’re not just going to give up. I’ve certainly not seen spam attempts decrease since the beginning of the year. And don’t forget that nofollow is harmful to blog ranking in search engines. Part of the reason that blogs are ranked so high is because they all link to each other. Every comment with an author site link is a Pagerank transaction. Eliminating these will cause blogs to drop.

Even if nofollow could reduce spam by 25%, it wouldn’t be worth it for the hit that blogs would get on search engines.

By: Rob

Rob — Wed, 08 Jun 2005 19:09:53 +0000

why would they want to get their Google Pagerank up? So they have higher prominence and get more clicks. Well, nofollow or not, links on blogs are still links. That’s the entire “model”Â for e-mail spam. Get people to click on the links. So nofollow or not, they’re going to keep spamming.

True, but nobody is claiming that the no follow links by themselves will stop spam by itself. Its just supposed to remove some of the incentive for doing it.