Comments on: Google Changes Rules On Nofollow – Forgets To Send Memo

By: Roland

Roland — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 13:33:45 +0000

I also noticed this. In my opinion Google only values nofollow links when looking at freshness. The better ranking is only for a short period of time.

To me it makes sense that Google does this, because lots of blogs and social media sites define ALL the links as nofollow (Twitter for example). If Google ignores these nofollow links, the blogs will be ignored completely.

By: Frank Levert

Frank Levert — Thu, 21 Aug 2008 18:30:51 +0000

Nothing surprising to me. The nofollow tag was kind of dumb anyway considering we can already use sitemaps and robots.txt files to let Google know what is important on our website. If a website refers to something external, I think that “something” should be used as a reference or it is going against the nature of the Internet. Same thing with penalties Google gives to websites for linking to “bad” neighborhood. Why should someone be penalized for blogging about email spam and link to the problematic spammer? It would be like saying “I won’t watch CNN anymore because they talk about war”. Penalize the spammer not the person linking to it! This said, I’m into SEO so of course I was playing by the rules and using nofollow tags on my own website but still…I wish it had not been put into place at the first place.

By: Mert

Mert — Thu, 21 Aug 2008 03:45:26 +0000

Well someone better tell that to Mr. Cutts who was “told by his engineers” that the minor flaw was fixed. I have suspected a competition of mine pulling this off also for my local area with nofollow comment blogs. I would love to see the keyword experiment though.

By: Streko

Streko — Wed, 20 Aug 2008 21:23:45 +0000

HOLY SHIT! SOMEONE IS EXPERIMENTING AND THINKING OUT OF THE BOX!!!!!

dude, don’t even mess with sphinn – if it wasn’t said by a keynote at a conference no one over there is going to believe shit.

By: TheMadHat

TheMadHat — Wed, 20 Aug 2008 21:12:49 +0000

Shhhh….

By: Jon Henshaw

Jon Henshaw — Wed, 20 Aug 2008 15:11:03 +0000

@Flora, hence the point of this blog entry. Neither does anyone else.

By: Flora

Flora — Wed, 20 Aug 2008 13:48:23 +0000

I don’t think link juice passes for no followed links in blogs…