In other words, I’d expect to see the ratio of nofollowed links to regular links on the web be >1 relatively soon, and quickly approach double digits thereafter.

What impact does that have on Google’s ranking system and the general use of nofollow once the majority of links on the web have a nofollow attribute attached to them?

My hindi song lyrics site http://lyricswale.com does not have nofollow, does is it going to effect my page rank, as it has been reduced from 4 to 1 in just 8 months.

Please advise

Just a thought…

For example, I was told that Digg start adding nofollows if an individual repeatedly promotes content from one site.

I completely understand why this is in as it stops the spammers, but then how can I let people know about my content. Having only just started the site and with relatively few visitors, it’s unlikely that many people will find me naturally or Digg me.

It seems like a bit of a vicious circle that will only benefit larger already established sites.

Sites like digg served to help unknown sites get into the index and thus through ideals they could get recognized and have people appredicate and cite their content. But now with more turning to nofollow, smaller content is not getting acknowledged – it can’t get the credit it deserves because no one is able to find it in the first place. Sites like digg treat these sites as if they are spam because they simply have never heard of the site.

I’m sad to say your logic fails to account for this – assuming that content creator doesn’t spam their link to people via email or through other blogs gratuitously they really can’t be discovered. So really this sorta action encourages people to spam their website wherever they can so they can get recognized, the people with the knowledge and spammers will still find ways around it – but the small time content producer is the one who’s really getting penalized.

I know this isn’t your fault, and it’s a larger problem but just wondering whether you guys and gals over at webspam have really thought about this and how you intend to remedy or at least look into it.

Matt: I know you’ve tons of comments to read on your blogs but if you get a chance, I’d love to see a different blog entry just about this addressing some of my questions below.

After reading more about Knol, Will it have the effect it will have on SERP domination?
How well will these articles rank?
Is Google planning on mining these data in future?

The question is what are they going to do once they attribute you, the author, as an authoritative source on a particular subject matter.

I had no idea that Google does similar things with Knol. You just gave me something to research and read more about.

Keep ‘em coming!