Comments on: Quick comment on nofollow

By: Jason

Jason — Fri, 21 Aug 2009 13:35:37 +0000

I want to sell links on my website, but I don’t want to fall foul of Google. The link brokerage system I used automatically places the links on the site so I can’t stick in a nofollow. If I surround the ad unit with will that work?

By: David Kartuzinski

David Kartuzinski — Tue, 09 Jun 2009 16:41:47 +0000

I just read an article stating you said at the “SMX Broadcast June 2nd 2009″ that Google is now ignoring the nofollow tag. That it will now index and count Page Rank to all pages regardless of whether or not there is a nofollow attribute. Is that true?
-DK

By: matura

matura — Sat, 25 Apr 2009 02:59:32 +0000

I think that comments should always be no follow but it won’t keep spammers from commenting.

By: Paul

Paul — Sat, 28 Mar 2009 15:40:51 +0000

well like i said before on another blog google should just open up to do follow and anyone who spams should just be penalized and thats the end of it.

By: Marco Demaio

Marco Demaio — Thu, 12 Feb 2009 09:40:26 +0000

You say: “The best-known use for nofollow is blog comment spam…”
But why then not removing totally the link?!
Why does the editor let a spam link to be in its blog.
Can’t Google see it’s crap, why doesn’t it ignores totally pages packed with links?!

GOOGLE nofollow PARADOX:

1) We start from the wide recognized assumption that links on website W1 that show other websites W2, W3, …, WN decrease W1 PageRank.

2) Therefor the webmaster (or seo) of W1 will add nofollow to all links that point out to his website.

3) But also the webmasters of W2, W3, …, WN will consider covinient to do the same thing of step 2 to their websites.

4) In conclusion each website on the internet will become completly isolated with all link pointing toward it being nofollowed and all link pointing out of it being nofollowed.
In this situation a search engine based on link popularity (as Google PageRank) looses all its efficacy because each website is a website that does not increase/decrease anyone’s else websites.

Plz don’t misunderstand me, I love Google, and I think Google is not only a business but the only star remained on teh web against the “evil Monopoly”. Once was Yahoo, but now it’s too weak to fight, if we let the “evil Monopoly” ruling also the web and the servers’ world e we’ll see one day a web full of useless Flash or even worst Silverlight ’silly’ animations.
We’ll se a web with no document.write Javascript funcion because XML can not handle it.
It’s not only important that Google survives, it’s important that goes on being a strong player.

By: Introductions

Introductions — Tue, 30 Dec 2008 00:58:22 +0000

I think that it is unfortunate that the good should be punished along with the bad. I have always wondered what the definition of spamming is. I can see clearly that advertising your camcorder sales site on a dating site is (or gag dating site) is inappropriate. But on the other hand these indiscriminate spammers have created such a sensitivity that it is difficult to discuss a site that you really believe in, in related and appropriate forums. NoFollow is definitely a good option to have at hand but it does have the same issue of not being able to differentiate between good links and bad links.

By: Pragmites

Pragmites — Wed, 05 Nov 2008 11:43:44 +0000

The nofollow tag is something that is supposed not to pass on link juice to the external link, but I notice that even Google seems to consider these links. For example, I am a webmaster for a few websites, and using the Google inlinks checker, I came across many inlinks with nofollow tags. Now, is there a difference between these two?

By: Ruben Zevallos Jr.

Ruben Zevallos Jr. — Tue, 29 Jul 2008 12:09:24 +0000

I think now I understand what is the real use for Nofollow. Thanks for your info.

By: stephane

stephane — Thu, 05 Jun 2008 07:29:47 +0000

Hi Matts,

Just a question. I implemented nofollow for all my sponsolinks, i ask with my Webmaster tools to reevaluate my website marche.fr. How many time get Google for reevaluate a website ?

By: SEO Guide

SEO Guide — Mon, 21 Apr 2008 13:34:14 +0000

Thanks Matt, I got here through seomoz. I have a question. What do you think about the practice of nofollowing certain pages in your site like: contact us, privacy policy, etc.?