[pchelpers] Re: Google and Nofollow attribute-Full article - may need moderation

Loren Baker is mad as hell and he's not going to take it any longer. He's 
nailed his 13 reasons why the NoFollow attribute sucks to the blogosphere wall 
and banned them from Search Engine Journal. 
  
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  Editor's Note: The NoFollow attribute arrived with the idea that spam could 
be fought by removing its linking value. Instead, spam is worse now than when 
NoFollow began. Is it time to retire NoFollow? Comment on this article..
  
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From now on, when Google sees the attribute (rel="nofollow") on hyperlinks, 
those links won't get any credit when we rank websites in our search results. 
This isn't a negative vote for the site where the comment was posted; it's just 
a way to make sure that spammers get no benefit from abusing public areas like 
blog comments, trackbacks, and referrer lists. -- from the Official Google 
blog, January 2005. 
As the saying goes, the road to hell is paved with good intentions. NoFollow 
has to be called a good intention based on its genesis. Depriving spammers of 
the benefit of link love ? what's not to like? 

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How about 13 things? Loren wrote that NoFollow doesn't stop the problem it was 
meant to prevent: spammers still spam: 
  Using NoFollow in blog comments, the original intent of the tag, does nothing 
to discourage comment spammers. Using other anti-spamming tools such as 
question, math and plugins such as Akismet and SpamKarma for Wordpress is much 
more effective.
To back up his stance, Loren has turned off the NoFollow attribute for links 
from comments on Search Engine Journal: 
  I?m not using NoFollow? as of now, Search Engine Journal is using the 
DoFollow Plugin to turn off the default NoFollow in our blog comments :) 

I wonder if this will lead to more commenting?
Andy Beal gave his approval: 
  It?s a bold move, and I?ll be watching to see if it impacts the amount of 
spam or quality of comments.
Andy also said his Marketing Pilgrim site would soon test a plugin that "will 
reward loyal commentators with a link without the ?nofollow? attribute." Sounds 
like NoFollow's days are numbered. 

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John Durham <john.modec@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:  Gerald Gollinger wrote:
> John,
> 
> Here is the link. But it came to me via Yahoo email and you may need a 
> password to read it. - Gerald
> http://tinyurl.com/3yvcvq

You are probably right about the log in /password. The link shows a 
'session expired' message. The only way any of us will see it is if we 
are yahoo members, or you post the full article.

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