Comments on: Why do top SEO bloggers use rel=”nofollow” http://www.ogletreeseo.com/128.html Expert advice on search engine optimization Fri, 25 Jul 2008 10:14:44 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.2.1 By: Nenita Mothershade http://www.ogletreeseo.com/128.html#comment-51951 Nenita Mothershade Wed, 12 Mar 2008 00:42:32 +0000 http://www.ogletreeseo.com/128.html#comment-51951 The new distributed viral forum/blog/wiki/classified/etc advertising engine is here. We can spread the word about your site in short amount of time to millions of people and help with your SEO process by using backlinks. Start your campaign today! http://widecircles.com The new distributed viral forum/blog/wiki/classified/etc advertising engine is here. We can spread the word about your site in short amount of time to millions of people and help with your SEO process by using backlinks. Start your campaign today! http://widecircles.com

]]> By: Eduard http://www.ogletreeseo.com/128.html#comment-44513 Eduard Sat, 26 Jan 2008 00:33:55 +0000 http://www.ogletreeseo.com/128.html#comment-44513 Its not as bad as it sounds.. it's optionally realy. i guess you can disable it on blogging sites via an option group. And besides, to SEO 'the neighborhood' counts. I-follow mode is good in theory, in practice lot of peoples abuse it .. Its not as bad as it sounds.. it’s optionally realy. i guess you can disable it on blogging sites via an option group. And besides, to SEO ‘the neighborhood’ counts. I-follow mode is good in theory, in practice lot of peoples abuse it ..

]]> By: SEO http://www.ogletreeseo.com/128.html#comment-8781 SEO Sun, 22 Jul 2007 10:00:12 +0000 http://www.ogletreeseo.com/128.html#comment-8781 yeah… ! Wonder what happen if we all use nofollow on our websites? And how about DMOZ & Yahoo directory. Have a good one. yeah… !
Wonder what happen if we all use nofollow on our websites? And how about DMOZ & Yahoo directory.

Have a good one.

]]> By: Randa Clay http://www.ogletreeseo.com/128.html#comment-3990 Randa Clay Wed, 11 Apr 2007 19:18:31 +0000 http://www.ogletreeseo.com/128.html#comment-3990 Want to tell everyone that you’ve turned off the nofollow in your comments? Check out my new “ifollow” logos- grab one for your sidebar! http://randaclay.com/archives/the-i-follow-movement Want to tell everyone that you’ve turned off the nofollow in your comments? Check out my new “ifollow” logos- grab one for your sidebar!
http://randaclay.com/archives/the-i-follow-movement

]]> By: Karl Sultana http://www.ogletreeseo.com/128.html#comment-3698 Karl Sultana Sun, 01 Apr 2007 12:27:45 +0000 http://www.ogletreeseo.com/128.html#comment-3698 The nofollow tag is very useful in many other cases not just for dublicate content issues. For example I use linkmetro.com to do article exchanges. Many webmasters take weeks before they approve the article exchange. Within that period I use the nofollow tag in the link inside their articles. That's also the cause with certain type of link exchanges. The nofollow tag is very useful in many other cases not just for dublicate content issues. For example I use linkmetro.com to do article exchanges.

Many webmasters take weeks before they approve the article exchange. Within that period I use the nofollow tag in the link inside their articles. That’s also the cause with certain type of link exchanges.

]]> By: thomas http://www.ogletreeseo.com/128.html#comment-3653 thomas Tue, 27 Mar 2007 07:43:40 +0000 http://www.ogletreeseo.com/128.html#comment-3653 Jim if you are so bothered about having links to adult sites in the comments. why don't you disable the URL field in your comments?? I have a feeling you have the URL field as it acts as a magnet that attracts people to write comments. And you trick them by using nofollow, as not many follow the nofollow. Don't you think that is unfair? Googlebot is advanced enough to recognize links present on comments and differentiate these links from other links present on regular pages. So I really don't think your site can be penalized for that. If it does get penalized, google has to be a real dumb and primitive search engine, which it is not. The internet has to be free, so that all links are crawled, to ensure there are less sites present as the invisible web. All sites should be accessible to everyone. What wikipedia has done is wrong and what bloggers using nofollow do is wrong too. What's wrong in helping a site get crawled?? What are you going to loose? Share what you have and you will get more.. Jim if you are so bothered about having links to adult sites in the comments. why don’t you disable the URL field in your comments??

I have a feeling you have the URL field as it acts as a magnet that attracts people to write comments. And you trick them by using nofollow, as not many follow the nofollow. Don’t you think that is unfair?

Googlebot is advanced enough to recognize links present on comments and differentiate these links from other links present on regular pages. So I really don’t think your site can be penalized for that. If it does get penalized, google has to be a real dumb and primitive search engine, which it is not.

The internet has to be free, so that all links are crawled, to ensure there are less sites present as the invisible web. All sites should be accessible to everyone. What wikipedia has done is wrong and what bloggers using nofollow do is wrong too. What’s wrong in helping a site get crawled?? What are you going to loose?

Share what you have and you will get more..

]]> By: ogletree http://www.ogletreeseo.com/128.html#comment-3116 ogletree Sat, 10 Feb 2007 02:45:40 +0000 http://www.ogletreeseo.com/128.html#comment-3116 I mention 2 plugins in the article http://www.semiologic.com/software/dofollow/ http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/wordpress-15-plugin-strip-nofollow-tag-from-comment-urls/ I mention 2 plugins in the article

http://www.semiologic.com/software/dofollow/

http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/wordpress-15-plugin-strip-nofollow-tag-from-comment-urls/

]]> By: WebGuerrilla http://www.ogletreeseo.com/128.html#comment-3115 WebGuerrilla Sat, 10 Feb 2007 02:36:03 +0000 http://www.ogletreeseo.com/128.html#comment-3115 I use it because it's the default setting in WordPress for comments, and I'm really lazy. User contributed content is what it was originally designed for, so I don't think it's that big of a deal. Hell, I might even turn it off if I new how... :) I use it because it’s the default setting in WordPress for comments, and I’m really lazy. User contributed content is what it was originally designed for, so I don’t think it’s that big of a deal. Hell, I might even turn it off if I new how… :)

]]> By: Devon http://www.ogletreeseo.com/128.html#comment-3020 Devon Mon, 05 Feb 2007 05:00:40 +0000 http://www.ogletreeseo.com/128.html#comment-3020 I've been considering removing nofollow from everything myself. I just don't like the nofollow thing being default behavior. I'd like all links to be noted by search engines, unless I say otherwise. What I don't understand though, is how nofollow stops spambots & spammers from commenting. Does it? Because all I get from the attribute value is that it's supposed to keep a search engine from logging the link. Does nofollow actually squelch spam from being done by a bot or person? I’ve been considering removing nofollow from everything myself. I just don’t like the nofollow thing being default behavior. I’d like all links to be noted by search engines, unless I say otherwise. What I don’t understand though, is how nofollow stops spambots & spammers from commenting. Does it? Because all I get from the attribute value is that it’s supposed to keep a search engine from logging the link. Does nofollow actually squelch spam from being done by a bot or person?

]]> By: graywolf http://www.ogletreeseo.com/128.html#comment-2679 graywolf Mon, 22 Jan 2007 22:20:29 +0000 http://www.ogletreeseo.com/128.html#comment-2679 I use akismet and spam karma which dealt with the automated stuff, the big problem was the manual hand generated spam. Even after adding nofolow back in I manually delete between 10-20 a week, before that it was at least double the amount. It sucks but I just don't have the time waste on nonsense like that. I use akismet and spam karma which dealt with the automated stuff, the big problem was the manual hand generated spam. Even after adding nofolow back in I manually delete between 10-20 a week, before that it was at least double the amount. It sucks but I just don’t have the time waste on nonsense like that.

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