Now, that being said, in a perfect world, users would not be running spam pages, and all readers of your blog would just be linking back to their own blog, where they may have even given you some link love by continuing the topic of the conversation on their own page.

Wikipedia though… nofollows leave a bad taste in my mouth. It would be like if you the blogger wrote about some topic from another article, and nofollowed *that* link. Wikipedia is copying (in many cases, merely just rewording, like a 4th grade book report) valuable information found online, and then BAM, now wikipedia ranks higher than you do in all searches, even though they just took your in depth research and claimed it as their own. And what do you have to show for it? It used to give you a boost in rank, but now.. it really just hurts you. It’s pretty disgusting. Especially when so many spammers of wikipedia are caught and policed for adding their own links, I do not see how nofollows add anything to the table.

Now, that being said, in a perfect world, users would not be running spam pages, and all readers of your blog would just be linking back to their own blog, where they may have even given you some link love by continuing the topic of the conversation on their own page.

Wikipedia though… nofollows leave a bad taste in my mouth. It would be like if you the blogger wrote about some topic from another article, and nofollowed *that* link. Wikipedia is copying (in many cases, merely just rewording, like a 4th grade book report) valuable information found online, and then BAM, now wikipedia ranks higher than you do in all searches, even though they just took your in depth research and claimed it as their own. And what do you have to show for it? It used to give you a boost in rank, but now.. it really just hurts you. It’s pretty disgusting. Especially when so many spammers of wikipedia are caught and policed for adding their own links, I do not see how nofollows add anything to the table.

But for me nofollow tag create flag in the eyes of google as if you are not trusting your own sites why would google trust urs. just my 2 cents.

But for me nofollow tag create flag in the eyes of google as if you are not trusting your own sites why would google trust urs. just my 2 cents.

I have been nofollowing some of them for a while, others I just avoid linking to.

I just encourage people to join my dofollow community on Bumpzee which is growing well, and provides a central core of information and some great blogs to interact with.

I have been nofollowing some of them for a while, others I just avoid linking to.

I just encourage people to join my dofollow community on Bumpzee which is growing well, and provides a central core of information and some great blogs to interact with.

Google DOES NOT IGNORE nofollow. I am 100% sure about this as I was doing experiments on my main web-site which has several solid PR4 pages and only 2 dozen inlinks from other solid sites (in other words – situation can be approximated with a controlled experiment). When I put nofollow’s on most internal (and external) links, many pages went into supplemental index. In addition, one that was 1st (first = top = the very top) out of million+ results for a 3 word phrase for MONTHS, now is not showing anywhere in the main index results.

Google DOES NOT IGNORE nofollow. I am 100% sure about this as I was doing experiments on my main web-site which has several solid PR4 pages and only 2 dozen inlinks from other solid sites (in other words – situation can be approximated with a controlled experiment). When I put nofollow’s on most internal (and external) links, many pages went into supplemental index. In addition, one that was 1st (first = top = the very top) out of million+ results for a 3 word phrase for MONTHS, now is not showing anywhere in the main index results.

As for this little plugin: I think all things begin small. We have no idea how much of an impact it will make until some time passes and things happen, or don’t happen. In the meantime, I think it’s worth my time to blog about it tomorrow.

I Floow, but I don’t care for those massive dofollow lists. I see it kind of like karma. What I give will come back to me in good ways in the end,

As for this little plugin: I think all things begin small. We have no idea how much of an impact it will make until some time passes and things happen, or don’t happen. In the meantime, I think it’s worth my time to blog about it tomorrow.

I Floow, but I don’t care for those massive dofollow lists. I see it kind of like karma. What I give will come back to me in good ways in the end,

This whole “nofollow” business is rooted in a very lack mentality.

As a blogger, I really don’t think it’s worth your cycles to worry about it. Since people can arbitrarily put nofollow tags on whatever they choose, I think search engines are more and more IGNORING the nofollow tags.

Everton, I think the steps you’re taking to encourage comments and point out that you don’t have the nofollow lack mentality is excellent, but I wouldn’t spend my cycles going beyond that.

Have an awesome day!
Dan

This whole “nofollow” business is rooted in a very lack mentality.

As a blogger, I really don’t think it’s worth your cycles to worry about it. Since people can arbitrarily put nofollow tags on whatever they choose, I think search engines are more and more IGNORING the nofollow tags.

Everton, I think the steps you’re taking to encourage comments and point out that you don’t have the nofollow lack mentality is excellent, but I wouldn’t spend my cycles going beyond that.

Have an awesome day!
Dan