Ponders concerning rel="nofollow"

#1

What search engines, other than Google, support it?

Also, will implementing it on my own sites benefit me in any way? I
find it to be evil, but if it gives more weight to the non-crippled
URLs, I guess it's good.

#2

On 9 Sep 2006 11:55:50 -0700, "KimmoA" <kimmoa (AT) gmail (DOT) com> wrote:

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What search engines, other than Google, support it?

Also, will implementing it on my own sites benefit me in any way? I
find it to be evil, but if it gives more weight to the non-crippled
URLs, I guess it's good.

Why would you want to be linking to sites if you don't want the
engines or people to follow them? You can gain authority by linking to
quality sites in your genre.

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#3

Big Bill wrote:

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Why would you want to be linking to sites if you don't want the
engines or people to follow them? You can gain authority by linking to
quality sites in your genre.

Ask Google, who invented rel="nofollow" (AFAIK). It is intended to stop
spam in comments etc.

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#4

Big Bill schreef:

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On 9 Sep 2006 11:55:50 -0700, "KimmoA" <kimmoa (AT) gmail (DOT) com> wrote:

What search engines, other than Google, support it?

Also, will implementing it on my own sites benefit me in any way? I
find it to be evil, but if it gives more weight to the non-crippled
URLs, I guess it's good.

Why would you want to be linking to sites if you don't want the
engines or people to follow them? You can gain authority by linking to
quality sites in your genre.

The only propper way to use it is when the website linking to is merely
used as an example but not trusted enough or a plain spammer.

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#5

On 9 Sep 2006 12:26:41 -0700, "KimmoA" <kimmoa (AT) gmail (DOT) com> wrote:

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Big Bill wrote:
Why would you want to be linking to sites if you don't want the
engines or people to follow them? You can gain authority by linking to
quality sites in your genre.

Ask Google, who invented rel="nofollow" (AFAIK). It is intended to stop
spam in comments etc.

Are links from your site spam? Which answers your question.

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#6

Big Bill wrote:

Quote:

Why would you want to be linking to sites if you don't want the
engines or people to follow them? You can gain authority by linking to
quality sites in your genre.

Ask Google, who invented rel="nofollow" (AFAIK). It is intended to stop
spam in comments etc.

Are links from your site spam? Which answers your question.

What?

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#7

"KimmoA" <kimmoa (AT) gmail (DOT) com> wrote:

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Big Bill wrote:
Why would you want to be linking to sites if you don't want the
engines or people to follow them? You can gain authority by linking to
quality sites in your genre.

Ask Google, who invented rel="nofollow" (AFAIK). It is intended to stop
spam in comments etc.

And in such a failure. A lot of blogs have it on by default while the
owner has no clue what it is, and what it's doing. I try to avoid
commenting on blogs that have it on. I mean, they want my free input and
give nothing in return.

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#8

John Bokma wrote:

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A lot of blogs have it on by default while the
owner has no clue what it is, and what it's doing. I try to avoid
commenting on blogs that have it on. I mean, they want my free input and
give nothing in return.

Yeah. You feel unmotivated to post at such places. Wikipedia has it for
their userpages, for example. It sucks!

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#9

"KimmoA" <kimmoa (AT) gmail (DOT) com> wrote:

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John Bokma wrote:
A lot of blogs have it on by default while the
owner has no clue what it is, and what it's doing. I try to avoid
commenting on blogs that have it on. I mean, they want my free input
and give nothing in return.

Yeah. You feel unmotivated to post at such places. Wikipedia has it
for their userpages, for example. It sucks!

Didn't know that, but I can imagine in this case /a good reason/ for
doing so. But blogspam? A spammer isn't going to check each blog if they
use it or not. I wonder even if they in general care.

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#10

On 9 Sep 2006 23:05:43 GMT, John Bokma <john (AT) castleamber (DOT) com> wrote:

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Yeah. You feel unmotivated to post at such places. Wikipedia has it
for their userpages, for example. It sucks!

Didn't know that,

Not 100% true.
Doesn't do it on the main wiki. The others, yes.

Has been mentioned in this group a long while back.

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but I can imagine in this case /a good reason/ for doing so. But blogspam? A spammer isn't going to check each blog if they
use it or not. I wonder even if they in general care.