Both Sides of the NoFollow

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Want to hear the blogger’s side of no-follow, check out Anil Dash blog. (post)

Hear what search engine expert Danny Sullivan has to say about it. (post)

Also look at Anil’s The Social Impacts of Software Choices, which looks at how bloggers are now wondering if the impact of nofollow will hurt how they link between themselves for search purposes. I have a long response I posted to that, as well. The main bit that struck me was the comment that some bloggers worry nofollow will hurt their chances of ranking well when they comment on other blogs:

There’s also some resistance from real bloggers, who are fretting now that their comments won’t confer PageRank on their blogs.

To which I responded:

This sounds very much like bloggers with an SEO complex. I need links for ranking? How about you write good stuff, and people will comment on it within their own posts that will help — not that you need to be able to comment behind a post and get respect that isn’t necessarily earned.

Bloggers with an SEO Complex, … that’s just priceless. It’s like I said

Find some blogs about your topic, and make some comments. IF YOUR COMMENTS ARE TOPIC RELATED THEY ARE NOT SP@M (promote your blog Part I)

If you decide to have a blog, spam is something you’ll have to deal with at some point. Make it so only registered users can comment or put up one those image security scripts. The more I think about this the more I think they got it wrong. They did so with with the best of intentions ,but you know what they say … the road to hell is paved with good intentions. I just don’t think they they thought this all the way through. They got to caught up in the good without looking at how it becomes an even more powerful tool for those who know how to abuse it. I guess maybe instead of bitching about how wrong it is I should go out and use to my own advantage.

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