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I think a major problem with the nofollow is that people think that by not using this attribute, you “trust” the site you are linking to.
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As you probably have already realized I do not use or believe in nofollow!
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A link without a nofollow is not like stamping a “Guarantee” on that site but it seems like that is what Google is asking anyone who links anywhere to do – Guarantee that the site they are linking to has some specific value – and that REALLY can never be determined because no business is perfect.
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I've not tried experimenting with such variations, but I'd be surprised if Google did take it to mean "nofollow" -- it's not as if it's a difficult attribute to master.
unknown title 2009
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Yes, I think rel = nofollow is what you’re after then.
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Absolutely the big problem with nofollow is that there’s so many differing opinions on how to use it.
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And then, there’s the issue of whether nofollow is really for combating spam, and if so why is Google now telling everyone to use it for paid links too.
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What Google did was invent a new tag called nofollow which means that links with this tag do not get any ranking boost for Google.
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And nofollow, which is a roughly analogous initiative, came together in just a few days, with the involvement of dozens of different people.
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I want stop them to do it by add tag nofollow only to some link (from a list).
phpBB.com bipenett 2010
alexz commented on the word nofollow
A lot of blogs and message boards automatically add 'nofollow' to user submitted links to help prevent spammers from benefitting from blog spam.
OpenStreetMap implemented 'nofollow' and it reduced comment spam a bit, but the dumber spammers out there will continue to waste their time. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nofollow
April 19, 2013