12 reasons against nofollow July 26, 2005
Posted by JalanSutera.com™ in Blog.trackback
On January 18, 2005, Google proposed a rel=”nofollow” attribute that could be placed on a link; doing so instructs most major search engines to ignore the link, rendering it useless to spammers. Software is then rewritten to add this attribute to any link embedded in a comment. As of April 2005, nofollow has seen expanding usage, but is not yet universal. But it is true that nofollow is the answer to fight comment spams?
- nofollow does not prevent comment spam
- nofollow is semantically incorrect
- nofollow harms the connections between web sites
- nofollow is not useful for humans, just for search engines using PageRank or a similar technique
- nofollow could be used to shut web sites out
- nofollow discriminates legitimate users as spammers
- nofollow heists commentators’ earned attention
- nofollow could be used to further discriminate weblogs
- nofollow prevents the Web from being a web
- nofollow eliminates the dissemination of free speech
- nofollow was developed in privacy with only search engines companies taking part in the discussion
SEO, Google, Search, Spam, Spammers, Blog, Weblog
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I don’t think software is rewritten. Some codes are added, but definitely not rewritten.
the ultimate reason for nofollow: people has been doing exactly that long long time ago before nofollow was invented! nofollow merely introduces a standard, non hackish way to do that.
read more here: http://priyadi.net/archives/2005/01/21/some-objections-to-googles-comment-spamming-solution/