Comments on: The Truth About The NoFollow Attribute

By: Kabal

Kabal — Tue, 09 Feb 2010 13:06:22 +0000

You are right when saying that spammers mostly avoid nofollow blogs. If you look closely on SEO forums and blogs, people ask and submit lists with dofollow blogs because SEO “experts” are sick of nofollow. Trust me, I work as a SEO and I know what I am talking about. I don’t get bonus for nofollow links from my company and I bet many others don’t. I wouldn’t call myself a “spammer” though, but I must look for dofollow blogs if I want my work to roll on. But, I am not afraid of nofollow. For my personal site I make comments on nofollow sites because I care for the conversation, not for the link. If I care for the link, I’d place it here… And, I do believe that nofollow link is not 100% worthless. It is recorded in Webmaster tools so that counts for something…

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By: Francois du Toit

Francois du Toit — Mon, 24 Dec 2007 16:17:46 +0000

Hi Boris,

Yes, it would fall under the definition of a “trackback”. A useful feature for monitoring other blog posts that link to mine. Some users do indeed use trackbacks to spam sites…

Anyway, I have removed the comment as it didn’t look right.

Enjoy the rest of your day,
Francois du Toit

By: Boris C.

Boris C. — Mon, 24 Dec 2007 15:57:09 +0000

Is it called “trackback”? It does looks like a spam of some kind.

By: Francois du Toit

Francois du Toit — Mon, 24 Dec 2007 10:43:20 +0000

Hi Boris,

Many thanks for your message. Glad you found the post useful.

Regarding the hyperlinked comment you are referring to… When I write a new blog post and link to one of my other blog posts it shows up like that. I know it looks a bit strange.

All the best,
Francois du Toit

By: Boris C.

Boris C. — Mon, 24 Dec 2007 10:09:32 +0000

Very informative post, you just fortified my knowledge on SEO. But if you can see above, there is a hyperlinked post made by “Why Paid Links That Pass PageRank Is A Bad Idea » Online Marketing From Home” that starts and ends with [...] and has summary of some of your post.

Why is that?

By: Jake

Jake — Sat, 17 Nov 2007 18:34:35 +0000

I generally post on something that is interesting. Although Google may not pass any “Google juice” but I believe it still index your link. This is what I found when checking my stats.

By: Mike Blyth

Mike Blyth — Fri, 16 Nov 2007 11:16:27 +0000

Thanks for taking the time to explain this. I wondered what nofollow meant and whether it was something the spammers were putting in. It sounds like, for most of us, the safest thing is to let the blog software insert nofollow as it will.