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Published: Mar 10, 2009 - 07:09 am
Story Found By: bwelford 1070 Days ago
Category: SEO
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I think it is almost dead. Yes, nofollow is a D-saster. Personally I love dofollow and so do many other people. Google says nofollow stops spam, well I found a bunch of spam on Sphinn which is nofollow. Spammer want traffic and they use bots to post their spam all over the place.
It’ not only Twitter. It’s Delicious, StumbleUpon, Flickr etc. Google is not represantitve anymore at all.
Google does crawl links from Twitter. nofollow does not equal nocrawl. It means the link doesn’t pass PageRank.
You can search Twitter’s corpus of user-generated content nicely via search.twitter.com. That corpus can be crawled and indexed by third parties depending on what Twitter wants. I’m really trying to see the connection with rel=nofollow and PageRank, but I admit I’m confused.
This is my take on this, brian. With its preferred policy that comments on blogs should be nofollowed, Google has implied that blogs should be one-way monologues. It felt it had to do that presumably given that its algorithms were making blogs very visible in keyword queries.The Internet is ideal for dialogues, which are very well supported by Twitter. It’s a whole new other world.
My personal opinion is that one-way conversation isn’t implied at all. Conversations are still happening in blog comments, from what I see. Nofollow is just a tool. Some sites may choose to distrust all links they didn’t create themselves, if they feel they can’t scale their own anti-abuse efforts.A small subset of surfers may choose not to engage in a blog conversation if they see that links they add to the conversation aren’t followed by search engines, but my guess is that it’s a tiny minority.I understand the desire of discoverability of new content via Twitter. My personal opinion is that if a web site is in a make-or-break position of needing that followed link in a Twitter status, and can’t get a link from elsewhere, that site has bigger problems.
My thinking, brian, was based entirely on visitor traffic to online websites and what encourages that or what may discourage that.The question of back links is a whole other matter that I was not considering in this conversation.
OK, apologies if I misunderstood the scope of your post. I’d still posit that the amount of people who stop themselves from leaving comments because of a nofollow has to be pretty small. I have no data, just intuition.