Comments on: Are Linkbait Campaigns Hurt By NoFollow?

By: Yuri

Yuri — Thu, 30 Nov 2006 03:51:22 +0000

You are right to doubt the effect of the nofollow attribute. Maybe the big three want us think nofollow doesn’t work.

I have commented on some major blogs earlier with my name and the other blog URL and the blog hit PR5 easily. Of course, I had some clear links, but it leaves room for an experiment.

By: Mark Barrera

Mark Barrera — Wed, 29 Nov 2006 01:26:11 +0000

Not only does it not discourage spammers, I don’t even know if Google really treats the nofollow the way people think. All this talk of nofollow made me do a little experiment. Let me know if you have any similar experiences…

By: bj

bj — Wed, 29 Nov 2006 01:01:57 +0000

In Wordpress the nofollow attribute is only automatically put on links that are included in comments, to discourage spammers (not that that works!) If you link to a blogpost from within a blogpost or in a linklist the link is a good one. Also, there are plugins that strip out the nofollow attribute if you wish to use them.

By: Mark Barrera

Mark Barrera — Wed, 29 Nov 2006 00:32:00 +0000

Apparently Arnie also didn’t realize that his spammy comment would be nofollowed on this blog as well. I assumed that all search engine marketers used firefox extensions such as Search Status to automatically highlight links with the nofollow tag on them. I have caught a few people trying to sneak this onto links they supposedly gave to a client. Here is an example of someone I caught “accidentally” doing this and “claiming” that he will fix it (although it still has the nofollow).

By: Arnie - Internet Marketing Company

Arnie - Internet Marketing Company — Tue, 28 Nov 2006 21:12:59 +0000

As a search engine marketing company that focuses on linkbait and other one way linking campaigns for our clients, I found this article to be very interesting. I actually did not know about the WordPress nofollow tag. Thanks for the insights.