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This is incredible!
Time to pop open some champagne and join me in a toast!:cheers: :cheers: :cheers:
They finally did it, such a simple solution. I would have thought they’d have just block out any links surrounded by “Posted by” #LINK# “on”.
Oh well, onto the next way of getting quick rankings (called spamming to most).
From now on, always check the source code of pages that you exchange links with. If rel=”nofollow” is used then don’t exchange links!
:Partier: Well alrighty then!
EyesCoffee wrote:From now on, always check the source code of pages that you exchange links with. If rel=”nofollow” is used then don’t exchange links!It has other added benefits, for example (some people will not like this at all) massive link exchanging will go down since checking tons of sites repeatedly to see that they haven’t added the no follow tag to their links will be a pain in the butt.
At the same time, exchanging links with someone where you both use the no follow tag would be fine.
This is a great development that will hopefully “weed out” all the really crappy no-effort sites that have been hogging many top positions.
It will be interesting to see how this develops. I think the real expert link spammers may have the money and resources to develop a solution to this, but maybe not. It may also be a concern if the search engines take this one step further and work hard on detecting any form of link credit that seems artificial. The truth is, all of us here who rank well engage in activities that “artificially” build link credit. So, where will the line be drawn?
It’s sad that a small group of people have link spammed so badly with no content crap sites that they have drawn too much attention to the whole idea of links being worth something.
From now one I hope it will be a more level playing field where the person with the “best blog spam tools” doesnt always win…
A step in the right direction but it clearly proves that they dont know how to deal with the problem. This is a patch that a minority of the blog communities will embrace.
Another benefit, people will be happier to link to quality websites now. Just say eveyrone wants to link to CasinoMeister or WizardOfOdds but didn’t because they didn’t want to lose rankings on their pages, now they can use the nofollow tag and still give quality content to visitors.
As with Google, quality content will be rewarded!
Lets all wave bye :hithead: :hithead: to those spammy sites hogging the top positions in yahoo.
I hope you guys realize that these are some bad news…
MovableType will use “plug-in” – considering they are the biggest blog provider, since it’s not integrated into the software, not many people will get the plug-in, which means that the spamming will get worse – now the spam links on those blogs which dont have the “patch” will be more important, since thay will be considered “quality” links…
I dont know man, the search engine companies are more focused now on the “commercial data indexing”, then on the “free search”…Cokksukkers!
And dont forget to bring a towel :rasta:
This is indeed EXCELLENT NEWS!!! I hope the blog spammers all end up at an Israeli Soup kitchen!!!
:Partier: :la-de-da: :la-de-da: :la-de-da: :Partier:
Nah, they are just “washing” their hands, they could certainly do much better than that. What about the comments already posted???
And another thing, Yahoo!Search says:
By adding a rel=”nofollow” attribute to hyperlinks, webmasters and weblog owners can tell search engines that the links are effectively untrusted. For example, this:
Becomes this:
We think this is a good first step toward significantly reducing the spam burden on bloggers and weblog hosting companies. It’s great to see so many players on board. In the coming weeks you can expect to see the changes reflected in our web index.
Now, if Yahoo would punish you for the new tag, all I have to do is post links to my competitors on my homepage with the new tag in them, and I should expect them to become “untrusted”?!? Even drop from the index?
3 words: “WHAT THE ****?”
Lets hope they are working to address the existing comments and the damage already done by blog spammers. Quite frankly I think these assholes should be hung from the nearest tree.
Its sad when the only way people can compete is to do it through Spam or cheating or by attempting to damage others with fake links. If these losers put the same time and effort and thought into building quality sites with useful and unique content the internet would be a far better place.
From what I understand, if a link has the nofollow tag on it, the link simply isn’t counted towards anything. I don’t think it’s a negative, it’s just zero.
I think this is a really stupid move that just shows that they have no idea how to beat blog spamming.
The reason?
The people who are sitting at the top of the SERPs have just been handed another weapon for their arsenal. Any “tool” which has the potential to influence the SERPS, or Page Rank, that requires outside influence can and WILL be massively manipulated.
I don’t wish to elaborate any further but there are likely some of you who will see or have an idea about what I am talking about.
all I have to do is post links to my competitors on my homepage with the new tag in them, and I should expect them to become “untrusted”?!? Even drop from the index?
Dang. And here I was elated… I should hope they straighten that out.
