I’ve been going through the blog feeds I read, and today seems to be all about the no-follow tag, WikiPedia using it, and whether that’s going to help them prevent spam.
Let me answer the third question first: no.* I originally gave my reasoning why, but who cares?* No-follow has never stopped spammers.* Therefore, the answer is self-evident.
I like SEOrefugee’s take: that it’s a slap in the face of the
webmasters who helped build WikiPedia.* And after reading GreyWolf’s post on the
history of Google’s no-follow, I must admit a certain temptation to don my tin foil hat and wonder if WikiPedia’s appearance at the top of every Google page prompted Google to pressure them to use the magic tag.* In my whinier moments, I feel like Google just doesn’t want anyone to be able to launch a website unless they personally approve it.* Fortunately, Project Mai Tai continues to prove that with or without Google, you can launch a site.* The real necessity is, as always, inbound links.* It doesn’t matter whether they’re no-follow or not, since that’s only a
PR thing and
PR is only a Google thing.
I’m also going to copy Refugee and link to
SEObook extension for FireFox.* I’ve installed it so when I’m commenting on blogs to get inbounds - something I only do in a non-spamming, adding valuable content way - I can not waste my time with blogs that are using no-follow.* It’s time for some grass-roots attempts to devalue certain dictates from web power by simply ignoring them.
You don’t want to play in the web community?* Fine, you’re not invited.* Now, run along and claw the eyes out of your competitors in the attempt to reach the #1 Google spot for “paris hilton”.* We’ll be over here, where the real web is.
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