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Originally Posted by Webnauts
The rel= is a html specification Basic HTML data types but the "nofollow" attribute not. This attribute was designed by Google’s head of webspam team Matt Cutts and Jason Shellen from Blogger.com in 2005. Just to avoid any misunderstandings. |
How can anyone outside of the W3C add an attribute to the href?
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Originally Posted by Webnauts
Can you please provide us a couple here so we can have a look?
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No... I'm not a rat. I have used the W3C sponsor page as an example in the past. Kgun has also posted about links from Orgs that he thought were paid (since they are labelled as so) that do pass juice. That is my problem with the use of the term "paid links" as what one person thinks is paid may not be the intent of the author.
"NoFollow" is an
attribute of the robots element but rel= like the align= could have several values for the attribute. It could be an attribute value of several elements if "recognized" as an
attribute value by the spec. I prefer that attributes be under the control of the W3C (the recognized body) so that it doesn't get used at the whims of SE's and can be uniformly implemented. Presently rel="nofollow" is not used in the same way by all engines. So if I use the attribute for "paid links" when my intent is to trust the link then... I've needlessly buggered it for Yahoo! and MSN in order to follow the wishes of Google. IMO, not fair to anyone but Google and is actually expecting me to act in direct conflict with my true intent which is to indicate trust in the resource
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Originally Posted by Webnauts
Again incorrect. According the W3C specs <META name="ROBOTS" content="NOFOLLOW"> means that a robot should not analyze a document for links, and not for preventing passing PR juice: Performance, Implementation, and Design Notes |
Agreed it's a bastardized tag that is not valid html so how can they say it has to be used for this that or whatever a SE needs. If everybody starts bastardizing the spec then it becomes useless. So how is not analyzing a doc not preventing it from passing juice? I'd say that is semantics.
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Originally Posted by Webnauts
Can you explain what you do mean exactly with IBLs hurting?
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Anyone and their brother can buy links and point them wherever they choose. So if I want to screw with you I won't bother cloaking etc. and risking my site. I'll develop a list of paid links submit to them and a few other places that will toxify your link profile and ensure negative effects are passed by the paid links. Remember no one checks to see if the submission came from the owner.