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Yesterday, Digg announced that it was changing the way it handles some links with regards to the nofollow attribute. The point of the changes is to cut down on Digg spam. Digg is now adding rel="nofollow" to any external link that they aren’t sure they can "vouch for." This means:
– External links from comments
– External links from user profiles
Digg announced today that it has tweaked its policy on the nofollow attribute on external links.
"We’ve made a few changes to the way Digg links to external sites that may impact some folks in the SEO community," says Digg’s John Quinn. "These changes reduce the incentive to post spammy content (or link spam) to Digg, while still flowing ’search engine juice’ freely to quality content."
Bing’s webmaster forum has a number of posts where people are complaining that Bing will not index their content. Some people, however, are having the opposite problem. Content that they do not want indexed by Bing is being indexed by Bing, despite the webmaster’s efforts to keep it out of the search engine.
PageRank sculpting is a pretty advanced SEO tactic, and it has been widely used by SEO pros since Google’s Matt Cutts described its use on YouTube, giving the strategy the official green light. At SMX Advanced in Seattle, the same harbinger of Google insider information offered a stunning revelation: Google changed the way it handled link structures intended for sculpting.
Matt Cutts says his pinging of Twitter cofounder Evan Williams about nofollowing Twitter bio links was more of a heads-up than an imperative straight from the Googleplex.
A comprehensive guide to Google’s “nofollow” attribute, its significance, impact on SEO, and implementation.
A few weeks ago, there was a lively exchange on Search Engine Land about using the “nofollow” link attribute to sculpt PageRank.
Flickr has recently added nofollow tags to the links present within its Web site observed Jeff Muendel & Brian Brown. This change came to light during a review of a Flickr account. The picture portal has long been considered one of the most attractive social media entities amongst few others for improving inbound links to a given site.
HTML5 appeared as first working draft at the World Wide Web Consortium.
There is no such thing as a free link. No matter what the person who is selling you it tells you. And the web will always adapt to make it so. Even if its hard work.
Barry Schwartz posted Get A Free Link From Wired today on an SEO blog, noting that:
