No-follow Needs to be Optional
by Sapphire (February 8, 2005)
Bloggers can now insert a no-follow tag to prevent spammers from benefiting when they comment on the blog just to get a backlink. Read here: real SEO .com (SEO News): Google will finally disregard comment links on blogs
And I’m all in favor of that. But am I missing something, or is this also going to prevent serious, quality commentators from getting their well-deserved backlinks? Isn’t the blogging community all about people reaching people? Is a method that hurts fellow bloggers along with spammers really the answer?
I don’t think so. It’s a great solution for bloggers who want to hog all their PR without sharing. For example, business bloggers. Yay.
I think we need to be skeptical. The best way to prevent your own murder is to kill yourself, but is that really the right solution? There has to be a way to get rid of spammers without devaluing the legitmate comment process.
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