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Rel="NOFOLLOW" Bookmarklet and NONOFOLLOW

ok … the new NOFOLLOW tag is reality and big ones like Wikipedia already implemented it on ALL their external links…

If you want an easy way to spot the NOFOLLOW tags, then add

this NOFOLLOW-BOOKMARKLET to your bookmarks… credits for this one go to RonPK

Well – and of course several people got shocked and felt pain because of the fast change… some even talk about a conspiracy – a sort of agreement or deal – between the big ones because it suddenly all went on soo fast…

That built the “NONOFOLLOW-group that claims several points that are true

  • nofollow does not prevent comment spam – it just marks ALL links of that type as “irrelevant” (but someone could also flag them as “bad”)
  • nofollow discriminates legitimate users as spammers
  • nofollow heists commentators’ earned attention
  • nofollow will not stop comment spam (yes – again)
  • nofollow could be used to further discriminate weblogs (well… or all that use that tag?)
  • nofollow prevents the Web from being a web
  • nofollow was developed in privacy with only search engines companies taking part in the discussion (uuuh ahhh – here we got it… nobody asked us and there it suddenly is… that’s why we hate it…)

    ok … check their site out – I implemented the NOFOLLOW already on the Visitorstats where the referrals are mostly cluttered with some crap

    and I prefer to continue remove comment spam instead of having up a few thousand Viagra, Levitra, Porn and other comments… even if the links don’t work they would mess up my site’s theme…

    and there the NONO-boys are right… it doesn’t stop the automatic posters …update 1/25: fixed bookmarklet code messed up my MT :-)

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Rel="NOFOLLOW" Bookmarklet and NONOFOLLOW

A very simple firefox hack also highlights the rel=nofollow links.

more at: http://www.wormus.com/aaron/stories/2005/02/06/google-rel-nofollow-roundup.html

The link is buried there, but works like a charm :)

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