Mar 22
By
salwa, Filled under:
Rambling
It seems like the set-up for a bad joke, but try to consider the best nofollow tags analogy: Would you build a road to nowhere and then post a sign proclaiming “This Road Goes Nowhere!”? Or would you save all the wear and tear of building the road in the first place? The nofollow tag marks posts a warning sign along an internet path to nowhere. It either has no effect or it is redundant. Either way it serves no useful purpose…exactly like that road to nowhere.
Tech-savvy bloggers developed the so-called nofollow tag to prevent spammers from stealing their readers’ e-mail addresses and filling innocent people’s inboxes with junk. For the most part, nofollow tags have become obsolete, because spammers have invented sophisticated techniques for avoiding them, and the bloggers sometimes cheat themselves of opportunities to follow-up on loyal readers’ comments. If a dedicated blogger monitors and moderates the comments on her site, she doesn’t really need nofollow tags; she applies “the human test” instead.
Spammers will spam no matter what. It’s what they do. And bloggers will protect themselves far more effectively when they download a plug-in created specifically to get rid of spam comments and spammers. Also, if you are able to moderate your own blog yourself rather than creating nofollow tags, you will have much more success in getting rid of spammers and their comments left on your blog.
Many inexperienced web users use nofollow tags for all of their outgoing links as they assume this is what search engines are looking for; but in all honesty, they can’t make up their minds about the extra effort of inserting nofollow tags, because they seem to have no use in the long-run.
Nofollow tags can be counted as backlinks with some search engines. Therefore, if you are trying to build your website’s value, especially if you want to increase the site’s value by selling ads, then nofollow tags are of no use at all. For instance, if you’re planning to send out a lot of blog comments in order to produce backlinks, nofollow tags will defeat your purpose.
Spammers use blog comments in order to create “spammy” links. Everyone that posts in blog comments ends up suffering, because of these spammers. Posting your comment because you care about the blogger and her subject, you end-up unleashing an avalanche of spam. The good-hearted folks who invest thought and sweat in their websites and blogs. It’s just not fair to those that are trying to create business, friends, etc. within blog comments.
Nofollow tags honestly have no value at all. It means nothing if you use nofollow tags on any type of text, advertisements, and blogs. Nofollow tags mean nothing when it comes to search engine indexing. If a large directory was full of nofollow tags, it would ultimately be nothing because nofollow tags are practically nothing.
This is How I Feel About The NoFollowTags But Now over to you! Do You Follow?
I would love to hear some feedback from other bloggers about your experience with the DoFollow comments. Did you get a lot more spam? Messed up your Pagerank? Or did it help with traffic and comments?
. Hope you all had a great week. Mine was fine just too hectic as usual! Anyway aint got much to say other then I will release my new theme this week instead. So anyway here are this week round up post’s in the blogosphere. Enjoy!
