Andrej Koelewijn

1/19/2005

The register on google’s rel=”nofollow”

Filed under: — site admin @ 1:14 pm

The register has a piece on google’s new link attribute to prevent comment spam: Google’s No-Google tag blesses the Balkanized web

Overall is a pretty negative piece:

It’s effectively declaring PageRank™ dead for weblogs, in an attempt to stem the problem.
and:
“If such a tag were used widespread against comments and trackbacks, then wouldn’t this end up kneecaping blogs, by killing their intricate networks of interlinks?”

I don’t think the impacts are as negative as this, if you only use the nofollow attribute in comments. Blog entries can still link to other blog entries, and these will still be followed by google’s spiders.

2 Responses to “The register on google’s rel=”nofollow””

  1. Anonymous Says:

    Your feed is not readable in SharpReader.

    See http://feedvalidator.org/check.cgi?url=http%3A%2F%2Fandrej.racchvs.com%2Ffeed%2Frss2%2F

  2. Andrej Says:

    I’ll see if i can fix the feed. Btw, I’m also using sharpreader but i have no problems reading my own feed, sharpreader is displaying the messages without problems.

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