“nofollow” is the new internet. What does this mean? Well it means that instead of the internet being organic and free it becomes controlled and limited to a small group. The big get bigger and the small, well they disappear into obscurity. If you don’t understand what “nofollow” refers to you may have landed at the wrong blog. This is a technical blog. If you do know then perhaps you have turned it on automatically assuming it would help you fight spam? Well, let me contend that this was a mistake. If your loyal site contributors refer to a link then slapping them with a “nofollow” is just discourteous. If you honestly think that the “nofollow” tag will discourage spambots then think again. Has it really? There are much better anti-spam mechanisms available. This site for instance only lets through a bare minimum amount of spam without need for moderation. The spambots don’t even know that your site is adding “nofollow” to their posts. They just keep coming back and posting, over and over. A human being who is taking the time to participate in your community deserves the internet right to link to relevant content. It’s the basis of the internet.
So think twice. Unless you want Facebook and Google to dictate all that is the future internet you may need to draw a line here.
What you say is to no follow the ‘nofollow’ ! I agree that each of the players is trying to play the game in their own way. But nofollow has to do to less with it, least something to do with the spams and absolutely nothing to do with the Web 2.0.
There is no right associated to me once I submit this comment. I cannot then claim for it. This thought can not always be appreciated. And if you think of some bad humans for nofollow then there are also bad bots to robots.txt.
The title of the post was meant to hint that the “real” new web is squeezing out individuals and small companies and creating an exclusive environment where only the big companies get attention. The “nofollow” tag on links that bloggers post in their comments is one cause of this. The internet website pagerank divide today resembles the disparity between classes in third world countries. The rich get richer and the poor get poorer. Anyone doing white hat SEO has noticed this. In fact we have clients that have had a web presence for over 10 years and consistently provided what their audience was seeking, however in the last 2 years their PageRank of 8 has dropped to 3. We only now are trying to help them, but we don’t make promises we can’t keep and this article points out some of the slime in our way. Even we recently had to change domains for similar reasons despite having been online for 15 years.
The Real Web 2.0-This is an important post it gives the information about “nofollow”which is the word which is often used to explian that “real”web is squeezing out the so said big companies are only excisting in the market the smaller companies are not having there share of profit or business that is to some extent correct but that cannot be fully blamed on the web 2.0 as the consumers are looking for variety and the smaller companies will surely sooner or later have there roll over the market and the days will change.
This is an important post it gives the information about “nofollow”which is the word which is often used to explian that “real”web is squeezing out the so said big companies are only excisting in the market the smaller companies are not having there share of profit or business that is to some extent correct but that cannot be fully blamed on the web 2.0 as the consumers are looking for variety and the smaller companies will surely sooner or later have there roll over the market and the days will change.