Comments on: Taking Nofollow to the Next Level

By: Scott

Scott — Thu, 10 Sep 2009 23:54:24 +0000

Sure he would… wouldn’t he?!?

By: Andy Beard

Andy Beard — Thu, 10 Sep 2009 23:09:49 +0000

Reset vector

You don’t think Matt Cutts would tell the whole story do you?

By: Scott

Scott — Wed, 09 Sep 2009 15:02:25 +0000

In case anyones wondering, a month after I wrote this, at SMX Advanced in Seattle, Matt Cutts announced that Google had changed the rules, and putting a nofollow on one link, did NOT let you allocate it’s link juice elsewhere. Instead, your link juice that doesn’t get passed basically just “evaporates”.

This basically killed my whole plugin, and I pulled it from distribution. Bummer – but you know what? In my thoroughly UNscientific tests, it’s still working as it always did…

By: Scott Hendison

Scott Hendison — Thu, 07 May 2009 14:00:18 +0000

Just a note to Andy – We added “meta” as an option too now, which nofollows all the archives links on a page, but you’re still right, and that can be managed elsewhere…

By: Andy Beard

Andy Beard — Fri, 01 May 2009 13:59:34 +0000

Just grab the functionality of my nofollow those dupes plugin. Effectively all I am doing is adding nofollow in the content on all but single/page permalinks.
Archive pages frequently have external links, and you need to control home page links for things like sitelinks and juice flow.

By: Scott

Scott — Thu, 30 Apr 2009 22:44:06 +0000

Thanks – and yes, I suppose it *could* be used to selfishly hoard link juice, but that’s certainly not my intention.

Just like any tool, there will be those that misuse it, unfortunately, but that’s their choice. However, there’s certainly no reason we can’t be “selfish” with our own internal link juice, is there? Leaving desired externals followed is of course the preferred option!

By: John Sullivan

John Sullivan — Thu, 30 Apr 2009 22:31:41 +0000

cool plugin good to see some fresh thought into an idea BUT since every link on my site is followed and I don’t like bloggers that try to selfishly sculpt page rank etc I will just say
Nice blog
Stumbled

By: Scott

Scott — Thu, 30 Apr 2009 21:54:58 +0000

Thanks for commenting Andy – I do agree that archives and categories are more important as a rule, and I’ve seen some good follow control on a plugin called Platinum SEO – it’s almost identical to All-in-One SEO, but there are more options like you’re referring to. Here’s a short video comparison I did about a week ago that compares the two. – (I’ll have to look up what “content widgets” are)

By: Andy Beard

Andy Beard — Thu, 30 Apr 2009 20:38:22 +0000

The big problem is I now have 13 different widget areas which I can control whether they display on a page or not, plus I also use in “content widgets”, and loads of other things.

I have used both the add link attribute plugin, and custom filters to do other things, plus I filter specific external domains.

I think the most important palaces to manage link attributes are not the permalink pages, but all the various archives.

Looking forward to having a play