I’ve heard talk about this for a couple weeks. I’m interested to see Google’s official response to this and more so, it’s implication. I know there have been a lot of questions and comments about pr, lately.

it is a good news or bad for us ?
some blog’s comments would be manage by human ,or the ‘nofollow’ tag.

Great information, too bad google keeps changing everything. I have noticed that a lot of sites jump around with google while msn and yahoo seem to keep an even pace as far as placement is concerned

Hey Mike or anyone who knows the answer, where did this information about Google changing no-follow links come from originally?

This is an excellent article.

Perhaps it is time for Google to consider the devaluation of inbound links altogether instead of constantly trying to manage it. Fresh content, page views and time on site are a much better indications of relevancy instead of inbound links anyway.

Too much time is spent by webmasters on chasing down links in an effort to manipulate the SEPRS in my humble opinion.

Yes, its another attempt by google to stop SEO experts from taking away business from google adwords. A very informative article. We will discuss more on this on our blog on link building strategies.

Now the approach would be to remove the Nofollow so that the page you originally did not want to pass PR to would receive it and be able to pass PR to the rest of the site through internal linkage.

can you imagine yourselves compared to google. We look like a boat pushed from coast to coast by the big waves (google). What I’m trying to say is how do they really determine a relevant search if they were to apply this? And now they’re saying that we should focus on branding?!

the idea that googlebot is moving from 2D to 3D is huge.. on so many levels.. it’s hard to believe, but i’m beleiving.

yes the nofollow attribute was short sighted. yes sculpting is rendered ‘almost’ pointless.

just because links in comment sections (like here) have been around for a long time doesn’t mean that Google is going to build indexing and ranking around that stupid concept. there is a difference between comments(content) and links.

i think the idea is that any available form of navigation (hyperlink or js redirection or whatever else) away from a page means that related and unique content for the subject matter exists in other locations than the originating page as highlighted by the originating page itself. therefore the more navigational ‘controls’ a page contains the less likely it is an authority of the subject matter and it’s just one of many sources. whereas a page that has fewer nav controls off the page must be identifying itself as a tighter more authoratative source of info regarding the subject matter.

if this is true then Google is thinking… go ahead and have as many nav controls as you want… but we’re going to factor them all in. eventually webmasters will replace nofollows with NO LINKS.. except the important ones that simply need and deserve to be present.

… what did schmidty say.. the web is full of garbage?? uhh huhh

enjoy the freebie and paid links while you can.. and remember you helped give Google as much control as they have.. u know by using them for search, advertising, analytics, email, apps.. and then thinking m$ and privacy groups were stupid for claiming that Google might be overstepping…

This highlights more of what some folks have been saying since most site owners put their fortunes in the hands of search engines, selling out to the idea of PPC and page rank.

Search has become stale primarily because of search marketing as a business model. The easiest way to stop letting Google pull your strings is to simply quit worrying about search engines and focus on social aspects of marketing–the old word of mouth. Even looking forward to future PR and marketing models, it’s the one that will never change, never go away…unless people stop using the Internet. Evangelism, creating true believers and taking care of customers the way you wish those you do business with would take care of you…it’s so much less stressful and means less crap cropping up online.

It’s the job of search engines to find good, relevant content, not to dictate document formats, coding, marketing strategy. So many people have it wrong it is scary. So-called SEO experts really ought to change their titles to SMAs for Search Marketing Advocates–after all, all they’re really doing is making money off promulgating search engine policies. They work for Google, but Google laughs because it pays them a pittance off some clicks instead of a yearly salary–which they deserve for working so hard selling search “this” and search “that” to people.

Google has the greatest business scam going. It’s fooled millions into believing they need and depend on the company when it’s actually the other way around.

Code your pages to standards. Do what YOU think is appropriate with the attributes of your links, and quit worrying already. If you have the most popular site in your niche and Google doesn’t index your site or lists it last, Google will eventually have to make its engineers actually earn their pay or it will become irrelevant. There are many more new search engines out there that are doing search in more innovative and arguably better ways.

And really, I think most people are tired of Google AdWords and irrelevant and inappropriate contextual ads on scraped blogs. When I visit a new blog, if I see AdWords plastered about, I usually just close the browser tab/window and look elsewhere if I want good thinking and information to take in. Google’s business model is in large part funded by copyright infringers and spammers…why so many site admins and marketers want to be a part of that is beyond me. It’s the same sort of morally decrepit/irresponsible attitude that put us in a global financial crisis and had Apple letting a video game about shaking a baby to death hit the market.

Search engines are passing into irrelevance as things stand. If people are talking about, blogging about your site, passing links and spreading word of mouth, search engines will find your content…or not. People who are truly interested in some topic as it relates to you WILL find you if you actually have something worth saying.

Others will tell them.

Too many SEOs are spammers, unethical, and simply blogging crap so there’s some content of some sort of text off to the side of their ad spaces. They’re are those other sort of SEO’s, those hanging most tightly on every word of the biggest search engine, making money without regard for any business ethics beyond perhaps the thought that they did not rob someone at gunpoint to pay the light bill.