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Re: Twitter Nofollow

Luiz Monografias — Mon, 07 Apr 2008 19:06:01 -0000

It's really a pity. I liked Twitter a lot and I stopped to use it after the nofollow stablishment. And I did the same with Wikipedia.

If we think in the reasons of nofollow, it makes me nerve even more, due to the fact that only Google can gain and not anyone.

The same with blogs. I own some to generate content and traffic and I wanted to dofollow it because I believe that this is a reward to the person that read my post and stopped by to say something.

Of course I manage all my comments and this is the point that determine internet quality: personal control.

Why nofollow every links if its so easy to flag a spam post, comment, hub, squidoo or others? I think that after you've written this excelent post we could see the results of Twitter's option: much less traffic, posts and comments.

Spammers will always exist, with nofollow or dofollow.

Re: Twitter Nofollow

Luiz Monografias — Mon, 07 Apr 2008 19:06:01 -0000

It's really a pity. I liked Twitter a lot and I stopped to use it after the nofollow stablishment. And I did the same with Wikipedia.

If we think in the reasons of nofollow, it makes me nerve even more, due to the fact that only Google can gain and not anyone.

The same with blogs. I own some to generate content and traffic and I wanted to dofollow it because I believe that this is a reward to the person that read my post and stopped by to say something.

Of course I manage all my comments and this is the point that determine internet quality: personal control.

Spammers will always exist, with nofollow or dofollow.

Re: Twitter Nofollow

Alex — Tue, 08 Jan 2008 17:21:10 -0000

It's a shame, there are a lot of methods to disable spam from comments, and links beside "No Follow", I really like technorati, now I'm going to test "Twitter", but I think I will not use it very often...

Condom Man, that's it, nofollow =! web 2.0.

Sorry for my english
best regards

Re: Twitter Nofollow

Alex — Tue, 08 Jan 2008 17:21:10 -0000

Condom Man, that's it, nofollow =! web 2.0.

Sorry for my english
best regards

Re: Twitter Nofollow

Condom Man — Mon, 03 Dec 2007 03:42:46 -0000

I think we'll eventually get to the point where everyone uses nofollow and no one gives any juice to any one; an internet full of hermits. Nofollow is the antithesis of web 2.0.

Re: Twitter Nofollow

Condom Man — Mon, 03 Dec 2007 03:42:46 -0000

I think we'll eventually get to the point where everyone uses nofollow and no one gives any juice to any one; an internet full of hermits. Nofollow is the antithesis of web 2.0.

Re: Twitter Nofollow

Dennison Uy - Graphic Designer — Sun, 28 Oct 2007 02:09:09 -0000

Ok sorry if this is a bit old but how the hell do you post links in Twitter???

Re: Twitter Nofollow

Dennison Uy - Graphic Designer — Sun, 28 Oct 2007 02:09:09 -0000

Ok sorry if this is a bit old but how the hell do you post links in Twitter???

Re: Twitter Nofollow

AndyBeard — Tue, 21 Aug 2007 13:29:02 -0000

Doug

People have been touting for months that Twitter is an alternative to blogging.

If I voted for your site in Twitter rather than writing a full blog post, you wouldn't gain any juice though maybe a little traffic.

Twitter is still allowing indexing of the content, without counting external links. Links are part of the content yet it is being modified without specific consent, and I don't even think that was announced, it was just discovered.

On the flip side, I have also written that Twitter might be a legal liability for any kind of business use, so it just becomes an IM.

Re: Twitter Nofollow

AndyBeard — Tue, 21 Aug 2007 13:29:02 -0000

Doug

People have been touting for months that Twitter is an alternative to blogging.

If I voted for your site in Twitter rather than writing a full blog post, you wouldn't gain any juice though maybe a little traffic.

On the flip side, I have also written that Twitter might be a legal liability for any kind of business use, so it just becomes an IM.

Re: Twitter Nofollow

lucia — Tue, 21 Aug 2007 13:01:38 -0000

Doug,
Could you elaborate? What are the higher priority things the SEO community should be thinking about?

Re: Twitter Nofollow

lucia — Tue, 21 Aug 2007 13:01:38 -0000

Doug,
Could you elaborate? What are the higher priority things the SEO community should be thinking about?

Re: Twitter Nofollow

Henri @ B2B Sales Blog — Tue, 21 Aug 2007 09:03:08 -0000

For me one of the major benefits of Twitter has been to extend my network and interact even more closely with readers of my blog and others. I've been able to sore the front pages of Dutch social news sites on occasion, just by people voting for articles I had linked to in a tweet in Twitter. So for me there is also a significant traffic benefit, like you also concluded at the end of your article. Too bad that we lose the "vote of editorial approval" as you call is.

Re: Twitter Nofollow

Henri @ B2B Sales Blog — Tue, 21 Aug 2007 09:03:08 -0000

Re: Twitter Nofollow

Doug Heil — Tue, 21 Aug 2007 08:19:58 -0000

I'm not really sure what the big deal is with the SEO industry and nofollow. So what if a link is nofollow? Don't you all post in places because you want to "teach" others? Or do you simply post for your own self-interests? NOfollow was implemented by Google because a link leading from one site to another site should "only" count when the "owner" of the linking site is vouching/voting for "your" site because it has great content on the page or the site and the link is a good resource for the linking site's visitors. That's it. Period. Nothing more.

Why does this extremely simple concept lost in our industry? I have NO idea. In my mind, ALL these social media sites should use the nofollow tag. By not doing so, the owners are risking "big-time" the possibility of linking to a bad neighborhood.

So my question is; why does our industry always think about this link juice stuff when there is soooo many other high priority things they should be doing?

I'm not getting the nofollow cry-babies, sorry.

Re: Twitter Nofollow

Doug Heil — Tue, 21 Aug 2007 08:19:58 -0000

So my question is; why does our industry always think about this link juice stuff when there is soooo many other high priority things they should be doing?

I'm not getting the nofollow cry-babies, sorry.

Re: Twitter Nofollow

AndyBeard — Sun, 19 Aug 2007 14:17:45 -0000

People reciprocate invitations from people they don't know to extend their own reach.

It is fairly easy to spot the people who have built up massive following, though not everyone is listed on Twitterholic now.
http://www.twitterholic.com/

Re: Twitter Nofollow

AndyBeard — Sun, 19 Aug 2007 14:17:45 -0000

People reciprocate invitations from people they don't know to extend their own reach.

It is fairly easy to spot the people who have built up massive following, though not everyone is listed on Twitterholic now.
http://www.twitterholic.com/

Re: Twitter Nofollow

Guest — Sun, 19 Aug 2007 13:34:42 -0000

I use twitter religiously, but not so much for marketing - I wasn't aware that it had much benefit to spammers as I receive most of my tweets via SMS, etc... Is it really so bad that they need to implement this at this point? or is this some kind of preemptive strike against something that hasn't happened yet?

Re: Twitter Nofollow

Guest — Sun, 19 Aug 2007 13:34:42 -0000

Re: Twitter Nofollow

Taree — Thu, 16 Aug 2007 03:29:07 -0000

NoFollow is handy within your own site to block just or "noise" pages that hold very little value, for instance i use rel-nofollow on my forums calendar.php as there's thousands of duplicate pages.

However when you pull a Wikipedia and start basically saying, thanks for writing this article and providing content for our site now we are big and don't value your link or the extra subject matter you have.

Dissapointing.

Re: Twitter Nofollow

Taree — Thu, 16 Aug 2007 03:29:07 -0000

NoFollow is handy within your own site to block just or "noise" pages that hold very little value, for instance i use rel-nofollow on my forums calendar.php as there's thousands of duplicate pages.

Dissapointing.

Re: Twitter Nofollow

Bodybuilding Forum — Thu, 16 Aug 2007 00:20:08 -0000

If every site(or most) removed nofollows then we would be back to square one and spam would be out of control. It is great though when some bloggers remove it. Most people flock to those sites that do that, just consider it as being in "the know".

Re: Twitter Nofollow

Bodybuilding Forum — Thu, 16 Aug 2007 00:20:08 -0000

Re: Twitter Nofollow

Erin — Wed, 15 Aug 2007 20:52:25 -0000

Is there a Beginning Blogger's Guide to NoFollow that I can read to explain what this is? Thank-you.