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]]> By: Sebastian http://sebastians-pamphlets.com/blogger-abuses-rel-nofollow-due-to-ignorance/#comment-138 Sebastian Thu, 19 Jul 2007 13:13:00 +0000 http://sebastians-pamphlets.com/blogger-abuses-rel-nofollow-due-to-ignorance/#comment-138 Dave, thanks for stopping by and the kind words. I'm glad you like my pamphlets, or at least most of them ;)<br/><br/>I don't think the Blogger folks call their clients minor retards. Ok, every developer fights the insanity of bloody end users and swears every now and then, but not every software engineer is kinda bastard operator from hell. I believe that they just didn't get it, and that they desperately need education on the semantics of the nofollow beast.<br/><br/>Well, the comment page belongs to the blog, because it handles the blog's commenting. Technically it's on the blogger.com domain, but that's just because Blogger didn't manage it to integrate commenting into the templates (yet). It's not exactly wrong to call this another flaw.<br/><br/>However, the point is that they have two links to the post on that page, one is castrated and the other one (a few pixels below the first one) is clean. That makes no sense and demonstrates their nofollow-bafflement.<br/><br/>My nofollow obsession may be maniac in your eyes, and to some extent you're right, it's nitpicking at least. I think that rel-nofollow in its current shape is a desaster, because only a few search geeks know how to use it. The average Webmaster doesn't care about it because its misleading in itself, and even a team of top notch developers within Google didn't bother to learn its semantics, hence they're throwing nofollow crap on links like confetti.<br/><br/>I respect folks commenting here, and I strongly believe that you don't deserve a link condom when you contribute valued content to my blog. When you insert a link to your site within this content to bring your point home, you deserve the link love. <br/><br/>There's nothing to say against a mechanism to devalue links dropped by users on unattended pages. But this blog is not unattended. I've declared that by enabling comment moderation and captchas, and that should tell Blogger that I'm aware of comment spamming and that I can handle it myself. I don't need no insane nofollow-confetti. And that goes for a gazillion of other Blogger-blogs too.<br/><br/>Cheers<br/>Sebastian Dave, thanks for stopping by and the kind words. I’m glad you like my pamphlets, or at least most of them ;)

I don’t think the Blogger folks call their clients minor retards. Ok, every developer fights the insanity of bloody end users and swears every now and then, but not every software engineer is kinda bastard operator from hell. I believe that they just didn’t get it, and that they desperately need education on the semantics of the nofollow beast.

Well, the comment page belongs to the blog, because it handles the blog’s commenting. Technically it’s on the blogger.com domain, but that’s just because Blogger didn’t manage it to integrate commenting into the templates (yet). It’s not exactly wrong to call this another flaw.

However, the point is that they have two links to the post on that page, one is castrated and the other one (a few pixels below the first one) is clean. That makes no sense and demonstrates their nofollow-bafflement.

My nofollow obsession may be maniac in your eyes, and to some extent you’re right, it’s nitpicking at least. I think that rel-nofollow in its current shape is a desaster, because only a few search geeks know how to use it. The average Webmaster doesn’t care about it because its misleading in itself, and even a team of top notch developers within Google didn’t bother to learn its semantics, hence they’re throwing nofollow crap on links like confetti.

I respect folks commenting here, and I strongly believe that you don’t deserve a link condom when you contribute valued content to my blog. When you insert a link to your site within this content to bring your point home, you deserve the link love.

There’s nothing to say against a mechanism to devalue links dropped by users on unattended pages. But this blog is not unattended. I’ve declared that by enabling comment moderation and captchas, and that should tell Blogger that I’m aware of comment spamming and that I can handle it myself. I don’t need no insane nofollow-confetti. And that goes for a gazillion of other Blogger-blogs too.

Cheers
Sebastian

]]> By: Dave http://sebastians-pamphlets.com/blogger-abuses-rel-nofollow-due-to-ignorance/#comment-136 Dave Thu, 19 Jul 2007 05:55:00 +0000 http://sebastians-pamphlets.com/blogger-abuses-rel-nofollow-due-to-ignorance/#comment-136 <b>Does blogger think their bloggers are minor retards?</b><br/><br/>Umm..yes they do. Because in most instances they would be right. Look around at most people using Blogger . And I'm a Blogger user myself, but let's face it, they aren't a smart bunch on the whole. I wouldn't trust 'em either. Seriously. :-)<br/><br/>If being able to un-nofollow links in the body of a comment is important, might as well make the move away from Blogger now. It will never, ever, happen.<br/><br/><b>When I've submitted a comment, the link to the post is nofollowed.<br/>This page belongs to the blog, so why the fudge does Blogger nofollow navigational links?</b><br/><br/>That page does NOT belong to the blog, it's on blogger.com. That's probably why it's nofollowed.<br/><br/>I don't understand all the hubbub myself. I got several blogs on Blogger, they work fine, they get links and pagerank and googlejuice (whatever you want to call it) just fine. I have no desire to follow links in the comments (on my own blogs, or comments I submit to other blogs) whether I have approved them or not, it's just such a non-issue I can't understand why anyone cares. I know this whole do-follow movement has stirred some people up, it's just silly if you ask me.<br/><br/>I've read some of your stuff before, and seen some posts at the group, and agree with/or think you write good stuff.<br/><br/>Just don't agree on this one. :-)<br/><br/>But to each his own.<br/>Cheers! Does blogger think their bloggers are minor retards?

Umm..yes they do. Because in most instances they would be right. Look around at most people using Blogger . And I’m a Blogger user myself, but let’s face it, they aren’t a smart bunch on the whole. I wouldn’t trust ‘em either. Seriously. :-)

If being able to un-nofollow links in the body of a comment is important, might as well make the move away from Blogger now. It will never, ever, happen.

When I’ve submitted a comment, the link to the post is nofollowed.
This page belongs to the blog, so why the fudge does Blogger nofollow navigational links?

That page does NOT belong to the blog, it’s on blogger.com. That’s probably why it’s nofollowed.

I don’t understand all the hubbub myself. I got several blogs on Blogger, they work fine, they get links and pagerank and googlejuice (whatever you want to call it) just fine. I have no desire to follow links in the comments (on my own blogs, or comments I submit to other blogs) whether I have approved them or not, it’s just such a non-issue I can’t understand why anyone cares. I know this whole do-follow movement has stirred some people up, it’s just silly if you ask me.

I’ve read some of your stuff before, and seen some posts at the group, and agree with/or think you write good stuff.

Just don’t agree on this one. :-)

But to each his own.
Cheers!

]]> By: Cafe_Cafe http://sebastians-pamphlets.com/blogger-abuses-rel-nofollow-due-to-ignorance/#comment-113 Cafe_Cafe Sat, 23 Jun 2007 03:02:00 +0000 http://sebastians-pamphlets.com/blogger-abuses-rel-nofollow-due-to-ignorance/#comment-113 That kind of info is really valuable. I´ll change my template right now to follow comments.<br/>Thanks a lot and feel free to visit me any day to have some fun.<br/><br/><a HREF="http://FreeOnlineFun.blogspot.com" REL="nofollow">Entretenimiento Online</a> That kind of info is really valuable. I´ll change my template right now to follow comments.
Thanks a lot and feel free to visit me any day to have some fun.

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]]> By: Andy Beard http://sebastians-pamphlets.com/blogger-abuses-rel-nofollow-due-to-ignorance/#comment-101 Andy Beard Sat, 09 Jun 2007 07:04:00 +0000 http://sebastians-pamphlets.com/blogger-abuses-rel-nofollow-due-to-ignorance/#comment-101 well I have hinted a few times that andybeard.eu is still looked on as being blogspot ;)<br/><br/>My feed was managed by feedburner, and when I moved over, I kept the same feed.<br/><br/>The time it takes to make the switch is significant, maybe you should just pay someone to do it for you.<br/><br/>That is what Kieron did<br/><br/>http://www.here.org.uk/2007/06/new-blog-design-live.html<br/><br/>No hate ;) well I have hinted a few times that andybeard.eu is still looked on as being blogspot ;)

My feed was managed by feedburner, and when I moved over, I kept the same feed.

The time it takes to make the switch is significant, maybe you should just pay someone to do it for you.

That is what Kieron did

http://www.here.org.uk/2007/06/new-blog-design-live.html

No hate ;)

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