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Nofollow – the eternal issue

The last few days has seen the issue of nofollow, which is an addition to the link-tag which keeps the searchengines from inheriting of linkjuice, make its circles through the German SEO-blogs due to its second anniversary. It is fitting that just today, the English version of Wikipedia, to be exact its founder Jimbo Wales, has, once again and by himself, fitted the whole of it with this tag.

This is a fitting reason for me to talk about an issue that has been irritating me on this blog for a while: Linkmarters. Once it find a blog with some PageRank, the common Linkmarter, which usually answers to the names of “Casino” or “Ratenkredit” (installment credit), will load off its bland comments. Never is there any connection to the subject and the value of the comments are virtually zero. Seeing that I do not wish to participate in the nofollow-theater, I introduced a solution on this blog where only those links will receive a link which I deem to be trustworthy and useful – all the others go home empty-handed. To make this clear: I have no problems with competitors or sites with foreign topics who are being liked from a useful comment. The thing that gets on my nerves are those who are just out to score some quick linklove.