So we were seeing the current growth in usage
Posted: Sat Dec 28, 2024 5:49 am
There is no overwhelming trend towards this and no fundamental reason why anyone would recommend it. With Twitter (as short-hand for any social service allowing micro-updates), however, not only is there no choice but to publish on a 3rd party domain, but with Twitter especially, many many people are creating link-worthy content scattered across that domain (like option #6 above). This is resulting in a massive number of links to twitter.com (see its position on the SEOmoz top domains list) and incredibly well-linked profiles (as internal links on Twitter such as @willcritchlow are nonofo).
Incidentally, who would have thought that you list of egypt cell phone numbers could really create link-worthy content in 140 characters? Well, it turns out you can - anything that gets re-tweeted is essentially proving its linkworthiness - see below.] Imagine for a second that instead of Twitter.com, the thing becoming hugely popular was micro-blogging software (a kind of Wordpress for Twitter). but instead of being =/stephenfry, Mr. Fry was posting his updates at www.
The usage was the same. Individuals could choose to remove the nofollow from their links to their friends and other sites. We would be seeing an explosion in creation of hugely-interlinked small pages - a change to the layout of the internet as big the explosion in blogging a few years ago. We are seeing this change - but it's all happening at Twitter.com. Increasing use of nofollow for a range of purposes Google lists the three main intended uses of nofollow as: Linking to untrusted content Paid links Crawl prioritisation (typically linking to yourself with nofollow) Leaving aside for a second the ability / likelihood of webmasters using nofollow correctly (which means that the search engines need to work even with broken implementations just as they often rank HTML code that doesn't validate), there are two big uses of nofollow that are breaking the model: Complete "silo-isation" of large sites Domain owner not trusting trusted content authors' links "Silo-isation" Disregarding the fact that I just made that word up, there is a very real trend of powerful sites nofollowing all (or nearly all) outbound links even though they are the very definition of editorial links.
Incidentally, who would have thought that you list of egypt cell phone numbers could really create link-worthy content in 140 characters? Well, it turns out you can - anything that gets re-tweeted is essentially proving its linkworthiness - see below.] Imagine for a second that instead of Twitter.com, the thing becoming hugely popular was micro-blogging software (a kind of Wordpress for Twitter). but instead of being =/stephenfry, Mr. Fry was posting his updates at www.
The usage was the same. Individuals could choose to remove the nofollow from their links to their friends and other sites. We would be seeing an explosion in creation of hugely-interlinked small pages - a change to the layout of the internet as big the explosion in blogging a few years ago. We are seeing this change - but it's all happening at Twitter.com. Increasing use of nofollow for a range of purposes Google lists the three main intended uses of nofollow as: Linking to untrusted content Paid links Crawl prioritisation (typically linking to yourself with nofollow) Leaving aside for a second the ability / likelihood of webmasters using nofollow correctly (which means that the search engines need to work even with broken implementations just as they often rank HTML code that doesn't validate), there are two big uses of nofollow that are breaking the model: Complete "silo-isation" of large sites Domain owner not trusting trusted content authors' links "Silo-isation" Disregarding the fact that I just made that word up, there is a very real trend of powerful sites nofollowing all (or nearly all) outbound links even though they are the very definition of editorial links.