Right I have decided all the nofollow malarkey is far to ambiguous. I mean people are getting so paranoid they nofollow everything. I mean some people are paranoid about reviewing a product incase Google perceives it as a paid review and therefore they nofollow. More and more blogs nofollow all comments, getting a link from a big authority site is nigh on impossible. I feel it is almost getting to the point if a link is not nofollowed it is perceived as spam.
So I think nofollows should change. People are flawed and it is likely people will nofollow links that don’t need it and vice versa.
Instead of the nofollow we should describe what the link is and then Google in all thei great wisdom should decide what to do. Some example maybe
- Rel="advert" – Someone paid me to place this link. Don’t follow or pass any juice
- Rel="Review" – This link is for a review. Follow if the review appears natural. Doing 10+ reviews a day all positive in non relavent niches then no follow
- Rel="Friend" – Linking to a friend, it should be followed but it is not actually a editorial vote.
- Rel="charity" – This person donated money for a good cause. Pass a small amount of juice.
- Rel="block" – 100% block this link. I am linking to a bad person.
- rel="employer" – I work for this person, I have no option but to link to them. Don’t pass as much link juice.
- rel="beer" – I once got drunk with this person, he bought me a beer at some point during the night. I don’t think this is a paid link but I will let you decide Mr Googlebot
- rel="sex" – We had sex once, I didn’t pay her, she didn’t pay me, its all good isn’t it? Your decision again Google.
- rel="smalltalk" – We met once, had small talk, is this an editorial vote or not?
- rel="digitalpoint" = This link belongs to the digital point co-op. Nofollow it unless it is pointing to Money Expert, Ocean Finance or Money Web
