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Re:Evolving “nofollow” – new ways to identify the nature of ... by kylecordes on Tuesday September 10, 2019 @03:50PM (#20932845)
A related source of great frustration: put some good stuff on the web. Lots of people link to it but almost entirely from social media platforms where every link is a nofollow. Somebody else working on gaming the system with SEO makes a less valuable and useful thing, but obtains (by subterfuge or diligent direct asking) some non-nofollow links. Your high-quality content will be outranked in search results by the other less-high-quality quality content.

A reasonable improvement to this, to reinvigorate the hyperlink: social media platforms could stop using nofollow for links put in by users who themselves have built up a degree of reputation.

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Re:Evolving “nofollow” – new ways to identify the nature of ... by alxmdev on Tuesday September 10, 2019 @04:53PM (#20933609)
It really does seem hard to get visitors these days, even for original niche content. The first page of Google search results is half social/video/news carousels instead of genuine long-term content, and a lot of the other links point to repetitive articles published by generic big-name websites that never really add anything new.
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Re:Evolving “nofollow” – new ways to identify the nature of ... by 9588 on Wednesday September 11, 2019 @04:33AM (#20937764)
This is the point of nofollow, to get rid of small websites and to prevent them. The spam story is nonsens, it does nothing spam protection related.
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Re:Evolving “nofollow” – new ways to identify the nature of ... by throwaway2048 on Tuesday September 10, 2019 @05:26PM (#20933963)
The thing is, all this really does is promote spamming and self promotion, its of no real direct benefit to the user.
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