Stackoverflow abuses nofollow (2011)

Re:Stackoverflow abuses nofollow (2011) by codinghorror on Monday November 12, 2012 @08:27PM (#4775780)

This was also the exact time of all the Google Panda tweaks and the fallout from Google starting to penalize creative commons scrapers of Stack Overflow content. There were a lot of balls in the air and only a few of them were ours, so we wanted to be careful.

When Google is 90% of your traffic, you REALLY REALLY REALLY do not want to get on their bad side, even accidentally, so I can hope you understand why we wanted to be cautious to the extreme here. If Google decides you're not doing things right, it is literally a business ending move.

Unless your VCs and investors are cool with you losing, y'know, ninety percent of your traffic.

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Re:Stackoverflow abuses nofollow (2011) by patio11 on Tuesday November 13, 2012 @01:30AM (#4776744)

Somebody please remind the community about this post the next time someone says "You only have to care about Google algorithms if you're a fly-by-night spam site."

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Re:Stackoverflow abuses nofollow (2011) by groovecoder on Tuesday November 13, 2012 @03:49PM (#4780510)

Of course, if/when there is a SO-penalizing bug in Stack Overflow or Google code, no-one will be able to fix it since they can't Google for Stack Overflow answers! ;)

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