Not surprisingly, the "link condom" attribute -- much like the occasional cheap or damaged contraceptive device -- doesn't always work. The new nofollow tag quickly became known as a "link condom," and experts at conferences across the world...
Links link condom" (see But far from a joke, I later wrote a follow up on how the link condom parody site was a good jumping off point on how nofollow had many other uses, including as a means for those selling links to tell search engines that...
More about this in my past article, More On Link Condom experimentally" or not. Some have argued the statement above suggests Mullenweg didn't realize this content would be seen as spamming the search engines, nor apparently that hiding links...
Earlier, I posted about the Link Condom site that went up, which pokes some fun at the new nofollow attribute. If that's what you wanted, you'd better know they've put a "condom" in the form of nofollow around that link.
