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...
Zawodny Says No to Link Condoms from Greg Boser covers how he received an email telling him that he could now buy links on Jeremy's site (Dave Naylor got a similar email) and the irony that those links don't make use of link condom in the way...
Of course, redirecting doesn't always work to wreck link love or be a link condom in the way of nofollow. Our SEW Forums thread Matt Cutts Comments On Reputable Sites & Link Selling explores some of the debate of this.
More about this in my past article, More On Link Condom experimentally" or not. The person who leads WordPress, Matthew Mullenweg, turns out to be traveling at the moment so hasn't been able to respond to the current debate.
Condom & Blogger Worries Over Nofollow. For more on the nofollow debate and how nofollow goes beyond blogs, see my recent post More On Link As with most debates, the truth is at neither extreme. Nofollow isn't a perfect solution to blogging comment...
While debate over the usefulness of the new nofollow link attributes continues, a parody site called Link Condom has just gone up to stress some of the issues beyond blogging that the attribute raises.
