The new nofollow tag quickly became known as a "linkcondom," and experts at conferences across the world started hailing it for its simple yet powerful purpose. Not surprisingly, the "linkcondom" attribute -- much like the occasional cheap or...
Links linkcondom" (see LinkCondom: The But far from a joke, I later
wrote a follow up
on how the linkcondom 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...
Of course, redirecting doesn't always work to wreck link love or be a linkcondom in the way of nofollow. Others don't think link selling, even if done for search ranking purposes, should necessarily be considered bad.
More about this in my past article, More On LinkCondom experimentally" or
not. But as I wrote before, it is a perfect way to link to other sites without worry that you'll be penalized by doing
so with search engines.
Condom & Blogger Worries Over Nofollow. It's because you're a person that lots of people link to with the word "Robert" in your name. For more on the nofollow debate and how nofollow goes beyond blogs, see my recent post More On Link
Earlier, I posted about the LinkCondom 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.
While debate over the usefulness of the new nofollow link attributes continues, a parody site called LinkCondom has just gone up
to stress some of the issues beyond blogging that the attribute raises.