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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...
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 they meant no harm.
Of course, redirecting doesn't always work to wreck link love or be a link condom in the way of nofollow. The second link is from this Yahoo Directory category that links to the site. Others don't think link selling, even if done for search...
More about this in my past article, More On Link Condom experimentally" or not. Is WordPress now a "bad neighborhood," something search engines say not to link to lest you be penalized. But as I wrote before, it is a perfect way to link to other...
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 Link Condom site that went up, which pokes some fun at the new nofollow attribute. And below, my full comments on the non-blogging issues about nofollow that Link Condom highlights:
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.
