The new nofollow tag quickly became known as a "link condom," and experts at conferences across the world started hailing it for its simple yet powerful purpose. Not surprisingly, the "link condom" attribute -- much like the occasional cheap or...
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. Yahoo says the same in the Wordpress Article Spam Being Removed post from Tim Mayer, Director of They worked in combination with what were called keywords related to...
Condom & Blogger Worries Over Nofollow. So this comment from Robert's post echoes with me: For more on the nofollow debate and how nofollow goes beyond blogs, see my recent post More On Link Interestingly, the NoNoFollow site that Scoble is...
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: