i found a theread on digitapoint to webmaster-talk.com ..


the thread title is : Forums with dofollow links


this is great !!!!!!!! at this point i had no idea that wtalk has dofollow rights

What a great FORUM !!

As far as I know webmaster-talk.com is a nofollow forum site before. I believe they made changes.

Originally Posted by deyu

i found a theread on digitapoint to webmaster-talk.com ..


the thread title is : Forums with dofollow links


this is great !!!!!!!! at this point i had no idea that wtalk has dofollow rights

What a great FORUM !!

i think all vbulletin forums have dofollow links

there is no such thing as "dofollow", there is a "nofollow" value for the rel attribute the presence of which may or may not tell SE not to count the link.

So given the mention on DP about this, probably means we will get more signature link spammers than before now.

Yeah, Looks like you are gunna have your hands full monitoring it.

DP is a dofollow forum as well. Maybe they'll stay where they are if they know that.. These lists pop up every other week on DP as well as lists of Dofollow blogs etc. etc.

SEO Forums are basically for knowledge purpose but some of them are use it as a source of website promotion. Just creating signature and spamming through useless posts.

Originally Posted by chrishirst

there is no such thing as "dofollow", there is a "nofollow" value for the rel attribute the presence of which may or may not tell SE not to count the link.

I think we all know this.... but the term dofollow can still be used when describing something that's not nofollow....

dofollow is ridiculous. If you want the search engine to follow the link then simply put it on the page like you would any other link.

Originally Posted by Lpspider

I think we all know this.... but the term dofollow can still be used when describing something that's not nofollow....

And therein lies the main problem with "making up" terms and names for "things".

Assuming that everybody knows what it means.

Yeah well web2.0 was CLEARLY defined when the term was coined and what most people mean when they say it today is TOTALLY different than what it was originally meant to represent (semantic web/social networking vs. seamless clientside server accesses through AJAX-like technology)


Nobody, even those who try, can "properly" define new words. They just happen, and get used frequently or not. Eventually if they become common enough they are added to the dictionary. You can't really control it.

Not quite what I'm getting at.

The expansion of the term "web 2.0" to encompass a "new style" of design AND the (over)use of existing technologies was simply the broadening of a scope.

What I'm saying about "dofollow" is that it adds extra and unnecessary ambiguity into the already murky waters of the nofollow value and it's use.

For one, it implies that links without the nofollow value added, are always going to be followed and possibly weighted by the search engines. When this is clearly NOT the case.
There are a good number of forums that do not show signatures to "guest" visitors and as SE bots are "guests", the link drops err sorry, signatures will never be followed regardless of the value of the rel attribute.

The one thing this whole industry does NOT need, is more mis-information been pumped into it. Though I do realise it is in the interests of some practitioners to keep the myths and mysteries alive.

As already spoken above, there is no dofollow. There is nofollow if there is a tag added. The other type is common on the world wide web.

Originally Posted by chrishirst

there is no such thing as "dofollow", there is a "nofollow" value for the rel attribute the presence of which may or may not tell SE not to count the link.

So given the mention on DP about this, probably means we will get more signature link spammers than before now.

ya, I get sick of seeing those threads about a list of blogs that are "dofollow"

I say we start a new word,, how about "seofollow"
okay everyone, start making threads or repling to link threads at dp and around the net asking for "seofollow" links

Originally Posted by Brandon

ya, I get sick of seeing those threads about a list of blogs that are "dofollow"

I say we start a new word,, how about "seofollow"
okay everyone, start making threads or repling to link threads at dp and around the net asking for "seofollow" links

I bet people would react on that too
They would consider that similar to the assumed dofollow links, although i have always seen just nofollow tags everywhere.

lol!

I agree, but most us use to understand those kind of words. . . changing dofollow to seofollow is great idea!

But what I like to see is those list of blogs that has seofollow or dofollow.

lol

Originally Posted by sizzler_chetan

As already spoken above, there is no dofollow. There is nofollow if there is a tag added. The other type is common on the world wide web.

robots.txt

I think that all forums like these should have nofollow signature links - My bet is the value of the posts would increase exponentially but not at the same rate as the number of decreasing posts.

I do not however think it would decrease forum visitor stats, but may in fact have the opposite effect.