Blogger Talk

I feel pretty comfortable with this blogging thing, but I’m well aware that there is a lot I don’t know. I stumble upon things on my own all the time that I need to learn, but sometimes, I get surprised.

Like this weekend, when I got an email about my linkbacks to a clothing store.

Apparently there’s this thing called a “nofollow” attribute and Google (other search engines as well possibly) is cracking down on links they consider unnatural or manipulative. The clothing store emailed me to ask me to either change my links to add nofollow or remove the links all together.

Thankfully I only had about 15 links to change, but it was still a pain.

So, tell me, fellow bloggers, how clueless am I?  Have you heard of adding the nofollow attribute to your links?

I’m still a little confused to when I should add the nofollow part. Like, should I always do it when linking stores?  I thought it was good to link back to the original source, but maybe I should add nofollow to everything?  I’m not trying to get better Google rankings when I link, but if I like something and linking to it helps their ranking, then I would want to help.  Then again, if it hurts their ranking, it’s not helping when I link without the nofollow.  Geez louise, I just confused myself more.  😛

In case you haven’t heard of this before…here’s the link on Google about their policies and here’s a little infographic I found.

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