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[Technology Story] Do you feel that the widespread and blanket use of nofollow tags is devaluing Google’s search algorithms? Examples such as Wikipedia, where ALL external links are nofollow.

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[eBusiness.lk] Does “NoFollow” means nothing for Google ? or does it have some ...: Do you feel that the widespread and blanket use of nofollow tags is devaluing Google’s search algorithms? Examples such as Wikipedia, where ALL external links are nofollow.

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[Vince Samios - Internet Entrepreneur] Internal No-follow vs External No-Follow: The second would devalue Googles search algorithms significantly, as it revolves around linking. Its back to the old Wikipedia links question (Do wikipedia no-follow links still pass juice?) and its worth raising a new point”¦ twitter .

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[Sugarcaned] Ed Gray - The NoFollow / Dofollow Debate: I just discovered this, and quickly made changes to my blog, and I've been persuading some of my colleagues to do the same. I've noticed that a lot of my chiropractor friends were trying in vain to comment on popular blogs while giving out their websites, only to have them no-followed.

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