WTF Blog Catalog?
Blogging December 21st, 2007While I was setting up my twitter account today I thought it would be a good idea to head over to Blog Catalog and see if any of my contacts were doing the twitter thing.
While I was there I noticed that they have started to nofollow all blog links. Before it was the feeds that they nofollowed, which is understandable, in my opinion. Then they moved to redirects on the feeds. Now your blog URL is completely nofollowed. WTF? I thought this network was built by bloggers for bloggers? Maybe it’s just me but are you that page rank greedy that you have to nofollow all the blogs in your network, trying to reroute the PR? Of course I’m just speculating here, but I’m pretty sure I’m right.
As my way of saying thanks to Blog Catalog I will now take down their widget from my front page so that I don’t mistakenly pass any PR to anyone I don’t trust. I instead will just have it posted on my Blog Catalog page which was an earlier post on how I dropped Blog Rush for Blog Catalog. What to do now?










December 25th, 2007 at 4:47 am
I’m sick of seeing people no following links…It should only be used as a last ditch, when links are user generated and cannot be moderated.
December 28th, 2007 at 3:21 am
That is rather lame, I know on my blog I give anyone that requests it a free blog review with text linking back to their blog and I don’t care what page rank they are. If Google wants to lower my page rank, so be it. I would rather keep my readers happy than Google.
February 16th, 2008 at 5:15 am
Every project passes different steps of it’s development. From just the “interesting idea” to a “multiprofitable business”,so why are you terrified by an extra attempts of Google (or any other company) to earn some money?
February 25th, 2008 at 12:20 pm
This is interesting news. I guess I will remove my link to their site as well. It is really annoying when a site like this marks our sites with a no follow.
March 2nd, 2008 at 9:37 pm
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April 15th, 2008 at 11:21 am
nofollow sucks. When I check my links on Google nothing shows up but I know I have a lot of links. Unfortuneatly just about all of them must have the nofollow attribute.
April 15th, 2008 at 11:22 am
PS: how did you find that out about Blog Catalog?
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