Matt Cutts Updates Google’s nofollow Use
admin Popularity: 16% [?] October 11th, 2007
This is probably the last update I will post about this issue since I have covered the topic in two previous posts, What is With the rel=nofollow Penalty and Update: What is With the rel=nofollow, but it is worth an additional follow up here with Matt Cutts latest post, Quick comment on nofollow. Matt has updated Google’s interpretation of the use of nofollow and answered some questions that had been flying around lately.
I did learn some new information about the issue from reading the lastest posts, and when you should consider using the rel=nofollow code with your links.
Matt also answered some of the questions posed by seomoz.org in his post, Matt Cutts on Nofollow, Links-Per-Page and the Value of Directories, where he asked several unanswered questions about the nofollow issue.
Most of his remarks come from a post to the Google Group, Google Webmaster, where he says that webmasters are free to use the nofollow how they see fit of course but something else I had been wondering and just didn’t ask yet, was if I have my robots.txt file modified where the entire directory is disallowed, will that work too? Apparently so.
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