Did Matt Cutts just say link buying is ok ?
- 23rd Apr 2008
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Ok Matt was asked about Nofollow recently at the Domain RoundTable 2008, and If I’m reading this write, what Jaan posted
Matt says nofollow is a “very simple thing”. Nofollow link doesn’t flow page rank, doesn’t flow anchor text. Link level to say “I trust this link but I don’t trust this link”. You don’t want to flow page rank through them if you don’t trust them. Real business 3-4% of your links will be stale, don’t worry don’t need nofollow. If check them at some point, willing to vouch for them, at some point checked them for quality, then don’t need to worry about nofollow. If just a domain directory, use no follow.. it is a matter of how much due diligence you put in.”
so Matt is it ok to email webmasters and say,
Dear Webmaster,
recently Matt Cutts said on Links “Nofollow link doesn’t flow page rank, doesn’t flow anchor text. Link level to say “I trust this link but I don’t trust this link”
So what I would like to offer you is, you to look at my site “———-” and you make the judgement call, I would be willing to pay you either away for the link “link information” or even the the “link information with Nofollow”, Obviously I feel that a link on your site will help me either way, obviously this “link information with Nofollow” means you don’t trust the site, and I would by surprised if you took me up on my offer lol..
regards Dave
Of course you would get your arse banned if caught but at least you could prove that you did at least try and follow the rules ;)
DaveN
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(I’m at the Web 2.0 Expo right now, so I’ll keep it brief.)
No, I did not say that link buying was okay at all. A directory owner essentially asked “All these links were okay when I first reviewed them. If I do reasonable due diligence on my outgoing links, should I worry if a few domains have expired and might be pointing to different content now, or should I put nofollow on my directory links?”
And I said “If you did due diligence when you were adding the links, I wouldn’t sweat if some of them could have gotten stale. On the other hand, if you have just a big list of links and haven’t checked them out at all, that would be a fine time to use nofollow.”
By the way, -1 for the linkbait-y title. ;)
I believe that’s 1-0 to Mr Cutts.
I thought the title was awesome, you see how far Bloggers and Search Engines have drifted apart :( ..
jk DaveN
Jonesy you reckon ,, lol
Ha ha! Checkout out the SERP!
http://www.google.co.uk/search?q=link+buying+matt+cutts&sourceid=navclient-ff&ie=UTF-8&rlz=1B2DVFC_enGB230GB231
looking at that SERP i’d say it’s 1 all ;-)
looking at the serps, Dave is first and Matt is second so I would say its 1 - 0 to dave really
mind you its would not be hard for Matt to reverse the results now would it :)
I bet you guys get me into trouble :)
DAve
Actually Dave I’d give you +1 for the link baitie headline. Nice one.
Actually Dave I was more concerned about the PR Sculpting nonsense side of the comments and not so much the paid links