If you checkout my twitter page davenaylor you can see 2 links 1 is nofollowed that’s standard but I dropped a “http://www.davidnaylor.co.uk” into my Bio 
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please don’t get on my case about the need to follow more people, I know I know
DaveN
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Time to do something will all those ‘extra’ twitter accounts I may or may not have
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Dave … that’s pretty cool … I was seeing the red nofollow indicator just the other day and was wondering how I could get a little link love from twitter … thanks for the FYI …
and FYI … I love your stuff …
You Have Been Aggregated on … SEO Master List
Have A Nice Day …
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This is old news. I currently have 4 or 5 links on each account. Looks like Matt Cutts has taken the initiative to plug the hole in this PR dyke. Nice work.
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Never said it was a new, Scoble has been doing it for ages as well ..
DaveN
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Ta for the tip
Excuse my ignorance but what does the ‘me’ bit do in the rel=”me nofollow” ?
SEO for firefox doesn’t pick it up as a no-follow link by the looks.
John
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Nice Tip! There are always tricks to learn
)Thanks very much,
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it’s the identity consolidation within the XFN1.1 framework you have a few other like friend etc ///
check out linkedin and facebook etc they use them as well
Dave
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Google can help show you some of the relationships it knows about from blogrolls and the like via the Google Social Graph: http://code.google.com/apis/socialgraph/ – i.e. this stuff isn’t as esoteric as you might think, someone is using it
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@willy franzen,
Why would they change it? Let’s be honest, it’s a microblog, on every single blog you’ve got a blogroll, right? so why not an search engine friendly backlink? Pfff….
Ok, we’ve got spammers also, but as long as internet exists, we will have those. Do the good guys have to suffer from the stupidities from the bad guys?
Neah, would we?
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Why else would Matt Cutts send the Twitter founder a note about this?
If Twitter doesn’t nofollow it, the links will probably just get devalued anyways.
I’m not agreeing with the practice, just saying what’s probably going to happen. My solution would be to close this loophole and allow the website link to be followed. Twitter should be banning off spammers anyway, so it would be a nice way to reward loyal users.
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Of course twitter has to be down for maintenance right now.
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also works on plurk, for those of you who are trying to get on twitter now, and are being greeted by the giant whale.
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Great tip Dave! my bio area is keyword stuffed to trigger the filter at twellow
now to add a link to the already spammy bio 
I’ll be sure and mention this on todays SEO 101 show – link building 101 part duex.db
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that link should be followed because it is something relevant to the persons profile.
i think using nofollows on links like this by sites which get all of their content from users is abuse.
delicious and stumbleUpon nofollow all links out like they are not relevant…
…meanwhile all of their content is derived from these links! so they are the ultimate abusers of the nofollow tag. THEY HAVE NO ORIGINAL CONTENT
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@gerben – agreed, it’s part of the blogger’s profile for followers who are interested in learning more about the person. Great tip Dave!
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[...] what happens when you point things out to Google everyone?? That’s what makes writing this blog such a challenge.. How much to share and how [...]
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[...] follows Dave Naylor’s backlink tip which caused Matt Cutts to notify Twitter founder Ev, appearing to request/recommend that [...]
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[...] link has always been a nofollow link, but the bio links passed popularity until Dave Naylor exposed it, which alerted Matt Cutts who sent a tweet to @ev (a twitter founder) about Dave’s [...]
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[...] we knew this day would come. Especially after DaveN blogged about the technique and caught Google Engineer Matt Cutt’s attention. He sent a message to [...]
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[...] The link that Matt is making reference to in his message (http://bit.ly/2vmSAz) points to Dave Naylor’s post titled Twitter Backlink Tip. [...]
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Looks like Twitter has removed live url linking from the bio section of the site, too. Which is fine, but I don’t see what the harm is with linking to it’s users?
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[...] link has always been a nofollow link, but the bio links passed popularity until Dave Naylor exposed it, which alerted Matt Cutts (a Google engineer) who sent a tweet to @ev (a twitter founder) about [...]
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[...] that would pass link juice. Matt Cutts frequents Dave’s blog and after reading the post, contacted Twitter regarding the link, who then added the “nofollow” attribute to [...]
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[...] einen Link zu Ihrer Homepage o.ä. angeben, dieser ist bei Twitter standardmäßig auf noFollow. Dave Naylor fand heraus, das bei Eingabe eines URL unter “Bio”, dieser dann durchaus suchmachinenwirksam [...]
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[...] started when David Naylor published a Twitter backlink tip on his blog. That same day, Matt Cutts — yes, you read it right — sent an email and a [...]
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Identi.ca allows www. links in the details/bio. I wonder how long before they make the same change as Twitter (no active www. links in the Bio)?
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Thanks. Nice tips
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[...] usual, the drama begins with a blog post. Back in July, Dave Naylor succinctly and generally without comment notified users of how despite Twitter (rather [...]
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It not bad idea about twitter web ( www.) link or web link has to be made as “no follow” attribute . Yet “Bio” Field still ” link follow” the spider.
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[...] short answer is that back in July I saw this post http://www.davidnaylor.co.uk/twitter-backlink-tip.html . David Naylor was pointing out that Twitter intentionally nofollowed links in the [...]
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Then have you any idea about dofollow on twitter? I had post a link on my twitter account : http://twitter.com/kishosingh. Now the link is showing a back link from twitter. What about it?
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[...] had David Naylor een backlink tip om via een omwegje backlinks met linkjuice op je Twitter profiel te plaatsen. [...]
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that was wonderful piece of information
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[...] short answer is that back in July I saw this post http://www.davidnaylor.co.uk/twitter-backlink-tip.html . David Naylor was pointing out that Twitter intentionally nofollowed links in the [...]
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[...] told them to. The public message Matt Cutts sent to Twitter co-founder Evan Williams linked to David Naylor’s post on the subject of followed profile links and said that he’s “dropped (Evan) an email” about it. [...]
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[...] short answer is that back in July I saw this post http://www.davidnaylor.co.uk/twitter-backlink-tip.html . David Naylor was pointing out that Twitter intentionally nofollowed links in the [...]
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[...] to make the effort (again) to use twitter so I’m tweaking my account. I’ve just read a post by Dave Naylor about plonking a URL into your twitter bio to gain a backlink – good tip! The [...]
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[...] link has long been a nofollow link, but the bio links passed popularity until Dave Naylor exposed it, which alerted Matt Cutts (a Google engineer) who sent a tweet to @ev (a twitter founder) about [...]
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Just signed up to twittter. Shame about the nofollow on the bio.
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[...] le section Bio, et c’est la découverte qu’avait fait David Naylor sur son billet : Twitter Backlink tip [...]
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Nofollow is still a backlink even if it doesn’t pass on PR.
Thanks for info.
Following you on Twitter. - 50
[...] David Naylor l’a fait remarqué sur son twitter et Matt Cutts le gourou de Google au niveau SEO a demandé la mise en place de Nofollow sur ce type de lien : ce qui fut fait . [...]
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[...] told them to. The public message Matt Cutts sent to Twitter co-founder Evan Williams linked to David Naylor’s post on the subject of followed profile links and said that he’s "dropped (Evan) an [...]
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DO you use html tags or no?
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does anyone know if we have to put the whole html hyperlink tag or simply the web address with the http in front of it?
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[...] O David Naylor percebeu que os links da bio ainda estavam sem nofollow e fez um post sobre [...]
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… I know this is an old thread, but thought I’d stick this somewhere related!
I was just typing up a status update for one of my clients and I was referencing Arnold Schwarzenegger – but instead of just mentioning people, I like to link to their profile.
I wasn’t sure what the Gov’s @ link was so I Googled ‘arnold schwarzenegger twitter’.
So, I found the link, but I thought it was very bizarre that Google links to http://twitter.com/Schwarzenegger?utm_medium=email&utm_source=follow&utm_campaign=twitter20080331162631 (email tracking URL)
Instead of plain and simple;
http://twitter.com/SchwarzeneggerOdd, eh? Especially as the email tracking URL only has a handful of links pointing to it, while the other has thousands.
Would love to know what you guys think.
You don’t need the ‘http://’ part actually.