Comments on: Google's "Operation BENDOVER" Exposed – Nofollow & PageRank Sculpting

By: John @ Affiliate Training

John @ Affiliate Training — Fri, 15 Apr 2011 21:06:52 +0000

If no follow links don't pass page rank or anchor text, how come they appear in Majestic and Noble Samurai when you check SEO Rank?

Or does this just apply to Google's search results?

By: Mike Haydon

Mike Haydon — Fri, 13 Aug 2010 10:38:50 +0000

Just watched this one again – you're a funny man Dan! Do you know if this nofollow mess is still the same now?

By: Ivan

Ivan — Tue, 18 May 2010 22:44:11 +0000

Now this is one of the funniest geek videos ever xD

By: Dan Thies

Dan Thies — Mon, 12 Oct 2009 16:42:30 +0000

Andy recorded it so we'll have that online this week – over at http://www.andyjenkinsblog.com

By: Madeline Binder

Madeline Binder — Sat, 10 Oct 2009 16:11:37 +0000

I missed the phone call on Thurs evening.. to tell the truth I fell asleep! Was it recorded, and if so, where can I listened to it? Madeline

By: BigMouth

BigMouth — Tue, 22 Sep 2009 13:09:45 +0000

So, if I understand the video and Matt's post then the fact that I have used my URL in this comment is actually pointless as Google only looks down about a couple of hundred links on any page.

'Course if I don't understand anything, a very real possibility, there might be some value even with a nofollow link.

At the very least some video on YouTube gains some PR love, hope it's one of mine but that would be too much to hope for.

Hang on, maybe that's the answer, make the URL to the YouTube video just so Google knows which one should get all that extra link juice. Yes, that's it. Now how do I spam that...

By: steveballmer

steveballmer — Fri, 31 Jul 2009 01:45:07 +0000

Such an appropriate name!

By: Chris

Chris — Sun, 19 Jul 2009 18:45:55 +0000

Aha, I never took the time to actually look. Just saw half the page turn red and thought they must've nofollowed everything. Didn't know that SearchStatus/SEO for Firefox would do that when the nofollow meta tag is used.

Thanks for pointing that out. Been sitting in the back of my mind for a few months, now . . .

By: Dan Thies

Dan Thies — Sun, 19 Jul 2009 18:42:22 +0000

Chris, if you read the source code, they don't have nofollow on every link. If you look at the page with SearchStatus or something, it will highlight all the links as "nofollow" because of the nofollow in the robots meta tag.

By: Chris

Chris — Sun, 19 Jul 2009 06:42:48 +0000

Are you guys talking about the noindex, nofollow tag on My Wedding Favors, or all of the nofollow attributes on every link? (When the page is viewed by a regular user - aka, not Googlebot).

I understand why he shows a noindex, nofollow to everyone but Googlebot (protect against hijacking), but why the nofollow attributes? Is it so that if anyone scrapes the site, their scraped version will be all nofollows?

Been wondering about this for months now, and this is the closest I've gotten to any kind of reason why.