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Whiteboard Friday - How Do We Plug the Nofollow Leak?

Scott Willoughby

The author's views are entirely their own (excluding the unlikely event of hypnosis) and may not always reflect the views of Moz.

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Scott Willoughby

Whiteboard Friday - How Do We Plug the Nofollow Leak?

The author's views are entirely their own (excluding the unlikely event of hypnosis) and may not always reflect the views of Moz.

This week's Whiteboard Friday addresses everybody's new favorite topic: Google's "new" treatment of nofollow and how it creates a massive reservoire of lost link juice.  Everybody under the sun has written about this (SEOmoz included) in the last couple of weeks, so we decided to do a little roundtable (squareboard?) pow-wow on how best to deal with the problem.

Rand is joined by Nick Gerner, Ben Hendrickson, and Lindsay Perkin-Wassell to discuss possible solutions for pluging this nofollow leak.  The video is a bit longer than usual, but it's an important discussion. Those of us who have seen great results with nofollow-based PageRank sculpting now need to consider what impact (if any) this new announcement will have on our sites and those of our clients, so let's commence the weighing of options...


SEOmoz Whiteboard Friday - How Do We Plug the Nofollow Leak? from Scott Willoughby on Vimeo.


Technical note: There was a slight problem with the tape that mangled the first few seconds of Rand's introduction, hence the abrupt opening. You may also notice some strange compression artifacts due to the same problem. Also, since I didn't have enough individual mics for everyone, the sound is a little bit worse than usual...my apologies. -Scott
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