Thread: eZineArticles Going NOFOLLOW

Originally Posted by bogart

This is funny that they are posting duplicate content.

Why is that? The internet is made up of duplicate content. Perhaps you are not aware, but duplicate content (unless it's duplicate content on your own website) hasn't been as issue since early 2000s. How about news sites that are made up of 90% "duplicate content" from other websites?

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All I know is that none of my +100 plus articles on ezinearticles have the nofollow tag on them, new or old. I also have a very distinct mix of articles, having written many of them myself, with a good portion of them being spun from existing articles, and a handful of them being 100% duplicate content from other websites.

I picked out an example article for each of those categories to make my analysis and none of them have the nofollow tag. Perhaps ezinearticles will do so in the future, but I think they won't as the repercussions of such a drastic and massive change may be even more devastating to them.

My articles on ezine are dofollow. Looks like a 'expertise slap' on accounts that have articles in a lot of different niches i.e. brain surgery, dui attorney and auto mechanic.

Originally Posted by bogart

My articles on ezine are dofollow. Looks like a 'expertise slap' on accounts that have articles in a lot of different niches i.e. brain surgery, dui attorney and auto mechanic.

Like you, I would like to delve deeper into this and find out what ezinearticles would look for to decide to place nofollow on some accounts but not on others...or if that's even how they do it, manually or through a certain algorithm.

Originally Posted by Habbakuk

Like you, I would like to delve deeper into this and find out what ezinearticles would look for to decide to place nofollow on some accounts but not on others...or if that's even how they do it, manually or through a certain algorithm.

Most likely an account that appears to be an SEO or AM. Perhaps the author could use pen names to organize the articles from different niches.

I wonder if it will still have such a big appeal for people writing content for the directory id its no-follow.

Originally Posted by aayati

I wonder if it will still have such a big appeal for people writing content for the directory id its no-follow.

Sure. But it has more appeal for me because my link are "Dofollow"

Originally Posted by Mahfira

I think for article marketing it is not that important whether it is do follow or noe. And if you talk about ezine then it is importantless more. Because they are the best.

For the few accounts that are still "do follow", it makes the links even more valuable.

Soon, every site on the net will be no follow.
Thus negating all those SEO people and link builders/sellers.

Originally Posted by iowadawg

Soon, every site on the net will be no follow.
Thus negating all those SEO people and link builders/sellers.

And making it impossible for new publishers to get into the SERPs.

Will, now you know better than that!
Getting into the SERP's has very little to do with how many do follow links you have.

Geesh....I get new sites/blogs into first page of google the day I go live with them.
Not one single back link.