pageoneresults - 9:19 pm on Apr 3, 2006 (gmt 0)

Matt Cutts has also said that if you sell links that you should put this on it.

I saw that comment on Matt's Blog and thought to myself "Matt is asking the link brokers to identify their networks".

Personally, I wouldn't go near the nofollow attribute with a 10 foot pole. It was meant to prevent comment spam. Since the inception of the tag, many have taken it much further than it was intended to be used for.

If you want to flag your network of link partners, go ahead and start using the nofollow link. If you have to question whether or not a link to a viable resource is not to be trusted, then don't link.

This whole nofollow issue is a mess. It's turned into a SEO manipulation thing and I'd be willing to bet that 75% of the nofollow implementations are not correct usage, not based on the original plan for the nofollow attribute.

Want to send Google a clear message that you are involved in the whole link thing from an SEO standpoint? Start using the nofollow attribute!