hvacdirect - 6:42 pm on Mar 29, 2007 (gmt 0)

Tedster makes a great point. Whenever I visit a site that turns all pink (with the firefox extension) I think this guy is trying to game the system.

The problem right now is that Google keeps changing the rules, sure it was developed for comment spam but now includes pay-per-post, affiliate links, untrusted sites, yada yada, when will it end?

As with all well intentioned search engine issues too much of something at some point becomes spam. Having the webmaster put in keywords in a meta tag was a great idea, until the 2nd day when some wise guy figured out he could stuff it full of irrelavent words and rank for those as well.

Eventually you know this will become a spam indicator as well, if you are trying to funnel your pagerank to certain pages and artificially influence Google they may start watching for it.

I think we're going to see some real messes coming up because of this nofollow thing. It was designed to stop people from influencing the natural rankings with spam links, but of course stopping something from influencing the natural rankings is influencing the natural rankings, so somebody is going to try to take advantage of that.