1script - 2:26 pm on Apr 18, 2007 (gmt 0)

nofollow on paid links must be the most ridiculous idea that was ever inspired by Matt C.'s writings. It looks sometimes that he's mudding the water to catch blind fish, so to speak.

Before a link goes up on my site, paid or not, I review the site I am linking to. Therefore I can vouch for the page I'm linking to and so nofollow attribute is not required. It was supposed to be only for user-generated content pages that you as a webmaster did not personally review and therefore cannot give your link vote. If I did not want to vouch for the page, I would not have accepted the link in the first place.