Digg announces NOFOLLOW links for submissions
 

http://blog.digg.com/?p=864

We?ve made a few changes to the way Digg links to external sites that may impact some folks in the SEO community. These changes reduce the incentive to post spammy content (or link spam) to Digg, while still flowing ?search engine juice? freely to quality content. We?ve added rel=?nofollow? to any external link that we?re not sure we can vouch for. This includes all external links from comments, user profiles and story pages below a certain threshold of popularity.

My comment:

Big impact on those using digg to get indexed quickly. As for SEO value, getting the link's no follow tag removed depends on the popularity of your content. Popularity = 'real content' Unpopular content = spam. I'm not sure the distinction is that black and white. :winkwink:

Did NoFollow fuck up the web? Here's Matt Cutts on NoFollow links

Seems like a good move for them.

Huge impact

This will annoy the ones spamming for link-juice for sure.

This will stop a lot of the spam, not any time soon though.

hmmmm ....

Does anyone know if GFY use the nofollow too?

Not as far as I can see.

No. GFY doesn't use the NO FOLLOW tag for the forum section. GFY doesn't pull sneaky shit like other forums--NO FOLLOW the forum section link but the forum sections' pages themselves don't have the NO FOLLOW tag. The only page no followed is the search section. Makes sense.

That said, sig links seem to (I suspect-I am not sure) carry less weight than in content/in post links. Let me know if you know otherwise.

I'm surprised all the big 2.0 properties haven't dropped the nofollow bomb. seems like an obvious way to cut back on the superspammy backlink spam...

More and more sites will make this the default...

There's a video of Matt Cutts on his blog putting this all in perspective. He's saying that NO FOLLOW adoption is still way in the minority.

The more sites do it, the less important nofollow will become. :2 cents:

Or more webmasters will tune in on differing workarounds.