Twitter's Nofollow Link Policy Is Not a Bad Move

I read in one of the SEO forums the other day that, when Twitter made all outbound links nofollow, he lost something like 100,000 backlinks. Wow, had he been busy or what. Makes me glad I’m happily writing a blog article now in a place where I have total control (for now) of the links. My own blog.

Be aware I’ve certainly done my share of link sculpting and link dropping. I also am a long time system gamer. If there’s a system out there, I want to find it and game it.

I also have to keep reminding myself that, by and large, the web does not exist for web developers, seo experts and the like. Sad to say but the web really does exist for those who do not know, nor care, about such matters.

So, again, it comes back to the “user experience” of those who do not display Google pagerank in their tool bars.

Anyway, it seams that Twitter would rather practice isolationism than than deal with diplomatic matters such as link spam. They will keep their pagerank and roll the dice on being a self-contained “web within a web”. And that’s fine. Set yourself up there. Find others with similar interests and they will click your links just the same. The disadvantages of nofollow links are painfully obvious.

I also think a good percentage of Twitter’s traffic is driven by people who just want to build a following for their own gain and have little or no interest in their followers. In other words, they are there because there is something in it for them. Am I right?

For the system gamers, we’ve been handed another lemon. Lemon Kool-Aid anyone?