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"The submissions have the nofollow atribute until the get enough points." I get the how and why of that for HN but not why search engines would pay attention t
by oblib 7y ago
"The submissions have the nofollow atribute until the get enough points."
I get the how and why of that for HN but not why search engines would pay attention to it.
I do know they pay attention though. Links to pages on my websites that I've submitted here get crawled almost instantly.
- NeedMoreTea 7y agoNofollow was a reaction to sites that allowed spam but didn't manage or clean them, and the early SEO game of trying to get links on any and every high page rank site - and buying/selling high PR domains. It allowed a link without giving any pagerank love to it. Setting nofollow until a link has enough votes, on a site that manages spam well, seems like an ideal way of handling it. No point using HN to boost your 5 page adsense sites (when those were still a major thing). Shouldn't affect crawling though. Crawlers crawl sites that update often more frequently, and did IIRC long before nofollow. So HN and popular news sites like NYT, BBC, Guardian etc are probably being crawled near constantly. A new (followed) link should show up frighteningly quickly. (This is all assuming Google haven't remade nofollow to mean something different now pagerank doesn't really count for much any more.)
- palashkulsh 7y agothat are some new insights, so popularity is the key ingredient.
- oblib 7y agoThank you! That makes perfect sense.