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> Why does a multi-millionaire company get to decide that my HTML markup is `wrong` if there is no "nofollow" in my HTML? They don't "get to decide" anything.
by quonn 12y ago
> Why does a multi-millionaire company get to decide that my HTML markup is `wrong` if there is no "nofollow" in my HTML?
They don't "get to decide" anything. It's just that _you_ don't get to decide either. After all there are many others who also want to be listed at the top for a particular query.
Simply, their algorithm works in a particular way. Other tags might also affect the ranking, such as h1 tags, for example. There has to be _some_ mechanism.
Why is this so difficult to understand?
- sunnykgupta 12y agoIndicating, that its a shortcoming in Google's search algorithm that makes anybody who wish to get listed on it's index to follow these `Rules`?
- quonn 12y agoMy point is that short of picking the search results randomly, any mechanism will have some rules (no matter how complicated) that affect how things get ranked.
- sunnykgupta 12y agoSo be open about the shortcomings in your algorithms instead of trying to show that the practice is bad, try telling people that your algorithm is not competent enough to know if the intentions are good or bad. Hence your algorithm requires you to comply to the nofollow rule.
- tveita 12y agoIf they did fix their algorithm, no one would pay for link spam any more.
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