{"id":3018,"date":"2014-07-27T10:17:46","date_gmt":"2014-07-27T04:47:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/susanta.com\/blog\/?p=3018"},"modified":"2021-09-04T06:49:54","modified_gmt":"2021-09-04T01:19:54","slug":"lets-nofollow-google","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/susanta.org\/lets-nofollow-google\/","title":{"rendered":"Let\u2019s Nofollow Google"},"content":{"rendered":"
The fundamental criticism is that we are getting a Google-shaped web rather than a web-shaped Google, due to Google’s defacto monopoly position.<\/p>\n
If you\u2019re an IT guy, you must be familiar with the no-follow tag often used in the HTML pages across the Web.<\/p>\n
However, if you are not in the SEO game for a while, you may have missed Google\u2019s despotic stand on no-follow in recent times, especially in 2014.<\/p>\n
Yes, Google has been demonstrating a great deal of high-handedness and dictating terms over how the webmasters should use no-follow tags while linking out externally.<\/p>\n
Google has been handing out penalties to many renowned blogs on the Web accusing them of violating its TOS (Terms of Services) for no good reason, causing widespread frustrations among the SEOs.<\/p>\n