I use my.yahoo as my homepage and I noticed over the weekend that they had implemented the nofollow attribute to all of the links. I use Firefox with the Search Status extension that will automatically highlight all nofollowed links on a page in pink; so when I logged in on Saturday my yahoo homepage looked like a big bucket of strawberry ice cream.
It was said early on when nofollow came out that although Yahoo supposedly wouldn’t pass any link popularity through nofollow’d links; they would still follow the links. Has this changed? As far as I could tell (although I never tested it), MyYahoo wasn’t passing any juice so I don’t really get why they’d do this. Maybe they were. (Damn! I should’ve taken better advantage of it if that’s the case.)
I guess I really don’t care about this one way or the other, but unless I want to turn off my SEO add-on, I now hate my homepage. Maybe it’s time for a new one…
*****UPDATE****** 8/28/08
Yahoo must’ve heard about my threats because they have removed the nofollow attribute from MyYahoo. I feel so loved.
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I guess yahoo is afraid of getting de-listed with Google?
MegaD
Or use the SEOQuake feature for No-Follow links - it will strike through the font instead of highlighting it pink… not much better, but some.
I wonder if their directory will be the same then - no follow links?
what a bad decision that would be on their part. It’s a hard enough pill to swallow paying to be in their directory, but to give it zero benefit would make it worth nothing.
Sorry. I’m still recovering from the shock of learning people actually use MyYahoo.
MyYahoo is greatness and I’ve used it since it came out.What’s the alternative…what do you use? (And please don’t say iGoogle because I just had breakfast.)
HI KATE!!
I think that all servers need to work together and watch each others back. GOOGLE,YAHOO,MICROSOFT,AOL- who cares all of these search engines are desprately needed. So, that we will not put all our eggs in one basket.
I think Yahoo was asked by Google to do so. T
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