The nofollow link attribute was originally designed to reduce comment and forum spam by removing the value of links with the nofollow attribute. Originally the major blog platforms adopted them immediately to reduce comment spam. Did it work on reducing comment spam?

A WebmasterWorld thread has some webmasters arguing it hasn’t. It is hard to tell. Would comment spam be ten fold without the nofollow in place? Again, hard to say.

One webmaster wrote:

But as the WebmasterWorld moderator replied, it likely would be worse without it.

Do you think so? Take our poll:

Should Google Retire The Nofollow Attribute?

Forum discussion at WebmasterWorld.

This post was pre-written and scheduled to be posted today. Have a happy, healthy and sweet new year!