There is a fun WebmasterWorld thread where a publisher of “design elements” said many publishers and web sites use their design elements they post for free and often link back to them after using it but that link contains a nofollow attribute. He wants to tell them that they should remove the post completely if they do not remove the nofollow attribute on the link. He said it is “unfair” and “not right.”

Here is his complaint:

Interesting strategy. Don’t tell people to link to you, they are already doing that. Threaten them to remove the nofollow when linking to you. I wonder how well that would work. Personally, I’d rather have a nofollowed link than no link at all.

A WebmasterWorld moderator said:

Indeed.

Be careful about telling people how you want them to link to you, especially after they already linked to you.

Oh, if you link to this blog post, please nofollow the link. ;-P

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