Comments on: Nofollow: How to link to someone or something you detest (I’m looking at you Jan Moir)

By: Victor Jamison

Victor Jamison — Wed, 16 Feb 2011 20:06:41 +0000

All a bit complicated for me. What about asking the nice (so they say) people at Google to develop something?

By: John Meffen

John Meffen — Wed, 16 Feb 2011 11:14:24 +0000

I know I'm a bit late for this post, but why not just use cite+title="URL" in the html? Never link to horrid sources. Especially not Jan Moir or Melanie Phillips!

By: BBC follows through on promise of dofollowed links to bloggers » malcolm coles

Wed, 01 Sep 2010 08:01:37 +0000

[...] you add "nofollow" to a link (in the HTML code), it tells search engines to ignore the link - so the site you link to [...]

By: Victor Jamison

Victor Jamison — Sat, 24 Oct 2009 09:41:34 +0000

Complaining to the PCC about the Daily Mail might be pointless.

Perhaps Jan Moir simply does her bosses bidding. Her job is probably safe because:

Paul Dacre (Editor of the Daily Mail) is Chairman of the Code Committee for the Press Complaints Commission.

Peter Wright, Editor of The Mail on Sunday is a Member of the Press Complaints Commission.

("Paul Dacre, editor-in-chief of Associated Newspapers and a board director at parent company Daily Mail & General Trust, received £1.62m in salary and cash payments for the year to 28 September 2008".)

By: Alison Battisby

Alison Battisby — Wed, 21 Oct 2009 08:50:43 +0000

Great advice thanks Malcolm, I knew about the "nofollow" links - but I didn't know how to insert them myself. Now I can link to whatever I like!

By: Malcolm Coles

Malcolm Coles — Wed, 21 Oct 2009 08:46:58 +0000

Greg - I definitely checked this. I always check this. I remember checking this on this occasion as I was SO surprised (I do a lot of searches for 'a' in my toolbar as a way to make the google page appear!). However, I no longer see it either - although I also don't see her first if I sign into my Google account. Odd. Fortunately, the rest of the advice doesn't depend on whether she ranks for 'a' or not!

By: Greg

Greg — Wed, 21 Oct 2009 08:37:47 +0000

Are you certain that personalisation was disabled for your query on 'a'? I've searched for 'a' with pws=0 added to my search and haven't found the Mail article in the top 30..

By: minifig

minifig — Wed, 21 Oct 2009 08:09:45 +0000

Good to know. Thanks!

By: Malcolm Coles

Malcolm Coles — Wed, 21 Oct 2009 07:58:24 +0000

You don't need to worry about Twitter - it automatically adds nofollow to its links. Good point, though - I shall add it to the post.

By: minifig

minifig — Wed, 21 Oct 2009 07:37:04 +0000

I know using bit.ly alone doesn't solve the problem, but for Twitter and such, can you add nofollow into the bit.ly link you use? Does that work?