Update: Scott has since fixed the issue, as seen in the comments. (And I have thus removed the nofollows :)
I was checking the backlinks to my No Personalized Search plugin page, when I saw this turn up as one of the backlinks:
Now of course I thought that was odd (and a bit funny), so I was looking at who linked to that. Yahoo! said no-one linked to it, Google points at the SiteCreations blog, now I don’t see the link above there at the moment, but I did see this link: http://www.searchengineland.com/ ?status=no-link-love in the blogroll. I consider that annoying behavior. Linking like that might create duplicate content problems on a site, and since the guy is an SEO, he’s doing that deliberately, simply because he never got a link off of SearchEngineLand. In my opinion, if you do that, you’re a whiner, and you don’t deserve to ever get a link from them anyway.
Yes, this is stupid.
If the guy don’t want to pass any link love, either he doesn’t link or he could link with a nofollow attribute.
I had the same one once, from a ‘SEO expert’ too, strange peoples… ;)
Yea, he has been doing that for years.
Hmm Barry, such an annoying ****-head :)
You should let him get on with it (or even encourage it – tell him to get all his friends to link to the URL) and then just 301 them to the homepage :-)
Seriously though – this is pretty scummy, also does he seriously expect to be able to do them any hard with a couple of links?? This is SEL we’re talking about here!
Um, hang on here. That’s my site.
This was never meant to be sleazy or sh**-head behavior. It was something I did a long time ago just as an inside joke/message for people to find in logfiles. You’re right, it’s silly and I’m pulling them wherever I can find any leftovers.
I appreciate the advice, and for calling it out.
Nice Scott, I’ll update the post :)