Changeing Hyperlinks from Do Follow to Do Not Follow
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I Have a blog on my website and we do guest post from time to time. I was contacted by a blogger to change the Back links on his Article from Do Follow to Do not Follow. His Article has been live for 5 Months. When I asked him of the reason for that his Answer was that he needs to comply with Google's New Alogarithm ! Has Anyone Had Similar situation or can shed more light on that issue ?
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Hi Giantuca,
Thanks a lot for your reply. I understand now. When I was asked to change that back link to no follow I thought there was some problem with my website in fact.
My blog is tripsetc.com/blog and has not been penalized by any search engine so as it was the first time I encounter that situation i was puzzled.
Thanks again. BTW Noticed you live in Valencia an Awesome city with a good Soccer team.
Best Regards.
Sherif
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Hi Sherif
Your situation is quite common: you have been contacted by someone, whose site (or client's site) received - possibly - a message from Google about "unnatural links".
Or, simply, it has bee hit by Penguin.
So... in a frenzy for cleaning the link profile of the site, that guy started asking for "nofollowing" backlinks or even deleting them.
Sincerely, not knowing your blog, I can't tell you if that guest author had a reason for asking you that kind of request, but to put that link as nofollow doesn't really cost you nothing.
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