But I did not know google really cared.

When I’m creating a review, I should be in my html editor? And that changes things how? This is so confusing and I don’t get it. I have no idea what an “anchor tag” is or where I’d put this code in my giveaway posts.

Will I have to tell the companies I work with that I am putting in a “no-follow” something or other on my giveaway posts? Will that possibly change if they work with me?

How will Google even know what I’m doing? Do they have a dept specifically going through Blogger and looking at every single product review site and doing something to their ranking? I haven’t even paid attention to all of that before and really am not concerned about it at this point. That seems like an endless job for someone to do.

I have never done a sponsored link or been given any $ to put someone’s link on my site. I have seen bloggers who offer a spot on their site. Is that what you are talking about? So if company XYZ contacted me, asked me to put their logo on my site and sent me some form of monetary payment, then I would be in violation of Google rules?

Is that part of the “no-follow” issue.

As you can clearly see, I’m still utterly confused about this issue. I saw it one other time quite a while ago and didn’t get it then either. You are welcome to contact me personally to explain it more if you’d like. Thanks for trying to help us unsuspecting and uneducated bloggeres!

You don’t see companies carrying PR Rank badges on their sites. They don’t give a crap either. I am not saying this to debunk your post by any means but I don’t care what they say, they can’t enforce a rule that they don’t follow themselves. Google Page Rank is actually so messed up that companies are not even asking for it anymore, they want readership stats instead.

I do follow Michael Gray, thanks. His ongoing campaign concerning Google’s double standards (letting Guy Kawasaki get away with things the rest of us can’t) was part of my inspiration for writing this post. But you contradicted yourself. Yes – Google does not practice what it preaches. That doesn’t mean the rest of us are free to do as we wish… if we want to appear reasonably high in the Google SERPs.

Texxs,

Let me know how that works out for you. It works until you get caught. Then… good luck digging yourself out of the Google sandbox. If you don’t care about ranking in the Google SERPs, feel free to ignore nofollow completely. Yahoo doesn’t care about nofollow. But if you want the Google traffic for the long haul, you need to play by their rules.

So please, you sheep keep doing what Google tells you too, makes it easier for us to succeed!