January 17, 2007
Youtube goes nuts with the links, part 2
This is a follow-up to the first post about linking issues at Youtube, specifically relating to their (perhaps Google-inspired) use of the odious nofollow tag. In the following images, links within a salmon-colored box with a dashed border have that tag, ones without that change are normal, old-school style web links.
The first shows that one of my sites is responsible for over 2% of the views for one of their popular videos. Despite that, I get the tag:
On the plus side, a link to another of my sites that I just added to the description of a video I had uploaded in November does not have that tag:
UPDATE: I wish to fully and completely distance my complaints from these.
Posted to Miscellania at January 17, 2007 12:59 PM
