Two things I still need to work out are:

1) Will the nofollow attribute apply to Technorati’s spider?

2) If I don’t actually get much traffic from Technorati then is there any point in having the tags at all on my site?

Lastly, if you happen to be using the Simpletags WordPress plugin for this site, it’s a quick change to add the nofollow code in.

Two things I still need to work out are:

1) Will the nofollow attribute apply to Technorati's spider?

2) If I don't actually get much traffic from Technorati then is there any point in having the tags at all on my site?

Lastly, if you happen to be using the Simpletags WordPress plugin for this site, it's a quick change to add the nofollow code in.

So if Technorati decides on one hand to robot-nofollow their own sites as well as all outgoing links and on the other hand add a rel=”nofollow” to each and every link, I’d say it sounds as if they try to raise the PR for the main site. Or, the other way round, the try to avoid getting the PR dropped bit by bit by providing outgoing links.

Which way you put it, the result is the same, as this way, the PR gets “stolen” from those who’re linking to Technorati, but get nothing in return. It’s the socialising and link/blogrolling which made blogging into what it is today. It’s ironic that “socialising services” now start to shave those off who “made” them.

At least there’s coming a half-decent share of traffic from Technorati. Even if some of my blogs won’t get pinged anymore for some reason I don’t understand. And even if you’re never ever getting an answer from their support. :-/

So if Technorati decides on one hand to robot-nofollow their own sites as well as all outgoing links and on the other hand add a rel=”nofollow” to each and every link, I'd say it sounds as if they try to raise the PR for the main site. Or, the other way round, the try to avoid getting the PR dropped bit by bit by providing outgoing links.

Which way you put it, the result is the same, as this way, the PR gets “stolen” from those who're linking to Technorati, but get nothing in return. It's the socialising and link/blogrolling which made blogging into what it is today. It's ironic that “socialising services” now start to shave those off who “made” them.

At least there's coming a half-decent share of traffic from Technorati. Even if some of my blogs won't get pinged anymore for some reason I don't understand. And even if you're never ever getting an answer from their support. :-/

Some theorize that search engines penalize sites with large collections of outgoing links, some might say it’s a sign of hostility between the blog search engines and the traditional ones, and a few go as far as to say that it’s proof the blog search engines are engaging in scraper-like activity.

I can’t believe that technorati or icerocket need to ensure good placement in the Google Serps. Who searches for ‘blog search’ or whatever. Heck, I can’t even remember a time where I searched for something and a technorati or icerocket link came up.

A couple months ago now, I removed nofollow from my website and as far as I can tell I haven’t been smited by the search engines.

I personally think that other websites use nofollow when linking to blogs to remove bloggers influence on the search engine results. Effectively, by using no follow we (they) are muting the blogosphere’s (bleh) collective voice.

Some theorize that search engines penalize sites with large collections of outgoing links, some might say it's a sign of hostility between the blog search engines and the traditional ones, and a few go as far as to say that it's proof the blog search engines are engaging in scraper-like activity.

I can't believe that technorati or icerocket need to ensure good placement in the Google Serps. Who searches for 'blog search' or whatever. Heck, I can't even remember a time where I searched for something and a technorati or icerocket link came up.

A couple months ago now, I removed nofollow from my website and as far as I can tell I haven't been smited by the search engines.

I personally think that other websites use nofollow when linking to blogs to remove bloggers influence on the search engine results. Effectively, by using no follow we (they) are muting the blogosphere's (bleh) collective voice.