Comment posted to Yoast WordPress SEO Plugin Review by Mike Johnson.
The main reason for using the nofollow attribute on the sites is to purposely not give credit to the affiliate links there. Being that Google only recognizes the first 100 links on a page, I like to make sure it is only indexing and following the links I want it to. Therefore Google will not then look at my sites as thin affiliate sites.
My course has some software but not a pure auto blogging plugin. I recommend several very good tools to my members and show them how to use them in my course, but I focus on creating SEO Friendly, value added sites and not SPAM Blogs or junk “quickie” sites. These old techniques do not work and only sites that add value to users and the web work as auto blogs. So I tend to describe my Course and a way to build value added blogs that run on auto as opposed to pure auto blogs. Unique content is required on these sites as well.
I would be interested to hear how you cloak your links from Google without using the nofollow in them. Email me if you do not want to post it here.
Mike
