Comment posted to Yoast WordPress SEO Plugin Review by Mike Johnson.
I have been using the WordPress SEO plugin for some time now and I highly recommend it to my Members. The single nofollow attribute you are worried about is a micro point in a huge and more important SEO discussion.
I know we had this discussion before, but over 80 Blogs with top 5 rankings, yes, top 5 (with a lot of #1′s) say that a plugin alone is not even close to being the determining factor in your site’s SEO, but even more importantly, in how Google will actually rank your site.
I use this plugin on all those sites and my site’s that don’t have it (about 50+ using Platinum SEO Pack because I was too lazy to change it out) don’t do as well. This is a statistical fact, not something I am making up.
The overall point being, that more site’s than none do not have every single SEO factor perfect on their Blogs and they still rank #1 for their chosen keywords and their are blogs which have everything 100% right and they do not.
Success does not lie on onsite and onpage SEO alone and some of these small form factors have a relevance to your overall success of like 2-5%. So I think I will be sticking with the WordPress SEO Plugin because results speak louder to me than any tit for tat SEO discussion.
Mike
