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Facebook Connect and nofollow.

Not that Facebook needs any help in this area, but it occurred to me this morning that Facebook Connect is potentially an extremely one-sided affair as far as SEO is concerned. While FB Connect is probably generating millions of new inbound links for Facebook, I’m guessing that it generates absolutely zero in new links for sites that use it because all Facebook links are nofollow. Does anyone know if this is true or not?

(This isn’t true on Wordpress as the FB Connect widget removes the nofollow tag, unfortunately, if you’re like me and you have implemented FB Connect through Disqus, you are screwed.)

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  • blaiq
    An observation un-related to the above post in particular. While your RSS feed and the main blog page mention the name of the writer of the post, individual pages like this one completely omit it. Left me confused for a bit when I landed here. (And I must confess I looked for the writer's name because it just seemed uncharacteristic of Adrian to write something like this :)
  • I'm trying to mix it up a bit otherwise it's just too predictable ;)
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