Though really, it would just be a “thank you” or “appreciation” link, the same way that you link to people who let you borrow great content from their blogs, or base a post off of one of theirs.

Although I am a bit curious about a few things. First of all, your top commentator plug in seems to have reset it’s numbers. I may have missed the post relating to this, but when did that happen, and why? Does it only count comments with a certain amount of recency?

My site just made it out of the sandbox. I am very pleased with the results. I can now write articles and have them actually appear in the SERPs. I have worked very hard to get my personal site to this level. Unfortunately, I may have lost readers because of the changes I have made. These changes would have been in place a long time ago if I knew had know better how Google worked. As it stands now with my site is I will openly add just about any great quality blog into my super HUGE blogroll so that my readers and visitors (who are now also coming from Google) can have the opportunity to click and view the list and click on blogs that interest them. However, I have modified my WordPress install to include the rel=nofollow on my blogroll. I have over 85 links in my categorized blogroll. These number will continue to climb as bloggers continue to request to have their site added. Having that large amount of links on every page within my site (especially the individual post pages) puts a huge drain on my ability to have my own content indexed. The blogroll is there for readers and pass by readers to get linked up with great quality blogs. My blogroll is NOT there to aid others with gaining PageRank. PageRank can be achieved when a blogger writes excellent things and other bloggers willingly link to the post and or to the home page of the blogger.

The Good news, which everyone SHOULD be happy about is the fact that I have modified my WordPress install and I have actually OPENED up my individual post pages by removing the rel=nofollow.

Long story short… I have done the opposite what a typical WordPress install has. Out of the box, WordPress does not have NOFOLLOW on the blogroll but does have NOFOLLOW on the comments.

I have reversed this… I have NOFOLLOW on my irrelevant links which reside in my blogroll and have opened up links in my comments. The comments are from readers who read my blog and have sites that have a logical relevancy to my site. The people that comment on my site are contributors and they should be rewarded. I have lost a few readers due to the complexity of what I am doing with this site… however, everything I am doing is in the interest of my readers.

This will buy me time until I can figure out how to properly configure Spam Karma, as Andy Beard suggested. Once this is done… I guess I am more able to tightly control my external links.

http://www.garryconn.com/its-googles-way-or-the-highway.php

It’s almost like the US government making a legislation saying that companies will be taxed more if they buy ads from cable television.

It’s pretty obvious that it needs doing at the moment – It’s next to impossible to find a good website designer these days… Those guys have backlinks pouring out of their ears and it’s obviously making it harder to find them.

Personally I don’t care how big Google gets – they are still the best search engine out there at the moment and they’ve done so much for the internet.

As for their monopolistic plans – by devaluing link exchanges and paid links, they’ll effectively generate more adwords customers.

It’s funny though, the more time goes by, and the “bigger” Google gets…the more they start to appear Microsoft-like. When Google was first starting out, everyone was in their corner, but as time goes by, they start doing little things here & there that piss people off, and I’ve been seeing more & more disdain toward Google…

Per the article, I agree that this algorithm could not be implemented overnight & I’m not too worried about it. Once it comes out, people will find a way to get done what they want to get done. And like I said in my first statement, it sounds like a huge opportunity to me!