Cutting off the Google Backlink Juice
We recently received a couple of comments about the same post.
Why are you linking to them? This is giving them Google ranking power.
Jonathan
You better disable that hyperlink or put rel='nofollow' tags on the link to their site. You're giving them Google backlink juice by linking to them.
Eugene
The reason we link to sites like Cash N Minutes.com is to let consumers see what we're talking about. And hopefully, once they've seen enough of these scam sites, they'll learn to recognize them in an instant--before it's too late.
That said, we're certainly not interested in helping any of these sites rise in any search engine's rankings, so we appreciate the feedback from Jonathan and Eugene. Henceforth, we'll make sure to add "nofollow" tags to all dubious sites we blog about. We've already added "'nofollow" tags to the post in question, and will do the same for all our previous posts as well.