HuffingtonPost.com goes NoFollow on their blog section

Hey,
Just wanted to let you all know
Huffpost just made all 'blog section links' nofollow retroactively...
Now getting real links from staff writers is going to be the real task. I guess prices will be high too.

I send my condolences to all the families that are not going to eat in the next couple months due to the change until their supporters will find a new place to spread their spammy links

Anyway, just wanted to share, and to say hello, been some times since I posted here

yea they did a real number on their blog

actually its quite genius - they opened up their blogging platform to many more bloggers (nearly anyone can get an author account these days with a bit of searching), and any new post from bloggers using the new 'athena' platform will have their article set to 'noindex' 'nofollow' which is annoying AF. Huffpo however does have a switch that if your article gets enough social shares, then they will bump it up to the main site. This way they get a shit ton of free content and the good stuff gets promoted.

but yea, it got much harder to acquire legit links from huffpo. tbh i dont think huffpo links were worth much to begin with, the site has been spammed out for about 2 yrs now, with 1000's of articles published daily i began to question the value of their links

Though it applies new rule of "no follow"link, I still consider HuffPo is good for branding our website considering its number of visitors and good for our portfolio too- to be featured on HuffPo as some people still really see it.

i def agree that being able to say "as featured on huffington post" has some value
but in terms of link equity
its slim to none