Why NoFollow Should Only Be Used on Content You Don’t Control

The idea of the NoFollow attribute on links was to help prevent spam from appearing on user generated content sites, particularly Wikipedia. It was intended as a way to tell Google (and eventually all major search engines) that a link was not supposed to transfer any “link juice” to the recipient of the link. In essence, it was designed to stop SEO spammers from trying to insert their links where they didn’t belong for the sake of improved rankings.

It has become an abused attribute. This needs to stop.

Modern use of nofollow by many websites is to prevent link juice “leakage” from a website onto other websites. Many put the attribute on any link that isn’t internal. Some go so far as to put it on every link, internal or external. This is ludicrous.

There may be some merits to the idea that leaking PageRank juice to others is a detriment to the optimization of a website, but if there is, it’s minimal. I’ve seen websites that have a completely closed nofollow policy that doesn’t “leak” any juice at all that have major troubles ranking and I’ve seen sites (such as all of my sites) that rank exceptionally well while giving link value to everyone.

There are exceptions. UGC, as mentioned before, should have nofollow attributes attached to links that are not vetted. If it’s a UGC site that passes through the eyes and scrutiny of an editor, the nofollow attribute isn’t necessary. If it goes live immediate, it’s necessary.

Comments or other areas where links can be added by anyone should also be nofollow. Some use plugins like CommentLuv to encourage comments by making links followed. This is up to site owner and as long as the comments and links are vetted I have no problem with it at all. If the links in comments aren’t vetted, I don’t suggest it.

Otherwise, there should never be nofollow links on websites. If a link is good enough to post, it’s good enough to get juice. Trying to sculpt or channel your link juice is futile, ineffective, and an argument can be made that it’s actually more damaging than good.

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Lloydspharmacy loses third boss in two-and-a-half years

1 March, 2013 | By Tiffany Holland

The UK boss of Lloydspharmacy Mark James has stepped down as the pharmaceutical retailer appoints its fourth managing director in two-and-a-half years.

James left the business yesterday after less than a year as managing director of Lloydspharmacy UK’s parent company Celesio UK. He has been replaced by the managing director of the group’s Irish division Cormach Tobin with immediate effect.

James was appointed to lead the UK arm of the pharmaceutical retailer in April last year as the company revealed a new Celesio UK country board structure which included its wholesale division AAH, where James had been group managing director.

Prior to this former Woolworths boss Tony Page had headed the business as Lloydspharmacy managing director from February 2011 but left almost a year later in January 2012.

Before Page, the business was without a boss for a year after Richard Smith exited the business in 2010.

Lloydspharmacy declined to say why James exited the business but a source close to the situation said his lack of retail experience had contributed to his departure.

Lloydspharmacy has been the subject of huge change of late. Two of its top team - chief commercial officer Steve Gray and business efficiency director Philip Streatfield - left in May last year and shortly after the company made 120 head office redundancies.

The retailer then posted a 45% pre-tax profit plummet to £57.2m for 2012.

But more recently, the retailer has attempted to boost business by trialling a more service-led offer and a store refresh across its whole European store estate. But it emerged it had closed its trial Healthcare Villages in Thurrock and Brent Cross.

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Lloydspharmacy loses third boss in two-and-a-half years

1 March, 2013 | By Tiffany Holland

The UK boss of Lloydspharmacy Mark James has stepped down as the pharmaceutical retailer appoints its fourth managing director in two-and-a-half years.

James left the business yesterday after less than a year as managing director of Lloydspharmacy UK’s parent company Celesio UK. He has been replaced by the managing director of the group’s Irish division Cormach Tobin with immediate effect.

James was appointed to lead the UK arm of the pharmaceutical retailer in April last year as the company revealed a new Celesio UK country board structure which included its wholesale division AAH, where James had been group managing director.

Prior to this former Woolworths boss Tony Page had headed the business as Lloydspharmacy managing director from February 2011 but left almost a year later in January 2012.

Before Page, the business was without a boss for a year after Richard Smith exited the business in 2010.

Lloydspharmacy declined to say why James exited the business but a source close to the situation said his lack of retail experience had contributed to his departure.

Lloydspharmacy has been the subject of huge change of late. Two of its top team - chief commercial officer Steve Gray and business efficiency director Philip Streatfield - left in May last year and shortly after the company made 120 head office redundancies.

The retailer then posted a 45% pre-tax profit plummet to £57.2m for 2012.

But more recently, the retailer has attempted to boost business by trialling a more service-led offer and a store refresh across its whole European store estate. But it emerged it had closed its trial Healthcare Villages in Thurrock and Brent Cross.

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Music (Bookshelf)

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Music is an art form that involves organized and audible sounds and silence. It is usually expressed in terms of pitch (which includes melody and harmony), rhythm (which includes tempo and meter), and the quality of sound (which includes timbre, articulation, dynamics, and texture). Music may also involve generative forms in time through the construction of patterns and combinations of natural stimuli, principally sound. Music may be used for artistic or aesthetic, communicative, entertainment, or ceremonial purposes. The definition of what constitutes music varies according to culture and social context.

Within "the arts", music can be classified as a performing art, a fine art, or an auditory art form.

—Excerpted from Music on Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia.

See also Opera (Bookshelf)

Contents 1 Musicians / Biographies 2 Music Collections 3 Music History 4 Music Instruction 4.1 Voice 4.2 Instruments 4.3 Music appreciation 4.4 Theory 5 Music Literature 6 Other

Musicians / Biographies

• Beethoven  (HTML, LilyPond, MIDI)

by Fischer, George Alexander

• Beethoven's Letters Vol 1 , Vol 2  (HTML)

compiled by Köchel, Ludwig Ritter von and Nohl, Ludwig. Translated by Wallace, Grace, Lady

• Mémoires de Hector Berlioz  (French)

by Hector Berlioz

• Portraits et études; Lettres inédites de Georges Bizet  (French)

by Georges Bizet

• Sixty Years of California Song 

by Margaret Blake-Alverson

• Life of Chopin 

by Martha Elizabeth Duncan Walker Cook

• Frederick Chopin as a Man and Musician 

by Frederick Niecks

• Haydn 

by Hadden, J. Cuthbert

• Letters of Franz Liszt -- Volume 1 

trans. by Constance Bache

• Letters of Franz Liszt -- Volume 2 

trans. by Constance Bache

• Edward MacDowell 

by Lawrence Gilman

• Gedenkrede auf Wolfgang Amade Mozart  (German)

by Richard Beer-Hofmann

• The Letters of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart — Volume 01 

trans. by Lady Grace Wallace

• Mozart: the man and the artist, as revealed in his own words 

trans. by Henry Edward Krehbiel

• Cardinal Newman as a Musician  (HTML, MIDI)

by Bellasis, Edward

• Musical Memories 

by Saint-Saëns, trans. Edwin Gile Rich

• Sketch of Handel and Beethoven: Two Lectures, Delivered in the Lecture Hall of the Wimbledon Village Club 

by Thomas Hanly Ball

• Famous Violinists of To-day and Yesterday  (HTML)

by Lahee, Henry C.

• Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great - Volume 14 - Great Musicians  (HTML)

by Hubbard, Elbert, 1856-1915

• Musicians of To-day 

by Rolland, Romain

• Story-Lives of Great Musicians  (HTML, MIDI)

by Rowbotham, Francis Jameson

• The World's Great Men of Music; Story-Lives of Master Musicians  (HTML)

by Brower, Harriette, 1869-1928

• Contemporary American Composers 

by Hughes, Rupert

Also see: Child's Own Book of Great Musicians (Bookshelf)

Music Collections

• Cowboy Songs and Other Frontier Ballads  (HTML, PDF, Finale, MIDI)

by Various

• The Good Old Songs We Used to Sing, '61 to '65  (HTML, PDF, MIDI)

by Oldroyd, Osbourne H.

• Slavery's Passed Away and Other Songs  (HTML, LilyPond, MIDI)

by Various

The Shanty Book, Part I, Sailor Shanties  (HTML, MIDI) (A DP 10K title)

by Terry, Richard Runciman

• The Liberty Minstrel  (HTML, LilyPond, MIDI, PDF)

by Clark, George W.

• Indian Story and Song  (HTML, MIDI, PDF, XML)

by Fletcher, Alice C.

• Wit and Mirth, or Pills to Purge Melancholy, Vol. 5  (HTML, MIDI)

by D'Urfey, Thomas

Hymns

• A Collection of Gospel Hymns in Ojibway and English 

Printed for International and Colportage Mission of Algoma and the North-west

Music History

• Critical & Historical Essays; Lectures delivered at Columbia University  (HTML, LilyPond, MIDI)

by MacDowell, Edward, 1860-1908; edited by Baltzell, W. J.

• A Popular History of the Art of Music From the Earliest Times Until the Present  (HTML, PDF, MIDI)

by Mathews, W. S. B. (William Smythe Babcock), 1837-1912

• Woman's Work in Music  (HTML)

by Elson, Arthur

• The Pianoforte Sonata  (HTML, LilyPond, MIDI)

by Shedlock, J.S.

• Critical and Historical Essays 

by MacDowell, Edward

• Shakespeare and Music  (HTML, MIDI)

by Naylor, Edward W.

• Music and Some Highly Musical People  (HTML, MIDI)

by Trotter, James M. (account of 19th C. African-American musicians and composers)

Music Instruction

Voice

• Caruso and Tetrazzini on the Art of Singing  (HTML)

by Mathews, W. S. B.

• The Psychology of Singing  (HTML)

by Taylor, David Clark 1871-1918

• The Child-Voice in Singing; treated from a physiological and a practical standpoint and especially adapted to schools and boy choirs 

by Howard, Francis E.

• How to sing 

by Lehmann, Lilli

• Resonance in Singing and Speaking  (HTML, MIDI)

by Fillebrown, Thomas 1836-1908

• Voice Production in Singing and Speaking  (HTML, MIDI)

by Mills, Wesley 1847-1915

• Style in Singing  (HTML, MIDI)

by Haslam, W.E. 1847-1915

• Great Singers on the Art of Singing: Educational Conferences with Foremost Artists 

by James Francis Cooke

• The Voice: Its Production, Care and Preservation 

by Miller, Frank E.

• Vocal Mastery : Talks with Master Singers and Teachers 

by Brower, Harriette

• The Boy's Voice : A Book of Practical Information on The Training of Boys' Voices For Church Choirs, &c. 

by Curwen, John Spencer

• The Mechanism of the Human Voice 

by Behnke, Emil

• The Head Voice and Other Problems : Practical Talks on Singing 

by D. A. Clippinger

• Observations on the Florid Song, or Sentiments on the Ancient and Modern Singers  (Translation of 1723 Italian treatise)

by Pier Francesco Tosi

Instruments

• Piano Mastery: Talks with Master Pianists and Teachers 

by Harriette Brower

• Piano and Song: How to Teach, How to Learn, and How to Form a Judgment of Musical Performances 

by Friedrich Wieck, trans. Mary P. Nichols

• Great Pianists on Piano Playing 

by Cooke, James Francis

• The Pianolist; A Guide for Pianola Players 

by Kobbé, Gustav, 1857-1918

• Violin Mastery : Talks with Master Violinists and Teachers 

by Martens, Frederick Herman

Music appreciation

• How to Listen to Music, 7th ed.; Hints and Suggestions to Untaught Lovers of the Art  (HTML, LilyPond, MIDI)

by Krehbiel, Henry Edward, 1854-1923.

• Music: An Art and a Language 

by Spalding, Walter Raymond

• Music As A Language: Lectures to Music Students 

by Ethel Home

• For Every Music Lover: A Series of Practical Essays on Music 

by Aubertine Woodward Moore

Theory

• Lessons in Music Form; A Manual of Analysis of All the Structural Factors and Designs Employed in Musical Composition  (HTML)

by Goetschius, Percy, 1853-1943

• Music Notation and Terminology  (HTML, MIDI)

by Gehrkens, Karl Wilson, 1882-1975

Music Literature

• Charles Dickens and Music  (HTML, LilyPond, MIDI)

by Lightwood, James T.

• Old Fogy; His Musical Opinions and Grotesques  (HTML)

by Huneker, James, 1860-1921

Other

• The Standard Oratorios; Their Stories, Their Music, And Their Composers 

by Upton, George P. (George Putnam), 1834-1919

• Chopin and Other Musical Essays  (HTML)

by Finck, Henry Theophilus, 1854-1926

• Music talks with children 

by Tapper, Thomas

• Entwurf einer neuen Ästhetik der Tonkunst  (German)

by Ferruccio Busoni

• Sketch of a New Esthetic of Music 

by Ferruccio Busoni, trans. Theodore Baker

• How the Piano Came to Be 

by Ellye Howell Glover

• Piano Tuning: A Simple and Accurate Method for Amateurs 

by J. Cree Fischer

• A Treatise on Simple Counterpoint in Forty Lessons  (HTML)

by Friedrich J. Lehmann

• Essentials in Conducting 

by Gehrkens, Karl Wilson, 1882-1975

• On Conducting (Üeber Das Dirigiren) : a Treatise on Style in the Execution of Classical Music 

by Richard Wagner

• The Orchestral Conductor : Theory of His Art 

by Berlioz, Hector

• Advice to Young Musicians. Musikalische Haus- und Lebens-Regeln  (German and English translation)

by Robert Schumann

• On the Execution of Music, and Principally of Ancient Music 

by Saint-Saëns, Trans. Henry P. Bowie

• Symphonies and Their Meaning; Third Series, Modern Symphonies 

by Goepp, Philip H.

• St. Gregory and the Gregorian Music 

by Wyatt, E. G. P.

• The Eurhythmics of Jaques-Dalcroze 

by Jaques-Dalcroze, Émile

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