Don’t you ever wonder how ironic it is that we are drifting towards Web 2.0 and yet it’s becoming harder to get great links for search engine optimization?

Nowadays more and more webmasters are barring search engines from seeing or following external links. Techniques used include:

• using a rel=”nofollow” on external links,
• forwarding the links through JavaScript,
• barring pages with external links in robots.txt, and
• using 302 (temporary) redirects.

Getting links from websites employing these techniques means that your link won’t count in your search engine optimization efforts, even though you may benefit from direct traffic from those pages.

This problem is NOT only limited to traditional pages but also covers any other sites you may think of. Be it blogs, forums etc. I guess this pronounces the death of comment spammers

Yes you are right! but still too much websites available for link building.

Just like a free list of bookmarking websites and free list of directories.

Most of them are not nofollow or any redirect.