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I never said that i am doing this. I wanted to start a mini-discussion.

Next time you want to comment, make sure you have read everything thoroughly and stick on topic. There is no need to comments that are not associated with the topic. Thank you.

"Presenting the links as nofollow to search engines in no way contributes to cleaner, better SERPs" - are you aware of the fact that no-follow links do not pass the link juice?

So, website owner who is buying/exchanging links with another website is NOT growing their links naturally and hence, according to Google guidelines, every link should have a no-follow attribute.

"Avoid tricks intended to improve search engine rankings": i am not trying to improve my search engine rankings.

"Robbing a bank" - ?????

Who am i trying to rob? I provide EXACTLY THE SAME information on a page to both users and SE Robots. I am neither hiding my affiliate links nor cloaking ads to improve CTR.

Everything but the tag remains unaltered, i am not feeding SE robots with different texts, links or whatever.

Thank you for your answer and i am looking forward to more opinions

And oh, about the reason: I am just wondering if we get penalized for providing search engines valuable information and contributing towards the cleaner, better SERPs.

Is it bad to present a link to SE robots as a no-follow link, while normal users see it as a do-follow link?