Are dofollow backlinks the only one that cares?

Well, basically the question of the title, are dofollow backlinks the only ones that that are important?

I still can´t believe that Google, Yahoo and the other SE are really not following the nofollow links too.

Thank you.

 

I do not think it's the only factor, but I do agree that it is one of the major contributing factor.

 

I do agree with you..

 

Nofollow links may be devalued but I still suspect they count for something.

 

Nofollow links are not really considered quality links I believe but they still count for something. Dofollow of course are the best but having a good amount of nofollow ones doesn't hurt you at all.

 

Here's my "suspicion" (that's all, just a suspicion) — If Google or Yahoo or any other mega-important site gave you a nofollow link from their home page, it would indeed count in their algorithms. Probably big-time, nofollow or not.

Can I prove it? No. I'm just trying to use common sense.

 

I think they count as in helping to dicover new pages, but maybe not in backlink count.
However for some links the important part is the traffic they can bring in, regardless of search engines.
So, dofollow links are not the only one that cares.

 

I don't bother differentiating between dofollow and nofollow. I get either as I think they could for something regardless of the tags and it's not worth my time to leave a page simply because a firefox addon says it's not worth the time because it's a "nofollow".

As a side note, nofollows aren't worthless. A well placed nofollow link can bring hundreds or thousands of visitors to your site. They may not help much in terms of SE, but can provide a lot of direct traffic.

 

It seems a mix of nofollow and dofollow links should be good. Why? I don't know.

It just seems natural and I think that is something Google will like. There is probably some kind of "natural" ratio that can be used for something.

 

if nofollow links can bring good traffic then why does everyone go for or as in prefer dofollows

 

Nofollows are important in my opinion as if you only have do-follow links your link profile to google yehoo etc.. wont look natural.

The perfect link profile in a search engines eyes is organic and by default will include dofollow and nofollow links in similar numbers.

I'm not sure nofollows add much weight but not having them could potentially work againt you.

 

Nofollow links just mean that the Google's crawler should not pursue that link or explore it. This means when the crawler sees you nofollow link, it will not go to index or crawl that page. It is just a method for Google to save their resources and allow their crawler to work faster. Will you get credit for the link? You might but it will not count toward your PR.

 

i heard that on onfollow link the anchor text is not counted as well, so basically if you comment on a no follow blog than you can use you name instead of your keywords and in that way it doest looks like spam

 

A link is a link, a doorway to your site. Though google may don't crawl your site by that link, but it still can drive u some traffic, and the real traffic, is that also a good thing??

 

For google, and no-follow link just means that Google won't count it towards the Google PageRank it assigns you.

 

nofollow maybe doesn't give you any PR juice but it can give you a lot of traffic if you use it properly.

 

There’s a pretty big debate being waged on websites today between the “no follow” link contingent and the “do follow” advocates. Which side of the camp are you on? Maybe you haven’t decided because you really aren’t sure how each type of link works.

No follow links were first developed by Google as a way to control spam links on blogs and other sites. There was a valid complaint that many legitimate sites were being penalized if they had a large number of links to other sites with little or no value. By adding the no follow tag to any links (rel=“nofollow”), blog publishers and forum owners were provided a tool to prevent spammers from posting endless useless comments simply to get a free link back to a site that you might not want to be associated with.

A “no follow” link gives Google and other major search engines specific instructions. When a “no follow” code is part of a link, the theory goes that Google will NOT follow the link to the other page and it will NOT include the link when calculating Page Rank for your web page.

On the other hand, it’s nice to share some link juice with those who take the time to comment on your blog, sign your guest book or otherwise contribute something of value to your site. After all, wouldn’t you like them to return the favor to you some day?

As a link builder, we often get requests to find only “do follow” links for our clients. But should they really insist on that? Should you count the ratio of no follow to do follow links to your site (or from your site) to try and figure out the perfect balance?

Three Good Reasons Not to Care

In our opinion, you really don’t need to worry too much about ratios or link counts. Here are three good reasons why:

1. The search engines expect to see a balance of “no follow” and “do follow” links to your site. What those exact ratios are can be debated, but it is clear that you should not be trying to get every link to your site as a “do follow”.

2. We haven’t seen any concrete proof that the three major search engines aren’t passing some link juice through “no follows”. In fact, we have seen some pretty good articles indicating that they feel they received some good link love from “no follow” links from authority sites.

3. Focus on getting links for traffic and you won’t have to worry about it at all. This is often lost with link builders. So much emphasis is place on getting link juice for search engine rankings, that many forget that the best links of all bring real traffic to your site. If you get a link that sends you meaningful traffic, do you really care if it is “no follow” or “do follow”?

It all boils down to common sense – a balance of inbound links will generally do more to help your site when compared to concentrating on one method of link building. When in doubt, if it’s a quality site that wants to link to you, take the link, whether it is “do follow” or “no follow”.

 

Some how Do-Follow blogs are really effective, But in some cases No-Follow links also counted by Bots.

 

Yes Google Doesn't count the No follow Link as Back links. I thinks No follow links Give High traffic and high SERPs.

 

technically, the answer to your question is "yes"....but we believe it to be true that if the SE algorithms see ALL do-follow and NO no-follow...well, isn't that kind of fishy?