I have a resource link page (basically for link exchange). It is a nofollow right now. It has PR2. What is better, dofollow link resource page or nofollow link resource page? What difference can it make? Any suggestions or comments.
Recommendation: Lose it... It's likely almost worthless. If you want to reciprocal link try to find pages on their site relative to the page on your site about a similar topic, and get an contextual link. And have them to do the same... MUCH better than using resouce/links pages. And make sure that the sites you link to are someone you absolutely trust. If you link to a site that is good today, then tomorrow they throw up viagra content on the page you're linking to and get reported and penalized by Google, you can get penalized for promoting a URL on a bad neighborhood site.
Google is placing heavy weightage on off-page factors like number and quality of backlinks for calculating page rank and search engine position. That is the cause of things like these - link reciprocals, link exchange, buy/sell links, etc. And then they are saying they are against selling links. What a contrarian statement. Content worth need to be judged based on sole worthiness of the in page content alone, and less value placed on things like number of backlinks to a site. Its because the algorithms are unable to distinguish between what is good, relevant, unique, interesting content ('just what I was looking for') and what is filler, nonsense, keyword stuffed pages that has good number of backlinks through link exchanges. The whole point of dofollow, nofollow, link juice, pagerank sculpting is flawed at the base. A link is just a link and its value should be judged contextually with relation to surrounding context-worthy content. For example, if you leave a particularly good meaning comment that is thoughtful, inquisitive and promotes reader eagerness to know more on the subject by clicking through your link as part of the comment, just because that comment is marked nofollow, the search engine tangentially divides path with human judgment - the 'value' that search engine sees in content worthiness should be as closely matched to the 'value' that a human visitor would see. Of course, not all humans view contents with unbiased judgements, but the fact is that pagerank is trying to build a faceless mathematical formula for judging value,relevancy and effectiveness of content. There is no fixed formula for content quality. Even a two-line pithy insightful humorous comment may make my day even though it is a nofollow compared to a dofollow, two paragraph comment that contains nothing but 'hi how great this page is and so on and so forth...
I've almost never had "resource pages" on my own sites. I don't feel there is a direct need for them. A blogroll feels a lot more relevant. Anything useless, such as a links page with car insurance on your weight loss blog can probably only do more harm than good, no matter which way you go. Links in "smart places" is the way to go.
If you use dofollow link, then it will pass your pr link juice to your link partners. But, if you also use nofollow link, then other webmasters will not also agree on this and might delete your link from their resource page.
Always Google count only do-follow links. Only do-follow links are good for our sites. And Google read it easily. When will Google crawl on your site if your site in do-follow than Google crawl your site in their data base and Your site will be in cached.
Yeah, if you get a do-follow links from other site you can get the link juice from the site, if the link is no-follow, you just get traffic and just in the ad purpose not SEO!
I got a link for my site and it is no-follow link. Now this link appears in the back links of my site. Can anyone here tell me how is it possible if Google is not reading no-follow links ?
Link will be shown easily as a back link. But no-follow link not profitable for our sites. When u will get any link from any sites. When site will be index than your link will shown but no-follow link not beneficial for our site.
I'm confused about dofollow links. Can anyone tell me which should be dofollow, the link which containing my link on his page or pointing my site as dofollow? If pointing my site as dofollow is important then how to do that. I've done some submission of my site, but when I'm checking the site is not pointing my site as dofollow. Then what is the solution. Plz somebody help me understanding. Thank you in advance.
There are two main factors of a successful website. 1. Importance (how many click your site away from the super authority site(s) of your niche - this is not the Google #1 ) 2. Relevance Understanding dofollow and nofollow links are subject of importance. nofollow link - I do not want to pass importance to the page dofollow link - This page is useful and want to pass part of my importance factor to it. I want this page to be part of my food chain.