eHow is link stingy! I always have guest authors who reference my sites in their articles but the links are no followed. This is the wrong use of nofollow. They will never be getting any link love from me let me tell you.
ehow articles get many reads although and have good search engine rankings. but from links point of view they might not be of much benefit.
eHow will bring you referred targeted traffic for sure. This type of traffic is highly valuable. The visitor came from a reputed website and the same niche. eHows backlinks are Nofollow, but they still may help your pages got indexed, only they will not contribute to your page ranks directly. Even if eHow backlinks are nofollow, they are valuable and they indirectly contribute in your SEO as well. Also they add to your nofollow backlinks count, so making your link-building more natural. Remember, NoFollow backlinks from reputed websites are not not worthless, like say, wikipedia, digg, yahoo. Many websites get content for their FAQs from eHow articles, in that case you receive dofollow backlinks. Those was a really great backlinks. Many people copy and paste eHows ( manually or using bots ) as content of their website, this process is generally automated and includes your backlink. reference; I wrote a similar post about yahoo answer just a minute ago, they both are very similar, so I just did the modifications here. Regards -Parul Sharma
No follow links still provide link juice! They just don't pass PR. Straight from the mouth of Matt Cutts.
I didn't said they provide link juice, I just said they are also helpful in SEO indirectly and not as much as dofollow links.
Ehow itself is also a useful site for getting the Ehow article ranked high in the search engines and then that can drive traffic to your site. In an of themselves one article site will not be much link juice most of the time.
NoFollow links are not completely useless. Maintaining a diverse inbound link profile is always good so some No Follow links are also good, and if they are coming from a site like Ehow.com then it will surely bring you some targeted traffic.
I have received so good - very low bounce rate with Ehow. I posted it more than 6 months ago and still get some traffic. If you have time, it is worth putting a few post even if nofollow
Sorry for digging up this old thread... But I just put a link in yahoo site explorer and its showing eHow links linking back to it. Has eHow started giving dofollow link instead of nofollow ?
It is meaningless to try to build up OBL that will be considered important to search engines via having links on eHow. However, it is a good way to attract traffic to your site. As long as you are posting great content that interest others, there will be people who will click to visit your site to find more relevant information.
there's no PR being passed through nofollow links. however, direct traffic does matter, and eHow traffic is pretty good as the others here have pointed out.