Hi, Can you share your experience related to nofollow here? If i want to suggest a website to the other internet users via comment, will I get little benefits from commenting or not??? Thanks
Commenting with no follow links has the only advantage on potential click through traffic. No SEO benefit. SEO rules are pretty simple - a nofollow is just that.
It's still important to comment on nofollow blogs / websites, it gets your name 'out there'. If I comment on a blog and it happens to be dofollow, then 'bonus', but I'm not gonna go chasing them. I don't agree with the idea of chasing dofollows, unless I have something genuinely useful or relevant to say. Maybe I'm just too honest John.
dofollow is only for PR ... stop wasting time chasing it. comment away on no-follow as it's good for getting sites indexed & providing anchor text to help serps. The direct visitors you receive will not be worth your time as 1 per day is not going to help your site or income out much at all.
it useful anyway, may be somebody click on link, read your article and put link to you on social/blog/forum
yes it is useful. it is a powerful way of building backlinks to your site, but make sure you target blogs with similar themes to your own as these are esepcially good links
Commenting to no follow blogs is still worthy even though it dont generate or give you backlinks, its a way to generate traffic. How? When you giove a good blog comment and you leave a link, other blog commentors might click on your link.
Well commenting on websites with 'no follow' attributes is as important as commenting on websites without 'no follow' attribute. 'No follow' is meant for search engine crawlers and cannot stop users from coming to your website. At the end of the day the main idea behind SEO is to get more traffic. If you can get that traffic regardless of where your website ranks, it would be a win win situation.
I am agree with this statement. If you are commenting on NO Follow blogs then you shud go for relevant theme to your niche. As i know about no follow they are not consider less than do follow but only drawback is no follow does not allow passage of PR. It is only difference between no follow and do follow. So it is still useful...................
You can increase the volume of links to your website as well as potentially generating more traffic. The only problem is the quality of the link is not great as it is not followed by Google.
As someone who blogs a lot, I can tell you it's quite obvious who's commenting just for links. I always delete such comments because I figure you should just go and get your own goddam traffic and quit being such a suck-ass your whole life. But that's just me.
Are you commenting just for the link, or are you really contributing something useful to the discussion (and by useful I mean useful to the other readers, not your search engine marketing efforts)? That's a pretty good summary. Same here. I don't chase after dofollow links at all - I'm more interested in "getting the word out" when I promote something. And when I'm commenting on a blog, I'm doing it to participate in a discussion, not to promote something. Wrong on the first part. DoFollow also affects your rankings as well. Also, you never know who your visitors are going to be either. One day it could be Joe Sixpack, the next day it could be Matt Cutts or Rand Fishkin, or even Danny Sullivan, Jeffrey Zeldman, Stephanie Sullivan, Molly Holzschlag, Eric Meyer, or someone else who's really influencial in a particular industry/niche (SEO and Web design here, respectively) who may find your comment so useful that they end up blogging about it (hey, check out this really cool site I found!). Basically, when commenting on blogs, do so to contribute to the discussion and network (form relationships with others), not to get the backlink. Exactly. It won't always happen, but it is entirely possible that it could. Sorry, but I didn't understand what you said. Could you elaborate for me please? It's not actually that powerful - look at how many links are on a typical blog page - then divide the toolbar PageRank data (which is usually old anyway) for that page by the number of links. As far as "themes" go - why not use regular language instead and say something like "topic"? Those links have rel="nofollow" applied, and for a very good reason. Especially if you can separate yourself from the crowd, by either being one of the first to comment, leaving a long well-thought out (and relevant) comment in a flood of short comments, leaving a short (but still insighful and relevant) comment in a torrent of long comments, etc... Only for traffic. rel="nofollow" is just a site owner's way of pulling a Jedi Mind Trick on the search engines ("This is not the link you are looking for. Move along.") You sir, are to be commended for that. +rep+ added. A little bit? Many of the comments I see are pure and utter bullcrap that can be smelled halfway across Staten Island (your mileage may vary, of course).
Agreed with everything Dan just said (+1) ... to elaborate on my comment do-follow and no-follow links both help search engines decide what your page is about. The more similar the content is on your page, and the page your link is on, the more beneficial it is to your SERPs for that particular topic + you also get the side benefits Dan described Of course both help your positioning in the SERPs. My first comment was there to say stop chasing PR, not that nofollow is the only way to help your rankings. A link on a well themed page is a good link to your site, follow or nofollow. Thanks for making my reply make more sense. Just don't kid yourself that you are just commenting to add to the conversation (only very rarely will someone do this) ... if that's the case leave the url field blank and just leave your comment.