Hi, Well, we all know that nofollow does not pass PR. But it appears alot of link building is about gaining trust now days. Additionally, if you develop a trusted domain, your site can become more robust to an influx of links, etc. So I wonder if you comment useful comments, with an actual name as the anchor text on highly authorative blogs (that use nofollow on comment links), if this would help pass a notoin of a "trust rank" to your domain to help see better benifits from your other link building efforts? Whats your thoughts?
I've been thinking about this. In theory nofollow does not pass the link juice, but i've seen sites getting high PR on the back of all nofollow links. Maybe they still counts just not as much as do follow one?
'No follow' or 'do follow' links, the idea is to channelize more traffic to your website/blog. I personally never see link building from a PR connotation and view it as potential source to drive classified traffic to my website.
Nofollow links do not pass link juice but they still get crawled, they help your indexing and also may possibly give some points towards your SERP rankings.
Yes i also feel this thing. I regular post comments on no follow blogs and i feel some +ve response. I am not saying they give jump in SERP's, but if you follow relevancy to your site niche then somewhere you get trust rank which help little bit in SERP's. And my target always to gain SERP's not PR. That's why regular post comments ......................
NoFollow means No Passing Of Anything No Follow Blogs are a waste of you time unless you want to just write. You are only creating pages for the Blog. They benefit, you don't.
I totally disagree with this comment. I have been driving quite some traffic from no follow blogs. When you write some interesting comments and write a lot on other blog, reader are going to see you as an authoritive figure and will check out your site as well. It is not useless to comment on no follow blogs! I would like to add to this that you should not be so focussed on getting PR, but more on driving targeted traffic. As for If nothing passes a no follow link, then why are they getting indexed in yahoo?
Yes, I am certainly not focused on PR, but am focused on serps. Just put in the "don't pass PR" comment to aviod the typical "Nofollow won't pass PR" sort of responses (which we have seemed to avoid). Prefer to focus on serps rather than links with click through as you can just get sooo targeted when you can pick your search terms. Yeah, I'm not so sure that "No follow" means no passing of anything, it might be the case, but I have certainly experienced pages without external links being indexed when the only internal linking was through nofollow, so at the very least if the big G sees that a page exists by seeing a nofollow link, it still wants to store it. For example, one of my sites had a good wikipedia link for about a year on a pretty good wikipedia page. This was all in the time that Wikipedia were nofollowing the links, so I think it might be possible that that has helped this site with a sort on niche - authority type metric deep in the algorithm. Sure, that link won't pass serps, but maybe having had that link means that other links are more likley to pass full serps, as the domain may algorithmically appear trustowrthy. It would be great if anyone had any links or references on more info on this stuff. Other opinions welcome too.
unfortunately reference from google confirms that no follow means no crawl, no PR and not even indexed. but youre right, I have seen pages get high rank with linkbacks from high rank nofollow page.