NO FOLLOW tag. Killing Our SERPs?

I come across more and more people who believe that no follow tag wth a link to your site will actually do you harm. On the other hand - that is quite logic that noone is responsible for who and how link t his site - so why should that harm? What do you think about it?

 

Erm I recently read an article by a person who actually tested the theory and low and behold he was gaining anchor text inheritage on the SERP's with nofollow links.

So either the Nofollow thing is just a myth, or he was bullsh****ing.

 

It can't do you harm. No follow tag just doesn't pass any (or a very small amount) juice to your website, that's all.

 

Nofollow tagged links are still helpful. People can still click on the links!

For example if you have 10,000+ nofollow links on numerous different related websites think of the potential refferal traffic.

 

I think the no follow tag still gives juice to the site. Just not as much.

 

they are not harmful , they help a lot to get traffic

 

One of my pages has several no follow links from blogs and forum posts by other people.

It has gone up in serps, but not in page rank, so as far as i see it's just pr juice that does not pass, but the keywords do IMHO.

 

It's not harmful I guess.

 

I agree with you. It was proven several times.

 

Totally agreed. just because there has less and less links without nofollow tag.

 

No, they can't be harmful as of now. But Google might use this data in coming years as the fight against spam becomes more challenging.

If the site A links to site B. Assume that A uses nofollow on almost all of its outbound links, then G can figure out that there's nothing to figure out. On the other hand, if the site A doesn't use nofollow as such.. but when it links to site B then it uses nofollow. In this case if G finds similar behaviour on other sites that are linking to site B, then G has the right to assume that the site B isn't much trustable.

Sorry if I made it complex..

 

I don't know, it seems like if you have too many "no follow" links you end up only ranking well in Google's blog search. Trust me, you don't wanna end up in the blog search! There's no traffic there

 

hi

no follow link is not harmful to SEO , but u can give this link on any webpage than Google can't crawl this link

 

From SE point of view Its harm full

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The "only" people affected by this are sites that have no useful content or are basically affiliate marketing\made for adsense websites. Backlinks built naturally 90% of the time do NOT contain the nofollow attribute (it's not a tag). Properly building content that is unique, informational and\or entertaining will naturally build the backlinks you need to achieve proper ranking in search results.

Lets stop the crying about the nofollow attribute already.

 

Sure, you could build the best website in the world, but if you don't do some sort of advertising no one is going to know how great it is. If the content is that excellent, people will begin to advertise it for you and the organic nature of internet marketing will kick in, but someone has to know it even exists first.

 

hi,

Please fellow this links http://holbreich.de/2007/02/nofollow-considered-harmful/

 

Saying that rel="nofollow" is harmful is about as nonsensical as saying that breathing clean air is detrimental to your health. GET OVER IT.

The only thing you're seeing is the anchor text on the links being given weight. Yes, the link is acknowledged as being there, yes, the anchor text is being counted, but the link itself is not being followed. Seriously - how else do you think blog spammers tend to rank so damn well on keywords targeting their sites with comments left on sites that have nothing to do with theirs (like San Diego car dealers having their links left on blogs about Jack Russell Terriers via the blogs' comments despite being no-followed)?

(Which when you think about it, is why I advocate de-linking the first comment left by a new person, then the 2nd through X number being no-followed, and only after a commenter has established some credibility no-following his/her comments. Of course, I also advocate having all blog comments that include a link in the comment to be moderated, but that's beside the point.)

 

Does this bit " anchor text inheritage " , mean that the Link Text words were still appearing and effectively slightly upping the PR?

 

Directly it certainly is not harmful, but indirectly the nofollow tag is doing some little damage. Some ready made content management system, scripts, blogger applications, forums, etc... come with a preinstalled nofollow tag, either for outgoing links, comments or any other section where your link could be inserted.

Now many users, who use such scripts/applications have no clue as to what the heck a nofollow tag is. One day they visit your website and post about it either on their own site or somewhere else where the noffolow tag is enabled. Even though such a link is a natural link, it won't count for google.

Such occasions may not be usual, but it does happen from time to time and when it does a natural link is lost.