Are nofollow links anything to have?

Are you guys saying that when Google runs into a nofollow link that it kills that process and doesn't follow through? Google turning down information? Google may provide a lower score to the link but I am sure they will follow through.

 

i agree with above poster, google still follows with lower rank

 

I have always stood by the decision that even if a Blog or Website is "nofollow"; then a link will still be helpful.

This is because you can obtain new website visitors through that link. Every website visitor is always a good website visitor..

Unless it's a "fed" .. LOL

 

there's a lot of SEO debate about that. here is a direct quote from Matt Cutts from Google on what happens and the use of nofollow on an individual link level and a page level.

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A) Yes – webmasters can feel free to use nofollow internally to help tell Googlebot which pages they want to receive link juice from other pages
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(Matt's precise words were: The nofollow attribute is just a mechanism that gives webmasters the ability to modify PageRank flow at link-level granularity. Plenty of other mechanisms would also work (e.g. a link through a page that is robot.txt'ed out), but nofollow on individual links is simpler for some folks to use. There's no stigma to using nofollow, even on your own internal links; for Google, nofollow'ed links are dropped out of our link graph; we don't even use such links for discovery. By the way, the nofollow meta tag does that same thing, but at a page level.)..

More available at seomoz dot org/blog/questions-answers-with-googles-spam-guru

Please note the blog conversation was from 2007. the article also talks about directory linking.

 

Any link is worth having just for traffic alone. Each search engine tends to treat the nofollow tag differently.

Besides, just because a link itself is not nofollow, it doesn't mean that the spider would be allowed to follow it. There are many ways that a site could block or at least make it very difficult for the search engine to crawl the site.

 

no pr deliver, but can help you ranking

 

another example of Google spreading disinformation. They definitely DO use the nofollow links for discovery, as we tested this a while back. We created pages that could ONLY be reached from nofollow links, and guess what? No PR, but indexed.

Google actively try to confuse you because it's in their interests to do so, and using someone like Matt Cutts means there's no legal problem doing it. Why do they do it? The less sure anyone is about how the machine works, the less likely anyone s to be able to game it.

 

Well, blogs commenting is a way to create the good backlinks for the websites. These are long term backlinks and you can make it very easily. Google treated is very good as per backlinks concern.

 

Great post, my friend. + rep!

 

Agreed and I can quote another such example from Matt Cutt about Meta Keywords:
http://www.mattcutts.com/blog/keywords-meta-tag-in-web-search/

Thanks

 

nofollow means ur link is not active dear

 

That's right .I's a biasic knowledge every newbie who learns SEO.

 

nofollow links are links to check other sites linking to your site here and see if they are follow or nofollow

 

I'll just sum this thread up. Nofollow links are good to have, but not as good as dofollow.

Even though they're nofollow links - get them! They help your website.

 

Comment on nofollow link is good for traffic only, not for serp or backlink.
If you want to raise your backlink and serp, you must choose dofollow only.

 

That is true. But I don't agree with it though. I've managed to rise in the SERP without dofollow links, buddy