Hello, often there is the view that nofollow links are worthless. A nofollow link will simply not pass any PR value to the destination urls. But this doesnt mean that these wont have any ranking factor, does it? Google will still see it as a link and will count it into the ranking calculation, thats what I think is logical to assume. What are your views or experiences?
No Follow tags are useful for if you are trying to avoid a bot from following that link for whatever reason. Maybe the anchor text doesnt match the links keywords, etc etc. There are a ton of reasons why people would use them, personally, I use them on every page that has the anchor text "Home" as my home page generally doesnt contain content related to "home", but that is just me. You want to allow the bots to follow links with anchor text that refer to the content, especially when it comes to content within your own site.
It is rumored that Yahoo and Bing ignore the nofollow rel tags, however I am still yet to find proof of this.
I think you are right. And I also heard that nofollow tag has been reduced the importance. Someone begain to worry about the spammers. It is hard to say it is good or not to build backlinks in nofollow blogs or forum. Because that depends on what you want to do. If you want to join the topic and leave a link, fine, we welcome you. But if you just want to spam, even you leave your link in dofollow blog or forums, you will be banned and your link will be deleted. So, do not care it is nofollow or dofollow. Have fun, you are just helping peoples or you are just talking.
Hi there, I don't think the no follow links are any useful for SEO point of view because Google doesn't crawl them and thus it doesn't count in back links, yes but it could be useful for increasing the traffic.
Hi, I too agree with google doesn't add any value for nofollow links and there is no SEO benefits but recently i have read an article regarding the indexing of nofollow links,just have a look this According to this, SE's follows some more quality guidelines regarding the nofollow links too..
... which further emplasizes my point. No Follow tags are extremely useful from an SEO point of view, as they do stop crawling of certain links on site. THis doesnt just refer to outgoing links, this refers to internal links as well. As an example. At the top of most pages, you have a link that says either "Home" or "Home Page". I recommend setting this as nofollow for the fact that the anchor text doesnt refer to content. For a better optimized page, I recommend either setting that to be no follow and adding keyword links at the bottom of the page that are all able top be crawled, or just set the home link as nofollow all together.
Google does't count nofollow in backlinks but all search engines like Yahoo, and MSN all include nofollow links in site backlink and if see visitors points of view its not bad.
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You have 924 posts and how can i believe you that you don't know about follow or nofollow? anyway, nofollow links are not profitable if you are promoting your website on keywords. Search engines don't count back links and don't help to ranking.
I wanted to hear peoples view about it. And its not clear if these nofollow links are really worthless regarding SERPs. There are also other views of well experienced SEOs who claim something different than what the general view here is. Talking about the amount of posts, well, look at the posts of the members here who have left a comment, they all seem to be "new" SEOs if we just take their post amount into account, and you are also one of them.
I've seen lots of posts where people have ranked high with just nofollow links. So I wouldn't count them out personally.
all things being equal, I will make comments on dofollow blogs rather than nofollow blog. Most dofollow blogs have more comments, and that means the search engines will have to crawl more frequently.
If you go to the source code of any nofollow you'll find : 'rel=nofollow' That directly orders the crawler not to follow the link / not to visit the website through that link. So its may not useful for SERP perspective. But At the end of the day you want revenue not SERP result. SE Spider doesn't yield cash for you but a human visitor does. nofollow or dofollow doesn't make any sense for a person. Assume that you are in a hot discussion forum and you give a link there and you found so many visitors on the other day. Whether your link was nofollow/dofollow is not a matter. so link where ever its is possible. Cheers. unInvited GuesT
NoFollow Links do not pass any link juice because spiders stop here. Has any one an idea why somebody with over 900 posts cannot google "nofollow"?