Are nofollow links totally worthless? I really doubt this. I believe that they have less weight but these do get counted. ( Though I have not tested it) And ofcourse, their presence makes your link basket natural as in todays world, one can't have more dofollow links than nofollow links if they were built naturally? Wondering what other members have to say about it.
I don't think they are worthless. Even though they may not give you any SEO help, it can sure help with targeted traffic. I get much of my forum traffic from nofollow links.
It isn't worthless but doesn't have as much strength as a dofollow. The nofollow will still give you a backlink to your site and potential traffic through that link but it does not transfer any PR link juice from the site it is on.
Nofollow links are relevant for SEO ranking of keywords, especially anchor text of the link is important. So follow links from relevant sites are more useful that dofollow links from off topic sites.
Its not totally worthless. Rather I would say its not worthless at all, it may not get you the link juice in case of PR ..but it can give you targeted traffic and help in other aspects of SEO like anchor text. Moreover, Nofollow links also makes your link profile look normal to google
I wouldn't say that nofollow links are worthless. But I would say that using nofollow is worthless. With the changes made to how nofollow works in the past few months nofollow doesn't do anyone any good. Not the site owner or the person being linked to. A better policy is to properly audit your links rather than fucking about with nofollow. Just my 2 cents.
Hmm? why's that? Would like to know more why nofollow is bad for site owner.. any explanation or link pls?
Nofollow links are still important to me. I see links from problogger's blog in my google webmaster account. (Problogger is a Nofollow). That means that google takes it as a link, but the weight is unknown.
http://www.seomoz.org/blog/whiteboard-friday-how-do-we-plug-the-nofollow-leak watch. learn. implement.
Having "Nofollow" links in a directory is a pointless as you don't get any credit whatsoever for having quality outbound links and so the juice evaporates. Take away the nofollow and it flows somewhere else anyway. But you still get credit for linking to quality sites. That's what I believe from reading every thing Googs says. My three cents worth
Thanks for all the replies.. So, these links are useful in ranking your website for keywords in anchor text. The only thing missing is PR juice.... If this is true then they are quite important I think !
yup, they're important. Even though you wouldn't get PR juice but by getting targeted traffic, you'll make your blog looks naturally.
I don't think they're worthless. Some people say the got impovement in SERP using NoFollow Links. But I never tested it. Ia agree with you, NF links will make your backlinks natural.
Nofollow links only disadvantage is that they won't get you any Page Rank but apart from that they are pretty much like a dofollow link.