Are nofollow links useful?

I submit them all.

 

no follow linksjust effective if you comment a blog at the first position

 

I think this help page on nofollow is the definitive guide where Google is concerned: http://www.google.com/support/webmasters/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=96569

 

Quite an interesting read but still very confusing! Can't really understand if Matt really knows what he is trying to explain? Too many questions there, especially by Danny Sullivan but Matt has deliberately chosen to ignore most of his legitimate questions! I think nofollow links are still useful for link building purposes, we don't really have to worry about those nofollowing links on their sites. As long as we get a link, its all fine I guess

Can someone offer a better explanation of what Matt is basically trying to explain?

 

I think to get the maximum from Search Engine Juice, every webmaster should combine both no-follow and do-follow link building strategies.

For the main 2 reasons:
1. We do not know how search engine bots will change their policy regarding no-follow and do-follow links for future.
2. No-follow links from High PR sites are really worth your time and effort, as no business can exist without TARGETED audience. So you can get huge Targeted traffic from no-follow sites that will only increase your chance for more profit.

 

well, they can at least be clicked on

 

Hi,

No follow link is good for traffic for example some bookmarking sites has no follow link but if you come to home page of that bookmarking site then you can have good traffic.

thanks

 

All links count. The nofollow links only get half the credit or juice or whatever term you like.

 

Think of it this way (hypothetically). If you had ten million nofollow links to your website from all over the internet, with lots of them in your niche, just imagine the traffic you might get!

If that's true (that is, the traffic benefit), then yes, nofollow links can be helpful.

 

Soon nofollow will be really usefull =)

 

As long as they send you traffic, yes!

 

I'd be happy with 1 million links.

 

They do serve a purpose. Yes, if your looking for sales, leads and traffic directly from blogs.

AND. Just post on a few prominent nofollow blogs. Eventually you will notice a PR increase.

NOTE: I tested this on one domain. I got PR 1. So it did seem to help

Can it generate leads ? YES
Can it generate sales ? YES
Can it generate traffic ? YES
Can it generate a better ranking ? maybe (yes in my opinion, but I need to test it some more)

 

Interesting because nofollow should not pass pagerank benefit. Are you sure that's the only link building method you used for the domain?

 

Still needs testing...

But we can look at it this way.
If you only post to dofollow blogs, Google, Yahoo and MSN will suspect that your buy links and manipulating your search engine ranking.

So a healthy balance of nofollow and dofollow links should work better...

 

Think of nofollow links as your x girlfriend who was a drop dead gorgeous 10 who dumped you for what ever reason, 5 years passes and you bump into her in stealmybucks i mean starbucks, the question is, would you want to have sex with her again right after you finish drinking your $20 coffee knowing there would be no strings attached?
if the answer to this question is yes, then you know all about the usefulness of nofollow links

 

lol, you used nofollow blog commenting only or you didn't

 

there's a lot of noise about nofollow being useless in terms of pure SEO, but i don't believe this is true. google may not follow the link, thus not passing any pagerank, but it still sees the link. this increases link popularity and most likely search rankings.

 

I say no this proposition: "Any link can help as long as it's a link." Google likes "any links" but hates "just any links."
At least, this is my experience with Google. Don't give out links from your site!

Keep your site inbound rather than outbound! Inbound from highways, not country roads! Big cities are entered from highways! Country roads end up in other country roads!

 

This is terrible advice.