My understanding is a link back to my site with a no-follow tag will not affect search engine position/ranking in google, but is this the same for all search engines? Someone added a link to my site via Wikipedia, and I seem to be getting a lot of yahoo spiders hitting my site from this link, but no change in google or msn spiders. So as of now, it seems the only benefits are more crawling from Yahoo, and the chance someone might click on it and be taken to my site, are those the only benefits?
yea. pretty much from what I know, a nofollow will only benefit you from the actual traffic the link brings, no SEO value.
Its still worth having a no follow link but there are no other advantages other than those you have already ifdentified.
The traffic rush has slowed down a bit from yesterday, but it is still better than it was before, that's for sure! I agree this link is better than nothing.
Well, my opinion frot the stuff that I have read use nonfollow tag finally just will hurt you, not help you..the reason is that by using it you letting to the search engines (it applies most of it to google) let understand that you using seo and using seo is trying to manupilate PR..you think google likes it? By the way I just saw a thread somewhere here, how one guy added a nonfollow tag and his website went from PR5 to PR0
This is not the case at all...in fact, it's downright ridiculous. Google will not penalize you for using White Hat SEO practicies...they encourage it. Adding a "nofollow" attribute says only one thing..."don't follow the link". Almost every page on Wikipedia (around the World) has anywhere from 1 to dozens of links with a "nofollow" attribute and they are doing just fine. This attribute is widely used by millions of webmasters and has never been an issue. Take a look at this post in the official Google Blog about using the "nofollow" in your blogs: http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2005/01/preventing-comment-spam.html Here is a little excerpt: In regards to the post where the site dropped to a PR0...it was a link page. There could be a dozen reasons for why it happened...but nothing to do with the "nofollow" attribute.
There are many rel attributes to an anchor tag. These are designed to let webmasters tell the search engine the type of like it is an how it should be dealt with. There should be no issue taking care of this attribute.
lol> you are funny guy make sure you will drop me an email someday You see here is the googles trick..ya you not gonna get pentalize for using it, but when you will use it you just gonna shout to google "Hey I am using seo, I am webmaster and I am manipulating PR!!" Guess whats google's rection will be??
Dude the command originated at Google...what are you talking about? http://blog.searchenginewatch.com/blog/050118-204728
well, I am not gonna argue with you, because its not such an exact answer it depends on your view..you see sometimes you need to do in opposite way, even if it looks ridiculous. I am talking here based on the information from the person who really knows what he is doing and who is expert...
There is no need to argue...it's a clear cut answer. Think of the logic...If Wikipedia is using "nofollow" on every single page and Google frowns upon it, why are they so successful? Who is this expert that is giving you this advice? One thing is certain, they shouldn't quit their day job. It would be great if someone else can chime in here. I am by no means an SEO expert, but this is flat out ridiculous.
Back on topic: inbound rel-no follow links do add SEO value: the keywords in the link-tag used ARE counted by google, though it won't help towards link popularity. This was researched and shared by some SEO blog last year. I also noticed that google shows rel no follow links in their sitemap tool, strangely enough.
I think you are completely missing the point. I'm not the one using the nofollow tag, Wikipedia is, so how is this going to hurt me? An incoming link to my site was put on Wikipedia, I didn't put an outgoing link with a nofollow tag on my site.
Well, my traffic is still up noticibly from before. I'm getting an extra 25-50 guests and 100-200 yahoo spiders a day from this link. I've never had more than one MSN spider hit my site, and so far today I've had 9. I also have never had an AskJeeves spider before, and I've had 2 in the last 2 days. Not sure if this is related, but my Google search engine saturation went up about 15% today when it had been on a slight downward trend until today. Not sure if there is any correlation, since this wikipedia link just went up 2 days ago.
There is no benefit of a "nofollow" link to your site. The wiki uses the nofollow link on everything now making it worthless for seo