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How come Articlesbase.com links are NOFOLLOW?

Discussion in 'Search Engine Optimization' started by trosquin, Jan 19, 2009.

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    trosquin, Jan 19, 2009 IP
  2. Resident79

    Resident79 Peon

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    Guess they do not want to share their linkpower.
     
    Resident79, Jan 19, 2009 IP
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    vansterdam Notable Member

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    I don't think it's because they don't want to share their linkpower. I think it's more about protecting their website. When hundreds of articles are being submitted daily, there is a good chance that they will link to some questionable websites. Those bad neighborhood could destroy their rankings and destroy a lot of what they have built up. They either have to be extremely careful with their links or just make them all nofollow. I don't blame them.

    There are hundreds of other dofollow article directories. So it's pointless to complain about just one of those websites. Just remove that website from your list and keep submitting to the others.

    Even though the links are nofollow, it does not mean the links won't help. These links will still help rankings on search engines other than Google.

    Really if you took the time to write a unique article just for that website you should've taken the time to see if the links are nofollow.
     
    vansterdam, Jan 19, 2009 IP
  4. trosquin

    trosquin Active Member

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    Well wayback when i first started doing article submission; the no/dofollow movement wasn't in action yet so i didn't even look for that. I recently noticed when I submitted a bunch of new ones. So yup those bastards are off my list!
     
    trosquin, Jan 19, 2009 IP
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    maybe they want to protecting their website, there's a lot of spammer out there. Just move on, there's still a lot of website out there that more worth to your time.
     
    thunderspot, Jan 19, 2009 IP
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    I thought the nonfollow was only for links in the text not in your signature.....
     
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    I've just checked one of mine and the links all appear to be do-follow. Yours appear to be ok as well, unless I'm missing something?
     
    scissors, Jan 29, 2009 IP
  8. Matt Faro

    Matt Faro Greenhorn

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    The articlesbase links are "nofollow" on the original article, but if your article gets syndicated (and articlesbase is one of the best sites for getting your articles reproduced elsewhere) then the "About the author" links are "dofollow". Of course this relies on whoever reproduces the article leaving the links as "dofollow".

    After you have 10 articles published on articlesbase, you can ask them to review your account to consider removing the "nofollow" tags.
     
    Matt Faro, Aug 29, 2010 IP
  9. EngineerofSuccess

    EngineerofSuccess Well-Known Member

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    That is mighty cheap of any article directory to do to their authors. Here they are writing articles away and submitting them, and some directories can't share link juice love? They need to be talked about, if that is true!
     
    EngineerofSuccess, Aug 29, 2010 IP