nofollow links will bot be indexed in google but will be in yahoo. So, it is up to you where is your target is.
Of course, they are helpful. They give you referral traffic and these traffic may become your RSS subscribers.
Two points: Traffics and benefit for Yahoo ranking. I have to say high quality nofollow links work for me.
no follow links are absolutely working very well for me. 60% of the traffic i drive for me are from no follow links. they help a lot in driving traffic also it benefits in yahoo rankings.
For me,they have worked well so far. I have numerous links from nofollow blogs and even nofollow forums. This is also true that,it means nothing for Google but Yahoo,Msn,Alltheweb and Altavista indexes nofollows.
No Follow links are not good for google but it's good for yahoo and msn. Also no follow link give good traffic.
Nofollow can help prevent from linking to untrusted site or site being penalized by google search engine.
I was under the impression that nofollow was just that...to instruct search engines not to follow the link, is this not the case?
Imagine this: What will happen if I get tons of backlink and none of them are dofollow? In that case will I get a pagerank?
I've never knew that nofollow links are being indexed by yahoo, wow. I have many links form the nofollow sites and I haven't notice anything good from them except the traffic - but sometimes it might be more valuable than indexing by google.
If you were programming Google would you ignore no-follow links just because the webmaster told you to? No of course not. They are noted that they exist and factored in some obscure way.
no fallow links will helpful for traffic point of view as well as yahoo/msn/live/ask optimizations. you can drive traffic for your site from no fallow links. and who knows in those traffic you can got the conversion leads for your site.
If you want more traffic so nofollow links is helpful to you. Than only targeted Yahoo so it's useful.
you can get traffic with no follow links. and if we need traffic, we don't need to think about dofollow or no nofollow. i am also linking with some nofollow sites. so nofollow link is also useful.