Exactly how is nofollow "punishing" anybody? If not giving something of (real or imagined) value is "punishment" then I must be a tyrant for not having given out hundred dollar bills to everybody I've seen today.
I think the bloggers who don't use "nofollow" on comments tend to get more comments which are mostly adding to the discussion, although you will get some turds. I remember reading a while back that Google does follow a "nofollow" link but does not give any link juice. Maybe they changed this in the algo. ;-)
hi talking about "nofollow" can you please advise me for that one: my page is about hotel booking and the most pages are mostly in the form of a list with 20 hotels (pictures, info and so on). So every page is pretty long, that's why I use the same navigation menu on the top and on the bottom of my pages (for better navigation). Here comes the question: is it better to put a rel="nofollow" atribute to the links on the bottom, because they are the same as these on the top, OR maybe when I have two links for every page that is more valued ? thx in advance!
Matt Cutts, et. al. have stated if you are selling links to use the rel="nofollow" so the link doesn't pass PR otherwise your site might get penalized.
Off the topic a bit, did anybody know Matt Cutts is a "spook" ? A former NSA employee ?? spook1 Look at #5 here and Matt denies being a "spook"... here no wonder he supports "nofollow"
Then it's very useful way to get more backlinks for any website. just find good blog or article and post a comment with website links.
I did an experiment a couple months ago - I put NoFollow on all outgoing links to client sites on my home page because I was concerned that linking to clients could be construed as selling links, and the PR for my home page went up by 1. This is in spite of the fact that Matt Cutts said it's ok to link to client sites without nofollow on the links. I still have normal links to clients in my portfolio so this didn't hurt their sites any being as Google only counts the value of one link per site anyway. The first of this month I went ahead and put no follow on all other pages on my site that had other client links on my site (except for the portfolio) -- mostly on my graphics pages linking to client graphics -- and last week most of those pages jumped in rank by about 15 positions. Now either this is all just a big conincidence or linking to clients sites "can" cause a drop in rank in spite of what Matt Cutts says.
@vikash.seoexpert - First post here and you're bumping an 8 month old thread ? Jeez, this discussion was over along time ago. Get over it already.
so many external no follows now, as a newbie thats just stumbled across this article, i have many wasted hours lol
nofollow, dofollow, I mean what does this all mean to someone trying to get higher ranking from the Google SERPs? I am assuming that you want dofollow links back to your site. Am I on the right track with this? If so How can you tell for sure before requesting a backlink that is will be a dofollow is it posted somewhere?
that's my understanding as well. google and yahoo seem to index no-follow i see that in the webmaster files etc; for google no-follow certainly doesn't pass any page rank, we know that for sure; i don't know what happens in yahoo or msn as i haven't read up on them as much as search engines.
Yeah I saw many blogs have that rel=external nofollow. I guess that is because the inner links are follw, a way to control blog comments spamming.
From what Ive seen, no-follow may not influence pagerank, but it does bump up SERP. My friend has a PR0 site that gained 1000+ backlinks from blogs. He's dominating many of his desired keywords
Just wanted to note that Matt Cutts' blog uses rel="external nofollow" not necessarily because he thinks that is a good idea. He has said that this is simply because the blog software he is using automatically does that. Whether he is being entirely straightforward or not is open to debate but at least he claimed that it was not really by choice. Though I am sure he could get around that if he really wanted too, so he must not mind it too much. For more detailed info on how exactly nofollow works see this thread http://forums.digitalpoint.com/showthread.php?t=1687072&page=1
A nofollow tag doesn't means Googlebot will neglect the link, but to prevent the weight or Pagerank transfer from this page to another. E.g. in my webmster tools I can see some trash links in the list. I think maybe it was set by some one else. But do you think they will bring negative influence to me? Google can distinguish all kinds of links I think. And even on wikipedia, the links are attached with nofollow tags but really good for the linked site.