NoFollow Backlinks from PR9 Site - Any Value?

James Caan Active Member

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No, nofollow links will give your site nothing. Twitter also doesn't add to your backlinks from what I hear.

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A NoFollow link still gets some traffic. Unless one knows the algo of Google, one can't say that G ignores NoFollow completely in PR calculations.

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I don't believe no follow links are that bad at all. If you have a no follow link from a high authority website, do you think Google still want to ignore it? So I'm looking at do follow links are the best, but don't count no follow links out!

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It's not that they don't have value. It's only that they don't pass pagerank.

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goliath said: ↑

Two comments on "link juice"/pagerank and the value of a link:

First, SEO is what it is. The value of a link is not calculated solely in pagerank or "link-juice". There is value in the fact that people could actually click on them, and visit your site. There is also value in that your profile could get indexed, providing another place where a real live user could find your link.

People are so caught up in the whole "backlink building for pagerank" it seems most have forgotten the basics. The current idea is:

link juice -> pagerank(or 'authority' on non-google SEs) -> SERP boost -> traffic

It's a good system, works long term. However when you can shorten the cycle to it's original form:

link -> traffic

you're doing good, that's quicker value.

Second, as regards the pagerank specifically, you'll find a lot of opinions on how well homepage pagerank transfers to inner pages. In either case your twitter profile page probably has a specific pagerank of zero, and it's doubtful that google is going to give a profile page (these pages are easily recognizable as 90+ percent duplicate content in the code, if nothing else) a lot of authority, or weight.

As for the nofollow, NoFollow is, in my OPINION, a smoke screen. I personally believe that in the right context, a nofollow link can prove to be more valuable on a SERP than a "dofollow" link on the same page.

As to why I believe that, I'll keep it to myself and just say there is always value in doing things properly.
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My Twitter profile is PR 6 but has a nofollow link to my site. How would you rate that?

cmorley, Jul 13, 2010 IP

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clickbed said: ↑

Google keeps surprising me. I have a new blog (November), and no traffic at all because it's more personal than commercial.
I put a few links, many no follow, in blog comments but I think not more than 20 links AT ALL (60% nofollow). Now, 2 weeks ago it's PR 1. How?? I don't know...maybe google does give importance to nofollow links. I really can't figure it out.
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Yeah, I am also confused by Google. Most people/SEO-ers are thinking NO Follow links are meaningless for Google SEO, however, I noticed meanwhile Google counted those No Follow links as backlinks and gave them some weight.

So I just am wondering, doesn Goolge give weight to all no follow links or it just give weight to those no follow links from high pagerank discriminatively?

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nofollow backlink from high pr page is good , like if the pagerank of any page is around 4 to 8 and if managed to get backlink even if it nofollow then it will also increase serp. Below pr 4 nofollow backlinks are useless.

chunnumunnu, Jul 17, 2010 IP