I have just read about this on seomoz as well. So now is there any benefit of nofollow, seo wise, anymore?
Well, as I just said in another post. Imagine you have ten links. 5 of them are no follow. Google will look at the ten links, give the 5 regular ones their PR treat, and say "To Hell" with the rest - they don't get anything. Hang on, while I pull up some posts on the issue. I'm trying to get the house cleaned, dishes done, laundry taken care of, and my mom's old room straightened up before her funeral on Saturday.
But does that mean if one article has a lot of no-follow linked comments by users... then if he has a legitimate link do-follow, that will get less because of so many people commenting and posting their website??
I found the above train of post both interesting, confusing and challenging. I have one question that you may be able to help me with [begin long winded question[.. I do search occasionally for dofollow blogs/forums and add to them in a constructive way (not just great post well done / I agree / or I have joined the forum and report till nauseous. Am I better of visiting the forums / blogs I like (and the are many) and posting constructive well thought out replies on the original content and saying in my internal mantra 'the juice will come the juice will come" e.g. Ignor PR, ignore dofollow/nofollow just become known... Kieran
Personally I have always been of the belief that you shouldn't exclude nofollow blogs/forums if commenting is part of your overall SEO strategy and that if you have something constructive to say and offer great info people will seek you out anyway. Added to and this, and so many people just don't realise or confuse this fact that, the link on your comment is still indexed and as we all well know it's not just the number of dofollow links but the total number of inbound link also adds weight to your own overall PR so why not use the nofollow blogs as well. I think it was Dan who said that it depends who you write your blog for as well. If your writing for the search engines (bad idea) then it's not going to make a big difference because the blog content probably sucks anyway. If you writing for your readers though everything else doesn't need to be said because it becomes logical what to do and why. I'm not sure that the mantra is going to help but hey I could be wrong. Maybe there's a new book in there 'Think and Grow Traffic'
Well he explicitly said that nofollow juice leak 'half' the PR juice as compared to normal links and that's why I put 1.5 there ;-) That's absolutely correct Tarkan. You might start finding blogs that completely remove links from comments soon ;-) Others will take more sane approach and go dofollow and do strict moderation of comments.