Okay folks, many people go back and forth about the nofollow attribute of links, some say they don't help in the ranking, some say they help just a little and others say they help almost as much as dofollow. Here's proof that they actually can be quite beneficial. As an experiment I created a post on one of my sites called 'submitting to bing' and referenced it from my 'recent blog link' here on DP, as we can see when viewing the source, DP uses 'nofollow' for these links. A quick search of google for: Submitting to Bing will show you that my site ranks right after bing.com. Now if this isn't blatant proof that nofollow links actually help the position I don't know what is. I realize there's only 250,000 other pages that compete with mine on this search phrase, so my next test will be to use a more competitive search phrase. Stay tuned...
Your search - link:http://www.tenshiweb.com/submitting-to-bing.html - did not match any documents. I look forward to updates...
nofollow links from wikipedia did miracles to some of my sites. So, nofollow definitely can be very useful.
Yeah, me too. I really hope this works out. I'm very interested in this since I've been doing a lot of blog commenting on nofollow-blogs. I think he did, but he always changes his mind about things so I don't know if we're supposed to trust him or not. They did? Well, I better grab some nofollow links from Wikipedia right now. I have a few, but somebody always deletes them. Pretty annoying...
thats because wikipedia gets lots of traffic and visitors assume that your site might be worth something. Nofollow links are a crime, if people don't want spam appearing on their site, they should moderate. If the site is huge and hard to moderate, then they should be employing more people. SERPs should majorly be decided by everyday people, not by ginormous company and news websites with no accountability.
it is not serious question because Matt Cutts says it is not serious, then why people use nofollow tags to prevent spamming.
You'd have to do quite extensive testing to get to the bottom of this - getting one nofollow backlink for one URL doesn't go far enough to show how effective (or ineffective) nofollow links really are. I think that as far as passing Pagerank goes, nofollow links are virtually useless. With regards to increasing your position in the SERPs for certain keywords, I think they pass a fraction of the anchor text you would have received if the nofollow attribute had not been used. Perhaps something like 10-20% So IMHO you are still a lot better off with getting links which don't have the nofollow attribute. PS: don't go by what Matt Cutts says on this, it's not as if he's going to hand you the formula on a plate.