Hey, To those who are still searching for blogs that have dofollow to spam, You don't have to. I've posted my site's link in a 6 PR page (Nofollow) and it booosted my pagerank and serps. Dunno, Maybe links with dofollow have more effect?? But i'm sure nofollows are effective. Anyway, My link was deleted few days later and my rank and serp dropped again. Man, It felt really awesome.
From my own experience, "nofollow" links definitely have an effect but dofollow links are better. A little experiment that that might convince everybody is to look at the anchor texts that reference websites have in wikipedia and try searching those keywords, You'll find them on the first page at least if not in the first position for those keywords.
That's what I was yelling since childhood The day Google introduced this thing, I published an article on its stupidity. it was feature in Search Engine watch too, I guess. and UnNatural1 ...great example of wikipedia dude. love you...( no i am not gay )
From my own experience, "nofollow" links definitely have an effect but dofollow links are better. yes but lots of nofollow links is a good choose too
This is really interesting if true. I don't doubt the poster, but there could be a number of factors at play. have to say though, despite using a lot of nofollow links, some of my sites have been positively affected.
I've just done a quick test using wikipedia as an example. If you take http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Castle_Cover for example, you will see that there is a link further down to Regal Insurance Castle Cover. If you do a search on google for Regal Insurance and check the results that page doesn't come up high. In fact there is even a link from www.sureterm.com/reliant-regal-insurance.php which has low PR but ranks quite high. If some wiki PR was being passed to Castle Cover you'd expect http://www.castlecover.co.uk/regal/index.asp to rank higher than it does. Mind you since the wiki page has low PR this isn't concrete proof of anything.
I've also got a link from a 6 PR page (Nofollow) and my site is also dropped in serps but PR didnt change in my case. Im sure it'll back in serps within a month or two.
How could you possibly tell? Surely you could only tell when the Toolbar PR updates. Don't tell me you built a PR6 nofollow link, then the Toolbar PR was updated and you think this is why?...
Guys, Stop being such n00bs, Every 3:4 month the rank shown on the toolbar updates BUT your actual rank is updated almost everyday ... which affects your position in the SERP. (BASICS) You're not getting into the first page unless you have a good rank and reverence to the keywords. So, When I get a really good position in the first page -for so many keywords-, then sure i have good pagerank; however the toolbar data isn't updated yet. Anyway, As i told you, Once my link was removed everything dropped back.
Only to a very little extent. My PR4 homepage outranks a PR7 homepage in exactly the same niche, so I don't think it's quite as black and white as you make out. Yes, actual PR is always shifting, but I don't see how you can definitely say that nofollow links pass PR. Maybe nofollow links help improve rankings, but they don't pass PR. The amount of false indicators that nofollow prevents would mean it would make absolutely no sense for nofollow to pass PR.
sorry guys but this is nonsense. nofollow links will neither pass PR nor anchor text and dont help rankings. (on Google) the entire (real) SEO community know this, its in no doubt, and it's also Google's stated position. one guys story about a link and a SERP jump as proof is about as credible as most Alien abduction stories.
I agree that no follow does nothing and is a waste unless its a high traffic site. It wont help your page rank (thats a given) and wont help your serps either. I could go into the alien story where i was abducted... but ill refrain laterz malcolm
Galileo was killed coz he said the earth is round ... So, Whatever you say : ) And... check this out... Wikipedia