Nofollow Backlinks—Can We Clear Up a Few Things?

[LSFloyd]

There is a lot of talk on here about nofollow backlinks. I gather that pr juice does not transfer from these links, but I am wondering if you guys believe anchor text credit is given for them?

[Adam Roy]

Edited.

It doesn't pass page rank, and isn't 'supposed to increase rankings'...

There's a lot of debate about the subject.

Here's my opinion:

I WILL GO OUT OF MY WAY to get dofollow backlinks. However, I WILL NOT go out of my way to AVOID nofollow links. (I personally think nofollow links have a positive impact on rankings, but the facts from the big boys state otherwise)

What I mean by that is I like going for dofollow links, but if I'm presented with an opportunity to leave a backlink that's nofollow, I'll still build the link.

Here are the facts from Google itself, http://www.google.com/support/webmas...n&answer=96569

Here are the facts from Wikipedia, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nofollow

According to Google and Wikipedia, dofollow links are MUCH more valuable for us guys

[Ashfaq]

As far as i have seen google follows "No follow links" . I have got backlinks from sites which has nofollow attribute to them.

[FrankBowman]

LSFloyd,

I think you know my opinion. But I will say this.

You need a mixture of both. But you can get that simply by posting links on various sites, some will be dofollow and some will be nofollow.

Google looks for patterns, and then if they find any, they usually slap you.

So while I would not pay more, for example for a dofollow list of sites, I would not avoid dofollow links either.

Happy New year

It has to look natural to big G

[Dan B Rusu]

Originally Posted by Adam Roy

It doesn't pass page rank. nofollow = no page rank

NOFOLLOW is still good for SEO and increasing rankings.

I'm sure there's a lot of debate about the subject.

Here's my opinion:

I WILL GO OUT OF MY WAY to get dofollow backlinks. However, I WILL NOT go out of my way to AVOID nofollow links.

What I mean by that is I like going for dofollow links, but if I'm presented with an opportunity to leave a backlink that's nofollow, I'll still build the link.

That's exactly the same approach I take. You should be getting both as it looks more natural. But do go out of your way to get High Authority, do follow backlinks

[Linda Hepworth]

Originally Posted by Adam Roy

It doesn't pass page rank. nofollow = no page rank

NOFOLLOW is still good for SEO and increasing rankings.

I'm sure there's a lot of debate about the subject.

Here's my opinion:

I WILL GO OUT OF MY WAY to get dofollow backlinks. However, I WILL NOT go out of my way to AVOID nofollow links.

What I mean by that is I like going for dofollow links, but if I'm presented with an opportunity to leave a backlink that's nofollow, I'll still build the link.

Thanks for the clarification. I did not know that the no follow was good for SEO but not for page rank. It doesn't seem that page rank will matter after 2011 anyway. From what I've read on this site Google is phasing it out.

[paulgl]

When you stop and think, what is "natural" about a nofollow link?
Why does google care about natural? That's such a bogus word when it
comes to links.

Nofollow was created to not pass PR from links that may be abused with spam.
Taking that into account, wouldn't logic say that if google "saw" a nofollow link,
they would consider it possible spam? After all, that's what nofollow is for. Spam.

So when you decide it helps rankings, by itself, in what way?

If a link is nofollow, PR and anchor text are both ignored.

I'd say if the big bad google was actually watching, they'd say that
50 nofollow links were 50 possible spam links.

Makes no sense to create 50 nofollow links to balance 50 non nofollow links.
There is no such thing as dofollow. Many links are ignored, nofollow or not.

But please, go out and get as many nofollow links as you can. Leave the others
to the rest of us.

It'll be a Festivus for the rest of us!

Start the New Year off right, people, and do this stuff right the first time.

Paul

[faceblogger]

No anchor text credit is given for them. no-follow links have no SEO benefits!

[FrankBowman]

Originally Posted by faceblogger

No anchor text credit is given for them. no-follow links have no SEO benefits!

I disagree. No PR is passed but they are still read.

How do I know this? Because I tested it. I used only nofollow blog comments to rank a microniche site at #1 for several keywords.

So for me at least, based on my experience the anchor text is read and the links are crawled. PR however, which I could give a flying hang about, is not passed.

Happy new Year..........going now to drink mucho liquor!!!!!

[prismkuet]

Guys,
I just simply want to say that Nofollow only affects outgoing links from your site. It tells the Search Engines not to follow any outgoing links.

[Condorr]

If you're using automated software like Scrapebox, I would not worry about nofollow links and just post to anything that allows a link.

If you're doing manual posting, it would be worth it to find dofollow blogs to get as much link value as possible for your time.

[uProSoft]

Though the myth that nofollow links are not being indexed by search engines is still being perpetuated amongst webmasters and SEO gurus alike, the truth is that nofollow links actually are being indexed and are affecting search engine ranking. In late 2008, Google began to index links that contained the rel=nofollow attribute