NoFollow Links Useless For Backlinking!!

As I have noticed with my own efforts, go ahead and post on relevant sites even if they are nofollow. Right now while I am building my link strategy these relevant sites bring in enough traffic to track and study.

NO Follow..sounds like they follow to another page?
Is no use for backlinks but can still be very useful for
traffic.

Don't pay attention to what Matt Cutts or anyone else tells you - just do what you know makes sense.

If you're just blasting any pages for links - you probably should revise your strategy to be more effective.

Just pay attention to what you do and measure the results you get - then do more of what works. If the no follow links you get are from relevant sites that send you traffic - do more. If they're not - stop.

Things only get complicated when you stop using your own brain and want others to tell you what to do, then you end up doing things and not really knowing why or if the results are poor what to do about it.

Just focus on making your site an authority in your niche and focus your linking efforts on a sensible strategy that gets links which actually result in you getting more traffic.

Too many people get confused about traffic - it's simple when you focus on your audience and not on the technology or the search engines.

Andy

I get traffic from sites with nofollow. Fact is, if you go and spam comments, don't be surpised if you get no traffic.

I don't comment much on others' blogs (basically because I don't have much to say), but when I do I make sure the comments are useful.

It is really useless to build links on these sites with "NoFollow". But if those sites have much traffic, you can promote your business online to gain more traffic.

Don't waste time on these sites if those sites are faceless.

Please follow Matt Cutts advice to the letter. You know he must be right, since you never find pages ranking high on Google with very limited back links.....or wait one darn moment...

If Matt's advice is correct, then explain to all of us why pages with less "apparent" backlinks are ranking higher on Google, with similar other optimization factors to competing pages. Many times it is these "useless" no follow links which make the big difference.

Do Follow links from high PR sites are definitely the most advantageous, but that does not make the other links useless.

Yeah, but don't you want extra traffic?

When I start my link campaign, I always look for dofollow links, nofollow might not pass link juice, but I suspect it passes "trust" rank...

Still need more test on this, if anyone had any experience on this, please share...

Thats 100 percent correct no matter what ANYONE in this thread says. If it isn't then all they have to do is point you to some REAL proof that says other wise.

Might as well know - this has been debated on this forum every other month and in my time here I have yet to see anyone place any evidence on the table to say why Google can't be trusted on this and why thousands of webmasters that use the nofollow tag to cut down on link spam have beend duped.

Some have claimed they will present evidence and then disappear. others ignore the evidence beyond Matt Cutt. Historically nofollow tags have been tested by webmasters in an old practice called Pagerank sculpting.

So yeah if the nofollow links bring traffic then go for it but as is the case with a lot of backlinking that doesn't bring in traffic stick with only links that are followed.

The argument that you should ignore what Google says about its own engine is not something that should be listened to. I am NOT saying that Google is always forth coming with everything - they do have secrets to keep (helping spammers by following nofollow links isn't one of them) - but its their search engine and I never see people claiming they should be ignored for

needing backlinks (they say it and you do),
needing to place relevant keywords in Title and H1 tags (they say it and you do)
needing content that has relevant related words - LSI (they say it and you do)


Skip the conspiracy theories. Google is spot on on this one and nofollow being bad for SEO is an accepted fact in mainline SEO. Google it and you'll see for yourself.

There is absolutely NO sense in wasting time placing nofollow links.

Both nofollow and dofollow are important.
Everything should look natural.
In any case, strive for high PR one-way do-follow links from the text body.

Google don't count nofollow links, and that's is true. Else everyone would starts to use nofollow links, and the purpose of introducing nofollow links in the first place - to counter spam, will not meet its' purpose!

I think there are enough ways to get dofollow backlinks so you should stick with them. No doubt they are better in terms of seo but if you can get nofollow backlinks that actually drive traffic, then go for it.

from what I understand, nofollow is just a google, thing, yahoo and bing don't take nofollow into consideration

"You can drive traffic in a lot of different ways".

If your focus is no computers and not people then you are wasting your time... computers don't buy things.

Chasing SEO by trying to plant links everywhere is a waste of time.

Smart people recognize that money comes from people. But some people will never get it. Link Dumping is NOT marketing.

"You can drive traffic in a lot of different ways".

If your focus is no computers and not people then you are wasting your time... computers don't buy things.

Chasing SEO by trying to plant links everywhere is a waste of time.

Smart people recognize that money comes from people. But some people will never get it. Link Dumping is NOT marketing.

Why do you think they were called Nofollow for? !!!!!!!

Is it just me or is there a new thread popping up on this subject every other day?

I personally treat no-follow links like unattractive women with nice personalities. I don't totally avoid them, but I don't waist my time chasing them either..

Actually do follow blogs do benefit from "spam" comment, if not too spammy!

Those comments will become part of the content for the blog, and they contribute more traffic in long terms. However, this also means the blogger takes more time to filter out junks. But this is still a good way to attract good comments - enable dofollow on blog comments.

In my opinion nofollow raises red flags initially as big G will attempt to check if the link is a spam. Don't forget one of the reasons to implement nofollow was to discourage linking by spammers... I get far better juice from dofollow blogs even though they are spammed to death...

I'd recommend going for nofollow when it is related and can bring in targeted traffic, otherwise i'd not worry about nofollow links.

There are many dofollow link building opportunities out there to be had.

Like one of the posters said above, don't listen to what this guy or any other person has to say and just do whatever makes sense and whatever is going to help build your site. If you do get a no follow link - it will get you traffic no matter what, and it can't hurt you it can only help. So don't worry about whether it helps you for back linking purposes or not, get it anyways for the traffic alone.