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Can No-Follow Links Hurt Website?

by GACS
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If your website has hundreds of do-follow links with varied anchor text, but tens of thousands of no-follow links with the same anchor text, will the no-follow links hurt/penalize your website?
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  • Profile picture of the author connorbringas
    Originally Posted by GACS View Post

    If your website has hundreds of do-follow links with varied anchor text, but tens of thousands of no-follow links with the same anchor text, will the no-follow links hurt/penalize your website?
    No, absolutely not. Ask yourself this question, do no follow links show up on google webmaster tools? No follow links are powerful, just not nearly as powerful as do follow links. Google still crawls no follows and gives them a value.
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  • Profile picture of the author kimseo
    Originally Posted by GACS View Post

    If your website has hundreds of do-follow links with varied anchor text, but tens of thousands of no-follow links with the same anchor text, will the no-follow links hurt/penalize your website?
    No as long as they are not spammy and low quality links.
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  • Profile picture of the author WebEminence
    I guess I would wonder where the thousands of no-follow links came from first of all. I agree that they are NOT a bad thing. SEs do see No-follows and I think they typically look natural to SEs. I'd rather have a mix of Do-follow and No-follow than just thousands of Do-follow. That may look suspect.

    But kimseo is also right that there's more to it than just follow. There's page quality, # of links, relevancy, etc.
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  • Profile picture of the author kimseo
    Also, Keep it mind, Google loves to see the combination of dofollow & nofollow links (E.g. natural links )
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  • Profile picture of the author Vivers
    Not at all as long as their manual links
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  • Profile picture of the author himanuzo
    Google will not penalize your site because of the nofollow links. But the tens of thousands of no-follow links with the same anchor text is wasting your time and money. Because this is unnecessary.

    You can combinate dofollow and nofollow hundreds or even thousands of backlinks with various anchor texts so this will be looked as natural at Google.
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    • Profile picture of the author SEO Haven
      Originally Posted by himanuzo View Post

      Google will not penalize your site because of the nofollow links. But the tens of thousands of no-follow links with the same anchor text is wasting your time and money.
      I agree, thousands of these links with the same anchor texts will do more harm than good, and undoubtedly flag your site even though they're nofollow.
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    • Profile picture of the author realseowarrior
      Originally Posted by himanuzo View Post


      You can combinate dofollow and nofollow hundreds or even thousands of backlinks with various anchor texts so this will be looked as natural at Google.
      What is dofollow?:confused::confused:
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  • Profile picture of the author mokmos
    I think the answer is no as long as these links are not spam links .I just read an article saying that nofollow with dofollow links give your site natural look.
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  • Profile picture of the author aizaku
    vary your anchor text be it do or no follow.
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  • Profile picture of the author abhigoogle
    Originally Posted by GACS View Post

    If your website has hundreds of do-follow links with varied anchor text, but tens of thousands of no-follow links with the same anchor text, will the no-follow links hurt/penalize your website?
    They will never hurt your site. In-fact, for your back-link profile to look natural, you need to have a good mix of dofollow as well as nofollow links.
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  • Profile picture of the author GACS
    Thanks for the responses. I think the general consensus is that no-follow links can and will hurt your website if they are automated, from spam/black-hat sites and contain the same/non-varied anchor text.
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  • Profile picture of the author seobuzz
    Only spammy, automated backlinks can hurt your website.

    If the Nofollow backlinks are relevant to your website, then it will also be helpful to your website as well; just like Dofollow backlinks.
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