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Oubound "do follow" to be totally eliminated?

by shipwrecked
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Hi,

I suppose you've watched Matt Cutts' recent videos about the fact that Google is again punishing sites placing "do follow" (other wise no-"nofollow") outbound links. It seems like they're annoyed pretty much of all outbound links that pass PageRank.

If you think: basically Google would like to eradicate all links from site-to-site that are not "nofollow".

This means: we shouldn't have any link that passes PageRank.

If you've read the recent press releases, articles and have seen Matt Cutts' videos, then this is the way you can interpret it.

We are still allowed to use standard/"do follow" links on our sites for pointing to our own pages...

But: I have found a vast amount of sites, even big massive, famous sites that are NOT using "nofollow", but freely point to wherever they wish.

What do you think about these developments?
#do follow #eliminated #oubound #totally
  • Profile picture of the author online only
    I still give juice to sites I like. I couldn't care less about it. IMO it's much more unnatural when you have some links in your article nofollow and then others are dofollow. Why the hassle?
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  • Profile picture of the author Backlinko
    I think you've misinterpreted MC's video.

    Why would they penalize sites that use dofollow OBLs? 99% of non-blog comment links online are dofollow.

    I ALWAYS make my OBLs dofollow (or "followed", whatever).

    Like online only says, it doesn't look natural to nofollow all of your OBLs (or even certain ones).
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    • Profile picture of the author shipwrecked
      Originally Posted by Backlinko View Post

      I think you've misinterpreted MC's video.

      Why would they penalize sites that use dofollow OBLs? 99% of non-blog comment links online are dofollow.

      I ALWAYS make my OBLs dofollow (or "followed", whatever).

      Like online only says, it doesn't look natural to nofollow all of your OBLs (or even certain ones).
      No, I didn't misinterpret anything. I was just thinking about where this entire thing is leading to...
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  • Profile picture of the author jinx1221
    It wouldn't make sense to punish individual sites for having to label any obl's 'no-follow'.. some website owners dont even know what no-follow means. If Google has a problem with do-follow, they would simply devalue all do-follow links, in effect, no link in the entire web would have any effect on serp position.. which wouldn't make sense since links are almost the entire basis of Google's ranking system.
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  • Profile picture of the author Icematikx
    I think Google are trying to distinguish between links which are a vote of approval, and those which are merely built to raise a website's SERPs, which is what they have always tried to do. Their just trying to develop an approach to identify which links are built, and which links are earnt.
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