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do follow no follow

by bbrian017
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I'm wondering what's worse for my website!

I own a social networking website for bloggers sitting around 6000 members!

All the bloggers they love do follow so right now this is what my links are!

Is this affecting my website in a bad way for SEO with Goggle and if so how serious is it!

I noticed my organic traffic dropped a lot over the last year!

At one point I was getting 400 - 600 organic hits a day and now I'm seeing maybe 100 on average!

Any suggestions?
#follow
  • Profile picture of the author bbrian017
    I guess I can ask this in another forum! Thanks anyways!
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  • Profile picture of the author faithuniq
    Do follow attracts the users.
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  • Profile picture of the author rabbit042
    I'd definitely stay dofollow.

    Is it possible that a year ago you did a lot of promotion and then stopped & it has taken this long to trickle down to this point?

    Or perhaps it is the fact that there is more competition in your market.

    Perhaps some fresh promotion and advertising is in order?
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    • Profile picture of the author TheHutz
      Based on your question - does DoFollow affect your site "badly" in terms of SEO the answer is Yes!

      The reason? All the Pagerank value you have built up is being passed to your members via the links.

      It's kinda a catch22 situation. DoFollow will attract more users (and also spammers), but in turn will hurt your rankings.

      It's a trade off really - so you need to think what is more important to you - for you to rank, or for you to attract more members
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  • Profile picture of the author bbrian017
    Judging form what they said over at Digital Point forums, do follow or no follow

    I think I will remain Do Follow and work on allowing quality blog articles only!

    Over the last few days I have deleted over 4000 poor quality blog articles and links. I think this is the reasoning for my PR drop and decrease in traffic!

    It's funny I went from 9000 links to 5000 in 48 hours I need to re create my site map asap!
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    • Profile picture of the author bobwilson37
      Do follow attracts users to work on your site, but purely to promote their website or business.
      A no follow make search engines consider the site as a legitimate one.

      See that you allow only a single dofollow website field. And remaining nofollow.

      Anyway for a social networking site, only the traffic into the site drives traffic to links in that site. And a nofollow link noway can change that traffic.
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  • Profile picture of the author Smokey_Joe
    Generally speaking, it is quite difficult to explain a drop in traffic through links being no-follow. Theoretically, that could be the case if there is a drop in google rankings, but then again, it has lots of other factors involved.

    Again, there is a google rule that the number of backlinks per page should not exceed a hundred - this one could be a line to investigate I believe.
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    • Profile picture of the author ganeshseg
      generally do-follow links are consider as a back links, but Google can't consider no-follow links as a back links
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  • Profile picture of the author zoobie
    what keywords are you targeting? and does google cache your site recently?
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  • Profile picture of the author bbrian017
    Google Caches my website daily!

    Never misses a day!
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