You go for do follow or no follow? What matters.

10 years ago

The key is to make a backlink profile appear natural. That means having diversity. Now I have heard people claim that a natural profile won't contain nofollow links but that couldn't be farther from the truth.

All sites with a natural profile will have nofollow links as well.

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Kevin Maguire

10 years ago

Originally Posted by netanel23

The key is to make a backlink profile appear natural. That means having diversity. Now I have heard people claim that a natural profile won't contain nofollow links but that couldn't be farther from the truth.

All sites with a natural profile will have nofollow links as well.

Yeah about 5% of the web is no-follow, so <5% no-follow would be natural.

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DeskCoder

10 years ago

When in doubt, consult Google:
https://support.google.com/webmaster...er/96569?hl=en

NoFollow has nothing to do with natural or not ... it has to do with how the webmaster (always hated that term) feels about the links. I personally nofollow the links on my main menu - home, about, contact ... falls under the crawl prioritization.

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MikeFriedman

10 years ago

Originally Posted by DeskCoder

I personally nofollow the links on my main menu - home, about, contact ... falls under the crawl prioritization.

I would never, ever, ever, not a freaking chance, nofollow internal links.

That is a bad idea. I might noindex something like a contact page, but nofollow is killing your site. You are telling Google to pass zero authority, PR, and anchor relevance through that link.

And you are doing it to your home page?

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DeskCoder

10 years ago

Originally Posted by MikeFriedman

I would never, ever, ever, not a freaking chance, nofollow internal links.

That is a bad idea. I might noindex something like a contact page, but nofollow is killing your site. You are telling Google to pass zero authority, PR, and anchor relevance through that link.

And you are doing it to your home page?

I am doing that for the homepage link with "HOME" anchor text. I am NOT doing that for the homepage link with my keyword anchor text.

And I think you just proved my point ... if I have a site-wide link to my About page in the menu, why do I want to pass "juice" on all my money pages to my About page?

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MikeFriedman

10 years ago

Originally Posted by DeskCoder

I am doing that for the homepage link with "HOME" anchor text. I am NOT doing that for the homepage link with my keyword anchor text.

And I think you just proved my point ... if I have a site-wide link to my About page in the menu, why do I want to pass "juice" on all my money pages to my About page?

Because, if you have a link, "juice" leaves through that link no matter what. With a normal link it is passed onto the page being linked to. With a nofollow link, it is just lost in a black hole. So your About page is just siphoning juice off of every page it is linked from, and then throwing it away.

Nofollow does not provide your other links on the page with more juice.

It did when it first came out, but Google abolished that because people were doing what was called PageRank sculpting, which is exactly what you are trying to do. Now though, you are just screwing your own site.

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skinnedcartree

10 years ago

I nofollow to any sites/products I've received payment or free products from to review.

I dofollow any sites that I've not received any compensation for.

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paulgl 10 years ago

Nofollow is as unnatural as one can get. Why on earth would anyone waste
time getting nofollow links, unless you hope you get some drip of traffic.

Of course links on twitter and other such things are nofollow. That aint
what I'm talking about.

Nofollow=spam

What do you want google to think of your site?

Seriously. Why did google invent the stupid thing? For their health?

Paul
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WebMeUp

10 years ago

Some people think that having a backlink profile without any or at least a few nofollow links looks unnatural. But have you seen any serious evidence of this?

There are lots of examples when websites rank well without a single nofollow link on their backlink profile.

When it comes to link building, the main factors Google considers are quality and diversity.

If you have 100 relevant links that come from authoritative sites, have diverse anchors, and the vast majority of them are dofollow, it absolutely fine. There's no need to artificially nofollow 5% of them to make your backlink profile look more natural.

After all, nofollow links will appear naturally later, as a result of blog/forum commenting. Practically every blogging and forum platform on the Internet flags every profile link and embedded links in comments as nofollow by default. So if people share links to your content there, you will get a great amount of natural nofollow links as a result.

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veekay31

10 years ago

To make it look natural you should do a mix of both do follow & no follow. Also anchor text variation is important. Do follow is really helpful if you are looking for link juice and boost your pagerank.

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Jeffery Moss

10 years ago

Don't just focus on whether or not a link is do follow or no follow.

Find sites where you can talk to your target audience and share your opinions on the niche (whether on a blog as guest author or on a forum as contributor). Then, if you leave a link, it will be well earned. This type of backlinking is appreciated by Google as it puts the reader first, rather than SEO. And, you will get the same if not better SEO benefit than if you had simply looked for sites to leave a link.