Do nofollow links have any effect on SEO?

8 years ago

No follow links have no effect on SERPS

Everyone's gonna say that it's good to have link diversity and to include both dofollow and nofollow

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sameera 8 years ago

Well said. To maintain link diversity, you should maintain dofollow and nofollow count. If you are promoting on url many times in a single site(it can be blog or any other site), keeping it nofollow is a best practice.
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SusanHayden

8 years ago

A no follow link is a link that does not count as a point in the page’s favor, does not boost PageRank, and doesn’t help a page’s placement in the SERPs. No follow links get no love. Theirs is a sad and lonely life.

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8 years ago

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emptee

8 years ago

Originally Posted by anandrao50

I agree with @buft
If all your links are followed links, it looks unnatural. Combined with other factors, such as if high proportion of links have money keywords in anchor, it becomes a negative factor for your site in Penguin algorithm.
nofollow links from high authority sites will help in SEO.

Just my 2c - We don't actually have any idea if Google (or anyone else) counts nofollows at all.. Everyone in the industry assumes they don't but, we can't see under the hood..

That said - everything I've seen would seem to indicate that they don't count for ranking anyway

At the very least - they seem to be statistically insignificant

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aceriker

8 years ago

Hi,

No follow links don't have direct effect, even though nofollow link is not indexed by google, no follow links will be followed by google when the same link is indexed for any other reason, also no follow link will help you to increase traffic.

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jackluter

Banned 8 years ago

Dofollow can generate backlinks but also nofollow helps to generate traffic source,i mean both have equal importance in seo.

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reddy183

8 years ago

Hi,

Do follow links only will show some effect on your search engine rankings. No follow links will never show the results of your SERPS.

Regards,
Reddy Sekhar,
SEO Analyst.

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KylieSweet

8 years ago

Originally Posted by reddy183

Hi,
Do follow links only will show some effect on your search engine rankings. No follow links will never show the results of your SERPS.
Regards,
Reddy Sekhar,
SEO Analyst.

I don't agree with the so called SEO analyst from India and i want to clarify this.
Its true that do follow link passes weight to the site but for Google it doesn't matter because both are links nothing else. Google determine the quality of the link if it is engaging with the users and been shared as well as being considered as a source from a related website.

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Banned 8 years ago

This is time to understand SEO deeply.

Any link that is sending you traffics, can affect SEO (positively or negatively), I'm not talking of link juice, to gain link juice, dofollow links work.

But we should not ignore nofollow links, if nofollow links are sending you relevant visitors, they will help a lot.

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kindsvater

8 years ago

If you broaden your view of SEO beyond whether a link passes PageRank or not you can find a lot of valley to nofollow links. For starters, link diversity.

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TeKn1qu3z

8 years ago

In these days Dofollow are too waste as Google prefers only niche related links to count for SERP. No follow links may count as links in alexa tool, but nothing gives us in SERP. Building both links would be great as it become natural method of link building.

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patco

8 years ago

They are still important. If nothing else, at least they can tell Google that you have a good diversification Dofollow to Nofollow links!

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8 years ago

Nofollow links are good for referral traffic (if not for PR kind of stuff) and at least will help in giving traffic to your site.

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RobinPHalverson

8 years ago

I think for Google they hinder SEO. But, for other they may help to rank you better.

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iAmNameLess

8 years ago

The only reason people ever say nofollow links don't affect rankings, is because they are short sighted and focus too much on PR. Sure you can't get PR from nofollow links I guess, but that doesn't mean they have no value, some of the most valuable links I've built over the years are nofollow.

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paulgl 8 years ago

There's a sucker born every minute.

If anyone on the WF is peddling anything SEO, and says nofollow links
count or help, they are just a rotten snake oil salesman.

I pity the fools.

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riya279

8 years ago

Agree with @aceriker, Nofollow links not affect SERPs but they can drive traffic to your site.

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flukmani

8 years ago

No they wont bare any effect till they are available from Good Sources like Facebook, Wikipedia, etc..

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firsttender

8 years ago

Yes do-follow and no-follow links is effective because it give you the strength and visibilities in to the search engine that why the reason it is important. but no follow links gives you only traffic not strength.

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amelia4561

8 years ago

Originally Posted by AndrewAdamSmith

Dofollow links are obviously preferable due to the fact that they allow bots to pass credit to your site. Do nofollow links have any effect whatsoever on SEO?

Not equal to Dofollow, but Nofollow links are important and can increase your domain authority if gained from relevant, high authorized site.
Consider a Nofollow link gained from Wikipedia.org site. Will you consider it as of no value?

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jobdollarr

8 years ago

Some webmasters suggest you to create and link edu dofollow link.

They have a significant impact.

When you shoot a link, you have to think the same niche with your website have.

Some example, if you build a link on logo design, then your backlink is a website about logo design.

This is to reduce the bounce rate.

I think the nofollow link is only useful for branding your domain.

I used to stick on facebook, and just scraped some traffic

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nettiapina

8 years ago

I do not believe that nofollow links help directly, but there's no need to shy away from them. They're part of a a balanced, nutritious, and wholesome link profile. Probably Google does something with them. However, there's a huge difference between "does something" and "OMG the ultimate SEO trick evar". Don't fool yourself.

Indeed, nofollow links can drive traffic. Does your average link buried somewhere drive any traffic? Not really, and that's what you need to think about. If you get one visitor per blog comment was it really worth the effort? Is there a way for you to get links that are prominently placed on quality websites, and what would it take?

Originally Posted by jobdollarr

Some webmasters suggest you to create and link edu dofollow link.

They have a significant impact.

Wow, this piece of ancient folklore is still alive and kicking. Link is a link, and unless the .edu is something like a front page of a well-known institute it's not worth talking about. The .edu links some people sell are just snake oil.

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basha15 8 years ago

Nofollow links gives you the strength in the search engine. So i think it's effective
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paulgl

8 years ago

Originally Posted by nettiapina

They're part of a a balanced, nutritious, and wholesome link profile. .

nofollow links are part of an unbalanced, junk food, and dirty link profile.

I can't believe how you people talk out of both sides of your mouths, as well as
your collective rear ends.

This thread should have dead after the first answer of "no."

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nettiapina

8 years ago

Originally Posted by paulgl

I can't believe how you people talk out of both sides of your mouths, as well as
your collective rear ends.

Very nice job in ignoring the context and practically misquoting me. That's YouTube comment thread caliber "discussion" right there. I guess congrats are in order.

Nofollow happens, everyone has that kind of links. Is this concept somehow too complicated and mystifying to you? WTF.

Originally Posted by jobdollarr

You say nofollow do not generate traffic.

You quoted a bit where I said they can generate traffic. WTF.

Seems that the collective level of reading comprehension is in the crapper.

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jobdollarr

8 years ago

Originally Posted by nettiapina

Very nice job in ignoring the context and practically misquoting me. That's YouTube comment thread caliber "discussion" right there. I guess congrats are in order.

Nofollow happens, everyone has that kind of links. Is this concept somehow too complicated and mystifying to you? WTF.

You quoted a bit where I said they can generate traffic. WTF.

Seems that the collective level of reading comprehension is in the crapper.

You accused me of selling snake oil.

In fact I sell backlinks, do not sell snake

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nettiapina

8 years ago

Originally Posted by jobdollarr

You accused me of selling snake oil.

In fact I sell backlinks, do not sell snake

So you intentionally claimed I said the opposite of what I said, and on a point that was completely unrelated. Do you not realize how bad this makes you look? That kind of behaviour is just nasty. You're not willing to discuss the thing that bothers you, but still want to argue on something.

I didn't accuse you of doing anything. You yourself confirmed in the post I'm replying to that you do in fact sell .edu links. In your previous comment it was "some webmasters" that were recommending this for no particular reason. However, I do realize that almost the only folk that peddle this crap are the ones trying to profit from schmucks who don't know better.

If you're claiming that .edu or .gov links have link power other than the link juice those pages have you're using false claims to advertise your service. Plain and simple. Snake oil is very good analogy in this particular case. If you don't understand the history of this expression see Wikipedia.

Of course you're free to argue your case, but so far it looks pretty bleak for you.

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8 years ago

Originally Posted by nettiapina

So you intentionally claimed I said the opposite of what I said, and on a point that was completely unrelated. Do you not realize how bad this makes you look? That kind of behaviour is just nasty. You're not willing to discuss the thing that bothers you, but still want to argue on something.

I didn't accuse you of doing anything. You yourself confirmed in the post I'm replying to that you do in fact sell .edu links. In your previous comment it was "some webmasters" that were recommending this for no particular reason. However, I do realize that almost the only folk that peddle this crap are the ones trying to profit from schmucks who don't know better.

If you're claiming that .edu or .gov links have link power other than the link juice those pages have you're using false claims to advertise your service. Plain and simple. Snake oil is very good analogy in this particular case. If you don't understand the history of this expression see Wikipedia.

Of course you're free to argue your case, but so far it looks pretty bleak for you.

So what points we take?

In my opinion, nofollow is still useful even slightly.
[Although slightly]

Because fanpage also nofollow but helps domain branding.

However nofollow does not affect the ranking of your site

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nettiapina

8 years ago

Originally Posted by jobdollarr

Because fanpage also nofollow but helps domain branding.

However nofollow does not affect the ranking of your site

That's not really a point on nofollow. Of course you should try to advance your business. If you can find fairly inexpensive channel to get quality traffic of course you should use it. In many cases well-kept and active FB page can indeed also help the brand.

Nobody's said that nofollow is something you should avoid at all cost.

My comment first comment dealt with the common misconception that a profile link in an invisible comment in some obscure blog is going to drive traffic.

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jobdollarr

8 years ago

Originally Posted by nettiapina

That's not really a point on nofollow. Of course you should try to advance your business. If you can find fairly inexpensive channel to get quality traffic of course you should use it. In many cases well-kept and active FB page can indeed also help the brand.

Nobody's said that nofollow is something you should avoid at all cost.

My comment first comment dealt with the common misconception that a profile link in an invisible comment in some obscure blog is going to drive traffic.

Some days I add twitter and fanpage.

Alexa from 7 million.
Up to 5 ..... bla bla bla.

I mix backlinks, but not too much.

Might have to keep the level low bounce rate, so that the ranking in raising?

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nettiapina 8 years ago

Originally Posted by jobdollarr

Some days I add twitter and fanpage.

Alexa from 7 million.
Up to 5 ..... bla bla bla.

What do you think that Alexa shows? It's a completely useless vanity metric. Heck, if you've got the browser extension and extensively toiled around with your sites the change in results could be from your clicks for all we know.

Did something concrete and useful increase? SERP results, visits, backlinks...

Originally Posted by paulgl

I do.

I stand corrected.

The Twitter comment kind of went to the wrong guy. I would never say that Twitter works for SEO or for getting backlinks. I know this because I've been tweeting for ages and my profile page is PR5. Last time I checked Google's tweet indexation was just awful - couldn't even find tweets that I had posted year ago. As far as I know it hasn't changed a bit.

The only SEO effect from Twitter is indirect: someone sees your article and links to it from their site. I'm bad at getting links from Twitter, so I don't bother even trying.
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paulgl 8 years ago

Originally Posted by nettiapina

Nobody's said that nofollow is something you should avoid at all cost.

I do.

Twitter is a completely different animal. It has nothing to do with getting
nofollow links just because twitter is nofollow.

That would be a ridiculous statement. Using twitter as an example of
why you should get nofollow links, is like saying to go out and eat
garbage because 100 000 000 000 000 000 000 flies can't be wrong.

Twitter has zip to do with your linking profile. Ditto FB.

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jobdollarr

8 years ago

Originally Posted by nettiapina

I do not believe that nofollow links help directly, but there's no need to shy away from them. They're part of a a balanced, nutritious, and wholesome link profile. Probably Google does something with them. However, there's a huge difference between "does something" and "OMG the ultimate SEO trick evar". Don't fool yourself.

Indeed, nofollow links can drive traffic. Does your average link buried somewhere drive any traffic? Not really, and that's what you need to think about. If you get one visitor per blog comment was it really worth the effort? Is there a way for you to get links that are prominently placed on quality websites, and what would it take?

Wow, this piece of ancient folklore is still alive and kicking. Link is a link, and unless the .edu is something like a front page of a well-known institute it's not worth talking about. The .edu links some people sell are just snake oil.

You say nofollow do not generate traffic.

I use a fanpage for it.
Fanpage = nofollow

Has 4000 fans.
And I have the traffic?

You please explain?

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TimothyEyton

8 years ago

I think this is sort of a controversial topic when it comes to SEO. Obviously diversity is going to be a factor. But personally I think no-follow links will help build authority to your house too.

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paulgl

8 years ago

Originally Posted by TimothyEyton

I think this is sort of a controversial topic when it comes to SEO. Obviously diversity is going to be a factor. But personally I think no-follow links will help build authority to your house too.

It's not controversial nor is it for diversity. That's complete BS.

Nofollow has zero effect on SEO. Period. End of story. Unless, of course, you
want to talk about the bad effects.

But nobody above cares about that. They are just peddling crap.

Nofollow will not help anything.

You people absolutely do not want to succeed. You want to either:

A) Take money from fools who have no clue you have no clue.
Or
B) Be one of those fools.

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johnfsander

8 years ago

Nofollow links don't effect on your SERP but these are helpful to get good traffic and to prove that you are doing white hat SEO because if you have 100 backlinks and all are do-follow and from high page rank definitely you are using paid methods.

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jobdollarr

8 years ago

Link nofollow and dofollow aims to measure the level of spam websites.

I think they should be balanced.
You can use to experiment seo blogger.
Why bloggers?
It adlaah goolge product.
So sensitive to every backlink bloggers in the wake.

If the blogger backlinks safe, meaning it would be safe to berplatfrom wordpress blog host or jomla selft and other php

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BlackWoods

8 years ago

Nofollow links do not pass ranking 'juice' to your site technically, but if a lot of people see it and bring traffic to your site, why not?

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sameon

8 years ago

This is a good discussion and I am learning a lot! I've been thinking lately what's the difference between the two and how can they help when it comes to ranking a website. After reading the comments above, it makes me think dofollow vs nofollow is like SEO and SMM. One brings traffic and the other one helps with the ranking.

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Kevin Maguire

8 years ago

What was the No-Follow tag created for again?

There you go, now time to change that diaper.

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jobdollarr

8 years ago

As a post on fb group, nofollow backlinks simply add your traffic.

It will not increase your rank

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Bigeasy504

8 years ago

Thanks for all the Input... I bought into a PBN and was promised do-follow links. Well after the work that I contracted out. I used SEO moz and seen that all the supposed "Do-follow" links were NO - Follow ... I confronted the guy I hired and he said that since the No-follow links were on high PR BLOGS. IT WOULD STILL HELP A lot. I have been doing this for awhile and I really think He screwed me.

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paulgl

8 years ago

Originally Posted by Bigeasy504

Thanks for all the Input... I bought into a PBN and was promised do-follow links. Well after the work that I contracted out. I used SEO moz and seen that all the supposed "Do-follow" links were NO - Follow ... I confronted the guy I hired and he said that since the No-follow links were on high PR BLOGS. IT WOULD STILL HELP A lot. I have been doing this for awhile and I really think He screwed me.

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A fool and his money are soon parted.

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Originally Posted by Bigeasy504

Thanks for all the Input... I bought into a PBN and was promised do-follow links. Well after the work that I contracted out. I used SEO moz and seen that all the supposed "Do-follow" links were NO - Follow ... I confronted the guy I hired and he said that since the No-follow links were on high PR BLOGS. IT WOULD STILL HELP A lot. I have been doing this for awhile and I really think He screwed me.

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Understatement of the year.

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8 years ago

Originally Posted by Bigeasy504

Thanks for all the Input... I bought into a PBN and was promised do-follow links. Well after the work that I contracted out. I used SEO moz and seen that all the supposed "Do-follow" links were NO - Follow ... I confronted the guy I hired and he said that since the No-follow links were on high PR BLOGS. IT WOULD STILL HELP A lot. I have been doing this for awhile and I really think He screwed me.

What say YOU ?????

Give his reputation management team something to do...
starting with Blackhat forum sh*tlists

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reddy183

8 years ago

Hi,

In my opinion do follow links will show better impact on search engine results.

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halk

8 years ago

Nofollow backlinks is good for your backlink profile look more natural..

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SEOWizard417

8 years ago

Man, who is selling nofollow PBN links? Some real good snake oil there lol.

Get a refund or report him to whatever forums you found his service on.

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jobdollarr

8 years ago

In addition to using ahrefs.
How do we check the links, dofollow or nofollow?

I personally do not buy list PBN blog to my site.

Does it help a lot to you?

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rahulmishra

8 years ago

Hi, Yes no follow links are also very important for any website, they are very effective for website popularity. I have read Google update, where i have read that no follow links also very impotent as like Do Follow links.

At last i would like to say that both nofollow and dofollow links are important.

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jobdollarr

8 years ago

Originally Posted by rahulmishra

Hi, Yes no follow links are also very important for any website, they are very effective for website popularity. I have read Google update, where i have read that no follow links also very impotent as like Do Follow links.

At last i would like to say that both nofollow and dofollow links are important.

How many backlinks that you build in one day for your website?

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kamaldeepchandel

8 years ago

Nofollow backlinks not giving any link juice to your website but its a part of latest link building technique. If you only build do-follow links then Google knows you are creating backlinks for your website. So, try to build both backlink method which is natural in Google's eye.

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jobdollarr

8 years ago

Originally Posted by kamaldeepchandel

Nofollow backlinks not giving any link juice to your website but its a part of latest link building technique. If you only build do-follow links then Google knows you are creating backlinks for your website. So, try to build both backlink method which is natural in Google's eye.

How many backlinks that you get up every day?

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christina21maria

8 years ago

I think Nofollow links have no impact on search rankings this is what Google tell us etc. But no follow links do make a link profile look more natural and there has been some observations that they can assist you.

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ollif

8 years ago

Nofollow backlinks may affect indirectly - since they help you in building your site authority, that's the value in eyes of Google. And they bring you traffic.

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Slade556 8 years ago

Originally Posted by ollif

they bring you traffic.

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Nofollow links may not help you boost your rankings one bit, BUT they will definitely help you get more traffic your way. Of course, it's preferable that you build do follow links, if you can, but don't underestimate diversity either.
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jobdollarr 8 years ago

Originally Posted by ollif

Nofollow backlinks may affect indirectly - since they help you in building your site authority, that's the value in eyes of Google. And they bring you traffic.

What kind of backlinks from sites that you use to build backlinks?
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- TeKn1qu3z 8 years ago
  
  Originally Posted by jobdollarr
  
  What kind of backlinks from sites that you use to build backlinks?
  
  I might think Yahoo answers, Social Network and some other large sites that will drive traffic to our sites. I've used Yahoo answers seen some good things, but we can't find how these Nofollow links are helping.
  
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dealpromocode

8 years ago

in these day's not important are backlink. how build lot of dofollow and nofollow backlink they don't get any rank and how create good content and relevant article post on your website blog and some other article's site news site web 2.0 and some other article related websites they will get result good and fast.
i have a prove my website is dealpromocodes.com now i don't create any backlink but my website some keyword are ranked on google i have lot of this type of prove. so i think you should create good on your website content not any backlink's.

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seven4

8 years ago

It is always best to stick with do-follow if possible as I believe no-follow doesn't actually benefit you however having a mixture of both can never do any harm.

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ropemediahouse

8 years ago

The nofollow tag is basically a notice sign for search engines saying don’t count this. Matt Cutts said: Nofollow Links Won’t Hurt You Unless You Are Spamming at a huge scale

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reddy183

8 years ago

Hi,

Do follow links will not affect your SERPs. Do follow links will help in improving your SERPs.

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Reddy Sekhar.

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ReenaSMO

8 years ago

Nofollow links only help you to get only visit but they are nothing to do with ranking.
We add nofollow links when ever the content is having enough links but we need to add link to the particular keyword we use nofollow links.

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jerryshaw

8 years ago

No follow links can drive traffic to the website further help to maintain natural backlink profile.

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ClaudioBolt

8 years ago

Hi, Dofollow are too waste as Google prefers only niche related links to count for SERP. No follow links may count as links in alexa tool, but nothing gives us in SERP. Building both links would be great as it become natural method of link building.

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sharif alam

8 years ago

Some website does not allow dofollow link, then nofollow link gives you traffic which may help SEO.

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EmilyMace

8 years ago

There is a lot of debate around nofollow links and their impact on SEO. As SEOs I think that we shouldn't be so obsessed with only getting "followed" links. If a link is from a strong site and will pass traffic then I think you should go and get it. If you're really trying to build your brand online you shouldn't obsess over whether a specific link is relevant for SEO - you should be thinking about whether a link is good for your brand, because you can be sure this is what Google is trying to reward. In particular, I've seen Wikipedia drive significant amounts of traffic even for niche terms without huge search volume.

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nettiapina 8 years ago

Originally Posted by EmilyMace

I've seen Wikipedia drive significant amounts of traffic even for niche terms without huge search volume.

That's certainly possible, but I've seen Wikipedia not drive any traffic because the real link is in the bottom of the page and not too many users are interested enough to click through.
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