Do nofollow links provide any value for ranking?

Man because lately there are some questions that NEED to be answered like that and stop all the insane flux of nonsense some people post just to spam their signatures, so lets start walking the walk lol

Don't stop building links. They are required for better ranking of any site. Still nofollow links do not add any weightage to link building strategies - no link juice. Try to get some quality do follow links. Analyse your niche and develop off page strategies that works well. You can do Video marketing, Content marketing, Deals promotion, infographics. Make use of social signals.

I'm afraid it's a case of building dofollow links, been like this since Google adopted nofollow (2005). So not a lot has changed in the past 10 years regarding nofollow.

Tell a lie, in 2009 Google started deleting the link benefit that would have passed through nofollow making it so not only does the page the links are pointing at gains no SEO link juice, but the page the link is on is damaged SEO wise (link juice is lost!).

Look for link bait ideas, when they work they can generate a lot of dofollow links.

David

Dave,

Are you able to provide us with something to read from Google that actually proves me wrong? Because if you could find actual proof that would obviously put this discussion to rest and I would appreciate actually Knowing something new. I can not provide any proof for my argument. Google is normally very ambiguous about their methods.

I have read so many articles over the years but have never found something that says it has "No SEO value" from Google themselves, no linkjuice sure, but really, "No SEO Value"? I know they say they don't follow the link, but then it ends up showing in your webmaster tools, though it does not show the anchor text, it does show the pages it links to and from, so Google does not exactly ignore nofollow links, also from my own experiments I seem to have increased my SERP for several keywords with NoFollow alone.

"Chasing Carrots Blog" below tends to bring me up for instance, not a difficult keyword to rank for in the world for sure, and not often searched, but I was #6 or so for years until I changed the signature below, which I am aware is about the lowest kind of backlink there is. Of course that is not Proof of anything, I could have simply outranked my competitors with other factors, but it does tend to make me think there might be some value to it since I have not put any other effort into increasing that keyword rank, nor have I sought out any dofollow links. I also believe I changed my signature after Warrior went NoFollow.

The question was if there was ANY SEO value, and I say sure, probably some...no link juice though.

I think one should not worry about no-follow or do-follow link if your link is relevant and is providing the similar information which you are stating.

Moreover, it anyways help increase online presence.

OMG! Too many theories and myths, seems like it's better to remain a developer

Your Question will be appropriate if you have replaced dofollow to nofollow because everyone knows dofollow links are more important than nofollow.