What can be Killer backlinks?

Thing is, you are just saying a highly dubious thing and then can't back it up with some sort of case study that you or someone else did. Be careful when saying things that can come into question, especially when you're sharing the information as a form of actionable advice.

Help us clear this up by telling us how no-follow-links help your SEO. Does it increase rankings? Does it bring in traffic? Is it brand building?

In what way does these no-follow links help you? If they did help you, can you point to a case where you or someone else isolated the cause behind increased rankings and concluded that it had to be because of the nofollow?

Matt Cutts, of Google, on his blog, said that nofollow links pass neither page rank nor anchor:

https://www.mattcutts.com/blog/pagerank-sculpting/

This is the last sentence on that post of Matt's:
"The essential thing you need to know is that nofollow links don't help sites rank higher in Google's search results."

So, please, remember that nofollow links don't help sites rank higher in Google's search results.

I think comments in other blogs can help you out as a way to start a relationship with other bloggers, just like a tweet or a facebook share, if you leave a great comment in a popular blog, you are not getting a link that help your rankings but it can refer traffic to your site, combined with the relationship you're building that can lead to guest post opportunities or the other bloggers to share your content. I think blog commenting can be useful to noticed by other bloggers that can later on link to your content.

That's just crap. Of course you can study something even if you don't know everything about it.

What you mean is that you're content with anecdotes, and you think that it's unfair that we don't think your dubious ones that contradict common knowledge are any good.

It's enough to note that nofollow links don't usually hurt you, and if you also happen to do something worthwhile you'll get somewhere.

Google doesn't give a toss wether you're active on some random forum or not. They're mostly operating with their algorithm, and that's especially true for us small guys. They just wont notice, and they certainly don't care.


No, they will not. And I have hard time figuring out why this is such a hard thing to understand. Nofollow doesn't rank, and the comment pages of popular blogs usually have way too many comments for those link to really matter in any case.

No. Google doesn't even necessarily have any means to track your site. Even if you use Analytics that data isn't used to rank your site.

Not to mention that a blog comment is usually a very poor way to get a visitor, unless you strike a lucky home run and manage to post a link to a great relevant article.

Not for any keyword that has some serious competition.

That's BS. Or rather, the "the biggest factor" part is BS. I think that Google probably tracks clicks from their search, but it's only a small part of the algo.

But that has absolutely nothing to do with traffic that comes from some random blog comments. That's got nothing to do with rankings.

Do you really seriously think that it's a some kind of indicator if your brand comes on top when people search for your brand? That's just ludicrous. It only says that your brand name is recognizable and unique enough, and nothing else.

If you really want Google to index a page fast, post a link to to it from a site Google crawls often.