Importance of nofollow

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Dear Experts,
As we know Wikipedia is a nofollow but backlink from wikipedia is like a thumb up from president for Google...
Very Little amount of wiki backlinks can rank a site..
What about importance of nofollow?

If next update of google will be a good for nofollow backlinks what you say???..
#search engine optimization #importance #nofollow
  • never helpful in any terms because if google allow no follow link will be helpful then his business of ppc going to shutdown.
  • I don't think Google has been throughly remove value of nofollow links, even if no value for seo, I always believe that Wikipedia is worth doing because its high ranking and exposure on Google, but it is hard for me to get link into Wikipedia.
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    • Thank you, thank you God for one of your miracles!!!!!!!!!!



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    • Exposure is one thing....the other is crapola.

      Google (their employees) invented nofollow. So one would assume they
      can remove anything they want.

      Paul
  • never.. this is impossible. the updates of google cant rank them.. because this will a huge blast for marketers.. and others expert..
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    You obviously don't have a clue what you're talking about.

    Just a bunch of off the wall 3rd world rambling.
  • I have not seen a high-ranking website without nofollow links, social links are valuable although being nofollow, So that the key is that you have the links from relevant and valuable content.
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    • Accurate thinking is important even though most people, including you, don't indulge in it.

      The question is not: Are nofollow links useless from any point of view? The question is: Are nofollow links useful for SEO?

      Here's where accurate thinking comes into play:

      If you know nofollow links don't help SEO you don't go and create a ton of them, for the sake of creating them.

      If you create some, as in you choose to participate in some kind of social media activity the way you create it is different, you actually participate in the site in a manner that other people who visit that site find engaging, so that they visit your site and buy whatever it is you're selling.

      I've never seen someone get promoted who didn't show up for work regularly is a lot like what you said about nofollow links. People don't get promoted because they show up for work regularly; showing up for work regularly allows them to do the other things that cause them to get promoted...

      The fact that you've not seen a site rank that doesn't have nofollow links can only mean 2 things:
      1. you didn't look well
      2. whois, what's the value of your site, and similar sites exists and create nofollow link to any site as soon as they find out it exists.
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  • No-follow back links from highly reported website still matter for Google as Ranking factor of your website.. All the no-follow links are not helpful for your website, its just for traffic source for your website.
  • It doesn't matter whether if it is no follow or do follow as long as the link contains the interesting and beneficial content in which delivers great user experience. Google consider these qualifications to make your site as a hub of information to the users.
  • nofollow doesn't help your rankings... i thought this was common sense lol
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      It is common sense that's why some of these guys aren't ranking any pages, no common sense.

      The one yahoo even keyword stuffed his forum profile name, lmao, along with a nofollow forum sig.

      Clearly spam is all that matters here, ranking pages isn't happening.
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  • That's actually a really good analogy. As in Google doesn't give a crap about either of those.

    When the press gets all about that thumb up from POTUS, and Fox News brainfarts something about Benghazi or whatever talking points they've got running at the moment, and every politics blogger just has to cover it to overanalyze the meaning of this gesture - then you know there's some link juice flowing around.

    Does that happen with your Wikipedia article? I'd bet that the answer is no unless you're the Most Interesting Man in the World.
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      You can gain direct traffic from a nofollow, assuming the link is on a targeted webpage.

      I have a few thousand nofollow forum links, they don't rank pages but do bring in direct traffic.

      The key with that is targeted traffic. Dropping nofollow links on random sites/pages is useless, no direct traffic (none that converts ($$)) & no SEO since the link is nofollow.
  • Nofollow helps prevent people from spamming such sites with their links
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  • nofollow can get you traffic nobody questions that. But if you think that somehow a nofollow link will increase your rankings at all then you are sadly mistaken. You could have 10,000 nofollow links and you would be better off having 1 dofollow link (in terms of seo)

    thanks and have a good day SIR
  • Both do follow and no follow have the equal importance. The backlink signifies that if reader of content is not getting the answer, then he can go to the link for more details if the visitors is getting his desired answer which he is seeking for, then it would count as a good backlink which obviously have the major impact on search engine, and it doesn't matter whether it is do follow or no follow
  • Nofollow link can increase your website traffic but can't help to improve website ranking in search engine.
  • Google isn't very clear about how it uses nofollow in its algorithm. It would look rational to use the fact one of your page is linked from wikipedia as a trust boost even if it's a nofollow link. Chances are you don't get link juice, but it could be a positive signal for Google.

    Anyway, having nofollow backlinks won't harm your SEO, an ideal link profile has follow and nofollow backlinks. It's just "natural".
  • I don't see why people still value nofollow for seo value. Come on guys... its 2015....
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    Dear Experts, As we know Wikipedia is a nofollow but backlink from wikipedia is like a thumb up from president for Google... Very Little amount of wiki backlinks can rank a site..