3 Reasons Why No-Follow Links Are Still Good

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Did you know that Google still follows the site even if it is no-follow? I've actually tested this and what no-follow really means is that link juice is not passed through to the other site. It's Google's way of thinking, "this site does not want to be associated with this link." Google will still follow the link, meaning .. being indexed faster.

and get this .. anyone who reads your comment and IF you left a valuable or helpful comment .. they might in turn click on your link and visit your page .. so more traffic.

lastly .. it's all about looking natural. you can't have 100 "do follow" links and no "no-follow." Google even knows that that's not natural because a lot of sites are no-follow by default.

you want variety and naturalism with all your link building campaigns.
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  • Totally true and many people forget this. The more natural a link profile looks the better. Not to mention that it will generate traffic if done the right way. Its not all about link juice, there are many other factors that people should think about when they are working on their link profile.
  • Will no-follow results in increasing the page rank of my site? In what ways does no-follow helps my site in SERP. How many no-follow links is best for any websites. Since too much of backlinks from no-follow sites is leads to penalty. Am i right?
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    • That's a lot of speculation lol. I guess if I link to your site with lots of nofollow sites, then you will be penalized. Makes sense...
    • It won't help PR, but that shouldn't be the main focus .. and yes, it should in fact help SERP's though because it's still helps in your link building campaign.

      You shouldn't have one or the other totally .. have a mixture of both follow and no-follow to look more natural, but too many of a certain link will not penalize you.
    • Definitely not!

      If there is no link juice then how it will help out in getting pagerank?
  • very good and important post describing rightly the importance of even the no follow links. We need both do follow as well as no follow links.
  • Many people are not going to believe you, but I do, as I have also tested this. Variety in linkbuilding is key.
  • I was in dilemma whether to create NoFollow links or not.. But i also read in an article that NoFollo Links are also helpful some what in traffic generation. Now I am more confident ! Many Thanks
  • Absolutely, no-follow backlinks can help new websites get indexed quickly, and comments can bring us traffic, and the most important reason we have to build no-follow backlinks is, there aren't enough do-follow websites for us.
  • Nofollow can't be good. The traffic you get is very little compared to how you would get if the link was dofollow and had your serps optimized!
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    • I don't see how they would bring less traffic? A link is a link .. and anyway .. you still need them for variety..
  • If you do" no-follow" links as well as "do-follow" links it seems natural to Search Engines. Basically Google Like it.
  • This is great news as I have built quite a bit of no follow links
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    3 Reasons Why No-Follow Links Are Still Good

    Did you know that Google still follows the site even if it is no-follow? I've actually tested this and what no-follow really means is that link juice is not passed through to the other site. It's Google's way of thinking, "this site does not want to be associated with this link." Google will still follow the link, meaning .. being indexed faster. and get this .. anyone who reads your comment and IF you left a valuable or helpful comment .. they might in turn click on your link and visit your page .. so more traffic.