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No-Follow Blog Comments - Are They Worth Posting?

by nmb
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I have seen some discussion about follow and no-follow blog comments - do no-follow blog posts offer any benefit if a link to your site is inserted?

I know the benefits for SEO are probably nil but is it worth posting no-follow blog comments?
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  • Profile picture of the author sfx1971
    I would say yes as it looks more natural to have a mixture of nofollow and dofollow links


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  • Profile picture of the author Umer Aslam
    I have found that having nofollow links also boosts your rankings and as said by "sfx1971":
    I would say yes as it looks more natural to have a mixture of nofollow and dofollow links
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  • Profile picture of the author Katherine Wheel
    There's a very good article on Chris Rempel's blog about the effects of the Penguin algorithm change - take a look at that.
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  • Profile picture of the author Alexa Smith
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    Originally Posted by nmb View Post

    No-Follow Blog Comments - Are They Worth Posting?
    Different people are going to have different answers to this one, clearly.

    For me, they're so much worthwhile posting that (in spite of being able to see with one click, from the Firefox add-on) I don't even bother to check whether or not the links on the page are "no-follow".

    Originally Posted by nmb View Post

    I know the benefits for SEO are probably nil
    I don't do blog commenting primarily for SEO, but even so, I don't believe that they have no SEO benefit, anyway.

    Most search engines seem to ignore "no-follow".

    Many people believe that even Google doesn't discount "no-follow" nearly as much as it sometimes claims: it's ambiguous at best.

    People who have already decided that "no-follow" backlinks are not so good for SEO may not be interested, but others like yourself who are a little more open-minded will find many threads here explaining/discussing interesting things about no-follow links: this one might start you off, and then there's more here, here, here, here, here, and so on.
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    • Profile picture of the author hilarious89
      I think we should not bother about do-follow and no-follow sites, just have to keep in mind that the links must be build on relevant niche. Building links on relevant niche should be our main concern while link building.
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  • Profile picture of the author loi77
    They have no direct SEO benefit, but they are crucial to make you link building campaign looked natural in Google's eyes.

    If is doesn't appear natural, Google can penalize you site.
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    • Profile picture of the author Matt Duggan
      Originally Posted by loi77 View Post

      They have no direct SEO benefit, but they are crucial to make you link building campaign looked natural in Google's eyes.

      If is doesn't appear natural, Google can penalize you site.
      Exactly what he said...

      Also, apart from the SEO benefits, blog comments (regardless of 'follow' status') are a great way to establish a little credibility and some traffic too.

      I still get a trickle of traffic from Yaro Starak's blog from a comment posted months ago.
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  • Profile picture of the author Dragontech
    Dofollow is what helps you rank

    Having some, lets say 10-20% nofollow links in your backlink profile would make things look much more natural.
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  • Profile picture of the author ammywood
    yes to some extent..
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  • Profile picture of the author imgeek2727
    No it's not worth it. No-follow links do not even register as valid links so it doesn't help your SEO to have a mixture of both.

    A Google search bot only sees it as content text and not a backlink. Concentrate on do-follow sites in your relevant niche.
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    • Profile picture of the author Zach Crawley
      Originally Posted by imgeek2727 View Post

      No it's not worth it. No-follow links do not even register as valid links so it doesn't help your SEO to have a mixture of both.

      A Google search bot only sees it as content text and not a backlink. Concentrate on do-follow sites in your relevant niche.
      Sorry, but you are wrong and I'll provide why. No follow links do in fact get registered by Google, but they do NOT give you any link "juice." No follow is just telling Google that they do not want to be associated with the site that's linking on theirs. As well as what other people said, it is also good to have a mixture of both to look natural.

      Also, you can get a ton of traffic from blog commenting from people clicking through to your site as long as you associate a link with your name.

      Check out these as well.

      http://www.warriorforum.com/adsense-...till-good.html

      http://www.warriorforum.com/main-int...ommenting.html

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  • Profile picture of the author Velant
    If it's quality blog - then yes, by all means it's worth it. For the seo point of view - you make you backlink profile look more natural, from traffic point of view - if you comment is valuable and informative, you generate highly targeted traffic and that's priceless! Plus you build relationship with the top bloggers in your niche - invaluable.
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  • Profile picture of the author nmb
    Some very useful comments there - seems that a mixture of no-follow and follow links would make you link profile look more "natural" in the eyes of Google. Concentrating on just a couple of areas of link building can be dangerous - as a lot of us will have seen over the last couple of years.
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  • Profile picture of the author sscot
    Use this Firefox plugin to check whether is it Do Follow or No Follow.

    https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/fir...on/nodofollow/
    https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/fir...ollow/reviews/
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    • Profile picture of the author VanessaB
      I found a blog related to one of my niches, that gets about 35,000 visitors per month.

      I picked an article I liked on the site, I don't even think it was on the first page, but I can't remember for sure now.

      I left a comment about THAT article.

      The ONLY place I had my link was in the 'field' for it, not in the comment itself.

      Within 48 hours, I'd received over 50 visitors from that one little comment.

      And Google not only had nothing to do with it, but they can also never do a damn thing to stop me from getting that traffic.
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    • Profile picture of the author hilarious89
      Originally Posted by sscot View Post

      Use this Firefox plugin to check whether is it Do Follow or No Follow.

      https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/fir...on/nodofollow/
      https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/fir...ollow/reviews/
      Thanks for sharing this add-ons. But which color indicates no-follow? Pink or blue?
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      • Profile picture of the author mrsvirtualassistant
        They can help you with link diversity. Additionally, you will gain exposure for your business and establish credibility. If your comments provide value to other users, you will get traffic as well.
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  • Profile picture of the author Plaskass76
    yes a lot of experience marketers and seo's say they are, as they give you naturally looking backlink profile.
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  • Profile picture of the author Brian Snipes
    If you leave good quality content and it's a heavily trafficed blog, the comment can get you a lot of followers.
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  • Profile picture of the author larry1113
    Yup they are for diversity's sake but I wouldn't spend too much time on them
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  • Profile picture of the author JaynKeth
    Regardless to whether it is do follow or no follow, if it can bring traffic, and the site has a lot of visitor and relevant to our topic, I think you should build the link there.
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  • Profile picture of the author JSProjects
    As others have said, they're good for diversity. (And potential traffic on niche related blogs.)
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  • Profile picture of the author jewelraz
    ok, I avoid no-follow links but reading this article, I think I will post comments in no-follow blogs as well.
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  • Profile picture of the author computermesh
    Anymore G is going after sites with unnatural backlinks. Would it look natural if 100% of your links are DoFollow? Mix them up some. Throw in some EDU's, comments, social, and you'll get your rankings.
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  • Profile picture of the author uoftenwinny
    No-follow also a way to promote websites, sure it worth doing so.
    SEO work should be done well and comprehensive.
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  • Profile picture of the author rosesmark
    No Follow links doesn't help you in ranking but its gives you some benefit to other search engines like yahoo and others
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    • Profile picture of the author hilarious89
      Originally Posted by warriorsaroj View Post

      I have heared somewhere that nofollow links help you to get better ranking on search engine.
      You have heard the wrong thing. Do-follow links helps to get better ranking, Not no-follow. No-follow links are needed to look your backlinks natural.
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  • Profile picture of the author jeradparker
    I would suggest that a fine balance should be made between the both. Even if the no follow blogs don't give you any seo benefit still they can give you a good amount of traffic which will ultimately benefit you in your effort of making your site popular, which is the main purpose of doing seo.
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