So many Nofollow links! Why?

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Hi Guys,

Not very happy at this moment and a little guidance to some understanding to what I just witnessed could alleviate some of the pressure.

I have owned my blog for about a year now. For my blog's rankings, the main seo linking I have done for it are guest blogging and blog commenting. All have been done manually and all by me.

As I was checking over my backlinks to my blog in Ahrefs, it says I have a total of 52k links. Out of all those backlinks, 40 some thousand are nofollow.

I couldn't believe it! :confused: So many?

As I link built, I made sure a good chunk of what I was doing was dofollow as well as adding nofollow in the mix.

Again, only 8k links are dofollow? Can't be right.

I know alot of my blog commenting was using the CommentLuv feature and was relying on it quite a bit, even to this day.

Is that a bad idea? Are the links that good from CommentLuv? Do they even last? Should I stop relying on link building using CommentLuv?


Any words from you guys is greatly appreciate! Thanks for listening!


p.s. I still think guest blogging is the best form of promotion and link building, especially guest blogging on higher ranked blogs.
#links #nofollow
  • Profile picture of the author paulgl
    There is no such thing as dofollow...but many sites have
    retrofitted nofollow due to a complete misunderstanding of
    what nofollow was for. And, many small website owners
    are using nofollow for even more ridiculous reasons.

    Now I don't like a lot of sig links, but at least so far the
    WF has not fallen under the spell of nofollow nonsense.

    If enough people drink the koolaid, like squidoo, it might be
    coming.

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    • Profile picture of the author webtolight
      Originally Posted by paulgl View Post

      There is no such thing as dofollow...but many sites have
      retrofitted nofollow due to a complete misunderstanding of
      what nofollow was for. And, many small website owners
      are using nofollow for even more ridiculous reasons.

      Now I don't like a lot of sig links, but at least so far the
      WF has not fallen under the spell of nofollow nonsense.

      If enough people drink the koolaid, like squidoo, it might be
      coming.

      Paul
      I can see where you're going with that Paul, but there still needs to be some regulatory measure when it comes to quality.

      I do agree that small sites are misinformed and will go with any non-credible intention that they have in their minds.


      All I want to know is the links in CommentLuv are reliable or not?


      Thanks for your reply!
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      • Profile picture of the author paulgl
        Originally Posted by webtolight View Post

        All I want to know is the links in CommentLuv are reliable or not?
        I would imagine that google looks at those links with a wink.

        I have seen a lot of commentluv sites turn on nofollow, which
        effectively would give a lot of nofollow backlinks that were
        previously not.

        Look at squidoo. I had built thousands of backlinks on hundreds
        of lenses. Now, in the blink of an eye, they are all nofollow.

        Ditto with reddit, digg, etc. a while back.

        Paul
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  • Profile picture of the author Kevin Maguire
    Sorry man, but you say you have done 52k backlinks manually in a year? Like 1000 a week. WOW.. Have you slept yet?
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    • Profile picture of the author webtolight
      Naw Ahrefs is off with that number. It's more like between 10k to 15k links built manually.
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  • Profile picture of the author DPM70
    It's called trying to manipulate the SERPS - it's been punished for quite a while now. If what you have been doing is guest posting and blog commenting in order to manipulate search engine results (which you've pretty much admitted to) then you're gonna feel the heat.

    edit:

    All I want to know is the links in CommentLuv are reliable or not?

    wouldn't touch them with a barge pole! Likely to be spammed to death. A quick and easy footprint to find for spammers of years gone by.
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    • Profile picture of the author webtolight
      Originally Posted by DPM70 View Post

      It's called trying to manipulate the SERPS - it's been punished for quite a while now. If what you have been doing is guest posting and blog commenting in order to manipulate search engine results (which you've pretty much admitted to) then you're gonna feel the heat.

      edit:

      All I want to know is the links in CommentLuv are reliable or not?

      wouldn't touch them with a barge pole! Likely to be spammed to death. A quick and easy footprint to find for spammers of years gone by.
      I see. But the guest blogging part, I don't see my intention of manipulating Google.

      Maybe the commenting part, but not guest blogging. Did that with high quality . Even got my articles on well ranked and respected blogs.
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  • Profile picture of the author smodha
    So you built 10K-15K manual backlinks in one year?
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  • Profile picture of the author PerformanceMan
    There's nothing natural about a website getting 15,000 links in a year, especially when the majority come from 'ComLuv' comments.
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    • Profile picture of the author Andyhenry
      Originally Posted by PerformanceMan View Post

      There's nothing natural about a website getting 15,000 links in a year, especially when the majority come from 'ComLuv' comments.
      Have to say that sounds like a rational comment on the surface of it.

      I never really got why people fixate on follow/nofollow because unless you're putting links in places where your audience are not going all links you do should be useful.

      If you're plastering links in places where your customers do not go and doing it just for link juice then well you're at the mercy of other people and Google so you can't really argue if you don't get the results you want.
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      nothing to see here.

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