A nofollow in forum

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When I see this within a URL on a site...

a rel=nofollow href

So, that "rel=nofollow" part, does that mean that this link is worthless because search engines won't count it or is there any value other than someone might click the link? If no value, why are people still posting blog / forum links?

My niche has nothing to do with SEO or IM.
#search engine optimization #forum #nofollow
  • If the forum is a high traffic forum, signature links even though with nofollow attribute have potential to draw traffic to their websites. Also they can advertise their services there with other members. Also users may treat that forum as a place to learn more by participating discussions with Gurus.
  • It means the link is worthless in Google's eyes but Bing & Yahoo still count it
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    • If you are thinking of ranking and getting high traffic then you can follow some of the following things you can follow:
      1. Remove duplicate content
      2. Keyword use in document title
      3. Number of backlinks
      4. Anchor texts of backlinks
      5. Keyword use in body text
      6. Age of web site
      7. Keyword use in H1 headline texts
      8. Keyword use in domain name
      9. Keyword use in page URL
      10. Mentions on social sites
      11. Server speed
      12. Keyword use in H2-H6 headline texts
      13. Keyword use in IMG ALT attributes
      14. Top level domain of web site
      15. Keyword use in bold body text
      16. Number of visitors to the site
      17. Keyword use in same domain anchor texts
      18. Keyword use in outbound anchor texts
      19. Keyword use in same domain link URLs
      20. Keyword use in outbound link URLs
      21. Keyword use in meta description
      22. Number of trailing slashes in URL
      23. HTML validation of web page to W3C standards
      24. Readability level of web page
      25. Keyword use in the first sentence of the body text
      26. Search engine compatibility


      Kind regards,
      Swrajit
  • As per my experience you get benefit from no-follow backlinks also but it should be from a reputed , related or high page rank website.
  • Nofollow means that PR isn't transferred over (created to stop SPAM). However, forum links can be a source of huge traffic so I'm not really bothered about the SEO value.

    In fact I would recommend that you set forum links to nofollow so you don't incur any Google penalties.
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