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Question About Getting Links For Article

by Daniel Scott
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Hi guys,

Have recently started getting into article marketing and am trying to generate links to my articles on EZA to get them rated higher in the search engines.

I have been using a lot of social bookmarking and so on for this.

My question: is a "nofollow" link useful in ANY way, SEO-wise? Or is it purely for human visitors to follow? Because a lot of the links I am getting is "no-follow". My site is getting spidered in other ways (and the articles are on EZA, so no probs there) but I DO need the link benefits.

Thanks,

-Dan
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  • Profile picture of the author omozu
    please can you be direct with your ? and let us know what you want so that we can help you pls come again
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    • Profile picture of the author Shellaine
      As far as I know if understand what you are trying to ask, a no follow is not a link back to your site. If you need a link ack to your site use those blogs or sites that has a Do follow.

      Check with the others what they have to say.
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      • Profile picture of the author GeorgettaSterling
        Sigh. Once more into the breach!

        Google (who essentially came up with the "nofollow" attribute) tends to honor it and CLAIMS that they will not follow the link (with their spider) back to the page it is pointing to. They also appear to NOT give nofollow links any weight or authority. However, some people have reported that "nofollow" links from very authoritative sites appear to cause Google to spider a site, despite the "nofollow" attribute. Generally - "nofollow" links probably don't help your SEO with Google.

        Yahoo and MSN don't appear to honor the "nofollow" attribute, and in fact DO follow (spider) "nofollow" links back to the page/site. Yahoo appears to also give some weight to "nofollow" links, and MSN essentially ignores the "nofollow" convention entirely. Yahoo DOES use "nofollow" themselves - this may be a nod to Google. For example, most links on Yahoo Answers are "nofollow" - - I have suspicions that this is to help Answers rank in Google's search results...and links from Yahoo properties (like Answers) are highly valued in Yahoo's ranking results.

        So - long story short: "nofollow" links won't help SEO much in Google, but probably do in Yahoo and MSN. Yes, Google is the biggest search engine, but that doesn't mean they are the only important one. And it DOES appear to some that Google may spider sites by following a "nofollow" link, although that site doesn't get any authority from the "nofollow" link.

        Clear as mud?

        Best Regards, Georgetta
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  • Profile picture of the author Lightlysalted
    No Follow links have no value from an SEO perspective, however that doesn't mean they are completely useless because you can still benefit from the traffic. Just out of interest, why not create your own site and post your articles and build backlinks to them? That way you could earn some money from ad revenue rather than get nothing from just promoting ezine articles.
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    • Profile picture of the author Daniel Scott
      My articles are on my own site - hosted as a wordpress blog. However, EZA has SEO-power my site will never have, and it means that in the end the result is more or less the same - getting them to click through to the sales page to get the sale. I link to the blog and salespage in the resource box anyway, so I don't really think there would be much benefit to putting it on my own site anyway.

      Plus, links needed to get it on the front page of Google using EZA = not that many. Links needed for EVERY ARTICLE to get to the front of Google with my own site = thousands upon thousands.

      -Dan
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    • Profile picture of the author Black Hat Cat
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      Originally Posted by Paid Surveys View Post

      Just out of interest, why not create your own site and post your articles and build backlinks to them?
      Why do you think people submit articles to article directories? To build backlinks to their site, among other things.
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      • Profile picture of the author Sirric
        Dang i just posted a question like this in a diff forum, heh should have checked here first. Thanks guys this was extremely helpful.
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  • Profile picture of the author Gunter Eibl
    About rel="nofollow" - Webmaster Help Center

    Nofollow links are still good because they can still drive some traffic and it is also more "natural" than building follow links only.

    Gunter
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    • Profile picture of the author Terrybear
      Make it simple, dofollow link will provide you PR juice which can improve your PR (Google Page Rank), but nofollow will not provide you any PR juice.
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      • Profile picture of the author Daniel Scott
        So "dofollow" is actually a tag? What happens to "normal" links? Are they just automatically "dofollow" links? If so, what's the point of the "dofollow" link?

        -Dan

        P.S. thanks for all the cool replies!
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        • Profile picture of the author Terrybear
          Dofollow not a tag, dofollow is a HTML attribute value used to instruct some search engines that a hyperlink should influence the link target's ranking in the search engine's index. It is intended to increase the effectiveness of certain types of search engine.

          The website or blog mostly default as nofollow. Mean "normal" link is nofollow link which will not provide you PR juice
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