Wordpress - No Follow or Do Follow?

by mediasurgeons

Posted: 13 years ago 7 replies

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Myself and a friend have been debating whether the "nofollow" or "dofollow" tag in the source code of wordpress sites makes any difference.

Now I don't believe it does because there are plenty of sites out there that have no follow and achieve top page rankings and it has never been mentioned in any of the IM guides I have read on getting ranked.

My friend who works for a large company insists this makes a big difference.

Any experts care to shed some light on this?

#follow #wordpress

Andy Crofford 13 years ago

I am not really sure why he thinks it would make a difference in the search rankings.

With that said, a lot of times I will remove the nofollow rel as a "reward" for people posting comments but when you do this I highly recommend you moderate all comments to cut down on SPAM.

Andy
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mediasurgeons 13 years ago

Yeah I figured it made no difference seeing as I checked sites like Amazon and other tops sites and they are all nofollow.
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Istvan Horvath 13 years ago

Originally Posted by jacobjoseph

Myself and a friend have been debating whether the "nofollow" or "dofollow" tag in the source code of wordpress sites makes any difference.

For whom?
Maybe both of you should do some reading about it before engaing in debate... Because for the site where the links have the nofollow attribute it is IRRELEVANT! That's for starters...

Originally Posted by jacobjoseph

Now I don't believe it does because there are plenty of sites out there that have no follow and achieve top page rankings...

Of course, there are because... see above!
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dofollow and nofollow are NOT about the site where you find those attributes in the sorurce code. You guys got it from the wrong end, LOL

If I have on my website a link to your website and it is a no-follow link... it tells the search engines just that: DO NOT FOLLOW THIS LINK AND DO NOT GIVE LINK JUICE TO THOSE GUYS
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stevmark008 13 years ago

I am not really good in wordpress but I think there is no difference. I agree with some warriors.
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Kysersoze 13 years ago

I only buld wordpress websites now and always have them as nofollow in order to discourage would be spammers at least a bit. I have many of my sites on the first page some in top positions for certain keywords.
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jgab 13 years ago

i think there is no difference
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- jminkler 13 years ago
  
  If you do follow links to questionable sites, expect to get punished for this.
  
  I'm talking about spam sites, maleware sites (do you know for sure?), and just bad sites in general.
  
  If your site "references" a bad site, that means your site gave an "upvote" to that other site, saying "this is a good site to go to". In the eyes of Google this is a bad thing.
  
  This is what google calls "bad neighbors"
  
  Identifying Penalized Web Sites and Bad Neighborhoods
  
  Your friend is right in that you should only use do follow links on sites that are trusted.
  
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