Ignore Nofollow? – Think Again!

That’s very interesting. I have the same suspicion that google doesn’t really care about it.

I am sure that it has some effect with a “no-follow” link, at least it will get your page indexed if your having troble with that. Maybe a good thing would be to point to the sitemap of your site?

hush! hush! Keep this secret. I am off to comment in nofollow blogs with high PR.. if this is correct then i will get PR5 atleast as i have nofollow backlinks from 8 Pr7 pages and 16 PR6 pages.. and some pr5.. Lol if it works then grt..

the only reason I think why dofollow blogs can prevent spam is that they tend to be more strict with approving. Of course, a nofollow blog would generally mean a virtual non-spam blog, something that other writers would prefer having.

If all blogs were required to become dofollow/nofollow, then there would be no debate as to which one is better.

Sunil… LOL! Now I think I’ll do the same! But really – I have noticed backlinks popping up even when I comment on no-follow blogs. Though, I have to say, do follows are my current target. However, in the end – if a blog post comes my way and it merits a comment, I’ll leave it – regardless of its follow status.

yes,I also studying this point these days,you are right,I also found out many links of the nofollow tag.

just do it,but don’t spam it!

I came to this page researching whether or not certain PR7 pages with nofollow attribute would count or not. I remember reading somewhere that if the only anchor text that exists, that google knows of, points to your page as a nofollow — then that nofollow link passes anchor text value so the page could be found with that anchor text, even though its from a nofollow.

This lead me to believe that perhaps Google still considers them, however places some kind of modifier on it, like make it worth 100th the value it would have been if it were dofollow, even if only relating to anchor text and not passing PR.

Which makes me think … 1/100th the anchor text value on a PR7 page is still very much worth it. I don’t know that for certain and never read it, I’m just theorizing out loud, though I did hear that a nofollow can pass anchor text value when there aren’t any other dofollows passing that anchor text.

if i check my links in google webmaster tools i see all my nofollow links indexed.

Interesting, I have not heard about this

Some really good points. Concerning conversion rate and usability, the no follow doesn’t matter. But if and when google will implement this factor is the bis question.

Nofollow links are indexed by Google but notice that they don’t appear whenever you query “link:” not even those linked from high PR pages. I don’t think nofollow links count for Pagerank, they may deliver traffic for your site, but won’t give Pagerank.

Agree with Rewy … Now adays dofollow blogs are most popular for the link-building part of seo.

I am currently doing some SEO.. Someone told me that nofollow links are a “no! no!” Now you gave another point of view.. that nofollow links are somewhat helpful.. Now I’m confused.. Hope someone could enlighten me more of what is best to do.. Thanks thanks…

dofollow is good if you are trying to build a network, establish relationship with your visitors and “socialize” your blogs.

I follow your blog for quite a long time and should tell that your articles always prove to be of a high value and quality for readers.

Nofollow links do not have any SEO value. Of course they can bring you some traffic but they will not be considered as positive votes for your website.

Thanks to the author and commentators! I’ve been studding the issue of non-follow links for a while, and this is a valuable information.

That’s an interesting article. I just wondered if you could tell me where to find more info on this topic ?

Google clearly said on one of its blog that it not follow any link that has “nofollow” enabled but when I have looked into webmasters tool, Google is showing all inbound links that has “nofollow”.

After doing some research on net finally I agree that Google will index all inbound link with this tag but will not pass link juice and you will not get page rank benefits.

blogwalking brother…

I believe dofollow do pass link juices while nofollow do nothing but a possible human traffic though googel index them all. But yahoo and MSN still follow no follow links.

Also I agree with you that ignore nofollow is not a good idea. That remind me of your another article of what happens when you combine a .edu blog + PR4 post + dofollow + no moderation whatsoever!!! That is the last thing we are willing to see.

In responce to the post made my Kevin, I’ve been link building to my website and have 60+ Pr0 links at present, many of them are nofollwo, despite this I have now got onto page 2 of Google, so Pr0 and nofollow must be doing something right?

I made my blog, Architecture with a capital A, dofollow two weeks ago and despite listing it in most of the major follow directories, there has been only a modest rise in visitors. Still its early days yet and I’ve become a committed dofollow blogger.

Nice article. I completely agree with you. Nofollow links are not to be under estimated. Also, I remember reading somewhere that some search engines ( including yahoo) do not discriminate between nofollow and dofollow links. Is this true?

waw..
seo things always make me got headache..
it’s so complicated..

I do not like nofollow. ist to much manipulation in the serps

Well this is just a theory and as you see nobody can really tell if no follow links are ignored by g-crawlers or not. But one thing is for sure when i checked my webmasters tools I’ve noticed that there are less links that points to my blog which means no-follow links are really working but there’s a twitter url that points to me. now that’s weird perhaps this theory is worth checkin out

I think it is important to build nofollow backlinks as well. This helps make link building efforts look real and natural. Like JD, my google webmasters tools is showing nofollow links like those from my twitter profile

Ive noticed on yahoo site explorer that links from sites using nofollow still show up on external links, not that it proves anything one way or the other as to whether these links will benefit my page rank.

Google sometimes count no follows as do follow I noticed it to, it seems as though its counted for a while then it’s not I don’t know but I hope it helps ranking in the long run. Interesting post.

Nofollow is a possible value of the attribute rel in the markup of HTML. Many search engines, such as Google, rank pages based on the number of other websites that link to them, but ignore links that contain rel=”nofollow”. This attribute determines whether Wikipedia has any influence on the search engine ranking of any page linked to by Wikipedia. This article is an attempt to gauge community opinion on whether or not Wikipedia should use the nofollow attribute.

thanks for sharing

Nofollow links do not pass ONLY PageRank, so, is worth as much as the link on the page PR n/a (not to be confused with PR0), but if you provide traffic, its value increases in each level

yes, when I checked my backlinks i found some nofollow links in some blogs’ comments.
I think this will cause much more spams

It all comes back to the point I think Google wants us to adhere to anyway… allow sites to grow organically. Nofollow clearly has *some* value to the engines. But the true value of any link is still the viral nature of it.

Focus on building a site worth visiting, put it out there on a few related blogs and social media groups, and PR will follow regardless.

It is pretty much impossible to say for sure, what i will say is that a few competing websites of mine have much more no follow links than me and i have more do follow than them yet they are higher than me

I strongly agree about the spammers trying to gain link juice by spamming dofollow sites/blogs – because some moderators don’t always have the energy to read all comments they turn on their automatic “approve comments”, which makes a web page not SEO/SE friendly.

I have not heard about this

The information was great..But i have some doubts with what Rewy has commented because i think his view is agreeable. Nofollow links can only give a better traffic but cant help in increasing the pagerank..Search engines always consider only the dofollow links not to be spammy because they are moderated..
Thanks for sharing valuable information Aira.

Great Post….I agree with what you have to say as this is how I understand….Nofollow links…and dofollow links…so overview I would say both are good..one links the other traffic….excellant info…

Good post! I liked the info you contained in it. I would have never learned of this website if I did not see it Googling random things!

“No follow” links leading to your page can definitely get it indexed, which can be a huge benefit. While I don’t believe these are as good as “do follow” links, they’re still worth spending a small amount of time for two reasons: 1)Yahoo and MSN seem to ignore the “no follow,” or they pass on a little bit of link juice anyway, and 2) if you’re building links you want it to look as natural as possible, and a few “no follows” pretty much takes care of that.

Such a very informative blog. Search engines always consider only the do follow links not to be spammy because they are moderated. thanks for sharing the information…

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I have been doing with the idea for several weeks but I haven’t had the time to set-up a blog and just comment on nofollow blogs to see if it picks any up at all. I guess this is the only way to test it. If anyone does can they let us all know, cheers!

Nice article, nice thoughts. I think there is still a long time to pass for things to get cleared around this nofollow/dofollow buzz.

It is true that nofollow links do not pass page rank, but search engines also slightly value link popularity, which is the number of ALL links to your site regardless of nofollow/dofollow status, or pagerank. Yahoo and msn bing appear to put a higher value on link popularity, but by far, incoming pagerank is the most important part, and that is only gained from dofollow links.

thanks for sharing your tips with us…

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Im not sure… but surely sensible commenting and being your brand has got to be worth something! 

Nice and helpful post but i think sometime Nofollow site and link also give good ranking & traffic result
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