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Friday, March 21, 2008

So What Links Should you Nofollow?

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When I write an article, I

When I write an article, I put links to sites that are relevant to my content. I don't really bother about all dofollow or nofollow things apart from discouraging spammers which are already handled well by my disqus commenting system. And still I get enough PR if that also means anything to anyone at all.

Great

I think the links that should nofollow are affiliate banners and rss feed

Duplicate content...

This is a good description of what to follow and nofollow. I've recently gone through nofollow on my Wordpress blog to reduce duplicate content. I found that all of my tags were getting indexed, which gave me a lot of duplicate content.

Nofollow paid links

Nofollow paid links are still good because its also all about traffic which can turn to a client.

opinion

Personally, on my smaller sites, I do my best to keep non-essential pages no follow. Pages like privacy, about us, shopping cart, check-out pages, etc; I usually make no follow. Although I have no physical proof, I suspect that this helps strengthen my other pages from an SEO perspective as whatever PR my site has stays on my most important pages.

Mixture of both.

IMHO,

a mixture of both dofollow and nofollow links are good. If the content of site you link to are close in the content wise, having a dofollow in fact will have more benefits.

thank you for tip

nice article i think i`ll no follow some links from my site

Thanks

Thats amazing article... Thnx for sharing ;)

why not

I think do follow can only help a website.

My Thoughts

Im dead against the nofollow tag to be honest, but then again i have started to implement it on some of my outbound links, its ok for Matt Cutts with his blogs PR7, after all everyone and anyone wants to backlink to him, but for us the normal minority webmaster its getting more and more difficult to get decent backlinks to our sites, the nofollow rel tag is lets be honest extremely selfish to say the least, 90 percent of blogs are nofollow, and the web is now highly populated with blogs, every tom, dick and harry has a blog now, i guess that nofollow is just something that we need to get used too, because today its the age of the selfish blogger...

great

nofollow is an HTML attribute value used to instruct some search engines that a hyperlink should not influence the link target's ranking in the search engine's index. It is intended to reduce the effectiveness of certain types of search engine spam, thereby improving the quality of search engine results and preventing spamdexing from occurring.

No Follow Pages

Personally, on my smaller sites, I do my best to keep non-essential pages no follow.  Pages like privacy, about us, shopping cart, check-out pages, etc; I usually make no follow.  Although I have no physical proof, I suspect that this helps strengthen my other pages from an SEO perspective as whatever PR my site has stays on my most important pages.

Thnx for sharing your

Thnx for sharing your knowledge. :)

Useful thanks...

Thank you for this informative article...

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I've found that nofollow

I've found that nofollow doesn't help with any aspect of hte site other than discouraging content spam. Simple as that for me.

no follow is really bad?

no follow is really bad?

Thanks for all

It is not easy to find such informative and usefull articles. I have learned a lot and hope that I can use it for my homepage. Thank you for your great work.

I have a lot to learn

I never knew there was so much to this.

None

I have always believed that people should stop loyal visitors from getting a bit of link juice

It's not harming them in any way - so I'm for DoFollow

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excellent

Excellent detailed article wrote. Helped me a lot.

And Another excellent article

I am gonna be an seo expert with these articles.  Thanks for effort in posting a detailed explaination on seo stuff.

Regards
PT

Nofollow

I have always had trouble figuring out which to make a nofollow link and this helps. I have had my contact page with a dofollow and changing it now but like you said you dont want search engines picking up your contact page because it does you know good, plus you could get penalized by google for a page with little to no content value.

Links

A good example is Yahoo Answers, it is no follow but it drives traffic to your website. The key point is - are you only looking for building links or looking for links which can be of value to your website just beside link juice.

NO follow

I believe the issue of No Follow and DO follow has only come up as link building has undergone a sea change. Do Follow links add link juice and so everyone wants it but there are a couple of website which are No follow but drive traffic to your website.

waste of time

isn't google smart enough to figure out which of your pages deserve page rank without you having to 'no follow' everything?  is the algorythm really going to decrease your page rank from your more important pages in favor of your privacy policy?  doubt it.  i'd rather be creating content and watching 80's videos than trying to game google.

Oragnic Search

I also get 95% from organic search and the bounce rate is more than 60%. I don' t know how to improve my landing page. Should I have more content? Could you please suggest?

Anyway, thanks for useful article

many people have asked me

many people have asked me about this, now I have a better understanding of it. Your article answer a lot of questions I will have to give you a dofollow back link. Yes there are other tags that can be used to get  better results. I have learned alot from this thanks.

I have seen many sites that

I have seen many sites that has no idea how to use the nofollow tag and even no follow their own internal links. Most webmasters do not understand that this is just what it means dont followthis link. When spiders see this link the stop and don't go to the page its link to. There are other tags that can be used to get better results link the noindex tag. I dont want to write an article in the comment but webmasters should take the time to learn the other tags and how to use them. great article keep up the great work.

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