Matt Cutts Clears the Air

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17 commentsTuesday, June 16, 2009

Google's No-Follow Changes Explained

Matt Cutts Clears the Air

17 Comments

By Send gifts to Pakistan (WPN reader) - Thu, 11/05/2009 - 01:56

Do follow best

According to my experience do follow links transfer page rank juice but no follow don't, so do follow links are more better as compare to no follow links.

By hgw (WPN reader) - Sat, 10/31/2009 - 07:32

Influence on internal links - example

One thing that still isn't clear to me - how does this change in Google's strategy influence internal links.

Let's say we have 10 internal and 5 externl links on a homepage start document (index), and a PR of 4 for that page.

Before the change 5 external links were nofollow. So the PR juice is 4/10 to each of the internal links. Right?

After the change - no matter of the external links are nofollow - the internal links get 4/15 of the PR, that means less.

The only way to increase the link juice to internal pages is to remove links from this page (no matter external or internal).

Am I right, or do I miss something? Thanks!

By Johno (WPN reader) - Tue, 10/13/2009 - 15:08

Arrgh... It's all gettting Complicated

With the ever changing ways to build a site and help to promote the site, how can we all stay ahead of the game? It all makes sense, and is understandable we all want good information about whatever it is that search at the time, so google finding and ranking the best sites will surly end up with a better user interaction, i'm a practicing webmaster and am fairly new to all of this and the last project i have worked on is for Hypnotherapy Milton Keynes and it all seems to be going well. Loving the site and thanks for the info.

By شات (WPN reader) - Tue, 09/22/2009 - 04:55

شات

yes were option of google
is nice

By منتديات (WPN reader) - Tue, 09/22/2009 - 04:47

منتديات

Yes you are right you, your page rank is stable and your page rank juice is remain same, so your decision is right.

By العاب باربي (WPN reader) - Tue, 08/25/2009 - 13:13

NonE

Bad spamers
i Het spamers

By texxs (WPN reader) - Thu, 07/30/2009 - 09:56

Why no follow? Easy:

" . . . why, then, should we no-follow anything? . . ."

To be mean. Or so that the site receiving the link doesn't get any juice.

Some people feel that using no follow in links in comments reduces spam. personally, I think good policies, practices and programming eliminate comment spam easily so you should not use no follow, unless you just want to mean to everyone who takes the time to comment on your site, like your some kind of republican or something.

By digitalpointing (WPN reader) - Sun, 06/21/2009 - 14:10

Let's decide what to do now

Well, I'm a bit confused after reading about this topic again and again in different blogs. Well, I read the post Matt did in his blog - actually I think I was the first one to read that first - at least I could be in the first 100 viewers who saw the post the first day - but after reading his post, I didn't knew that this was this serious - as written in numerous blogs out there. I didn't ever thought that this could become this famous. Well, after I came to know about this latest news - I went and read his post again some 3-4 times - still I didn't noticed anything important in it - Well, let's make it clear :-

Earlier :-

---> If we put a no-follow link, it wouldn't pass anchor link and pr juice right? So, the other do-follow links used to get the full effect of PR juice.

Now,

---> The no-follow link will just evaporate PR juice right? Am I correct. Now, the other do-follow links won't get full effect of PR juice since some amount of PR juice went away (without coming to use for anyone) - yup some PR juice evaporated !!

Am I right till now??

Well, so what shall we do now? I don't personally use No-follow links anywhere specifically.

So, people who don't use No-follow thing, should worry about anything or not?
And, does it gonna affect comment section in blogs? anyways ? if so how? I'm a bit confused regarding this - saw comments in blogs that people will stop comments section.

Cheers ...

By منتديات (WPN reader) - Thu, 06/18/2009 - 02:49

this will help spamers

Hi,

I think this will help spamers

to put their links every where !!!

so it will harm the webmasters ..

By Somjai (WPN reader) - Tue, 06/16/2009 - 19:30

Use of no-follow links

I use no-follow links to avoid being suspected of having paid links. I mean when someone pays to advertise on my site, they are paying for the click throughs. They have a no-follow attribute on their advertisement so Google won't think I am hosting paid links.

Does this make sense, and am I on the right track?

By Chabad (WPN reader) - Thu, 08/20/2009 - 00:36

Hello, Yes you are right

Hello,

Yes you are right you, your page rank is stable and your page rank juice is remain same, so your decision is right.

By Hicham (WPN reader) - Tue, 06/16/2009 - 15:20

Happy Birthday

Mike, the reason for the title of my comment is this part of the article:
The change Google implemented ‘over a year ago’ according to Cutts. Made Google count the outbound links regardless of the no-follow attribute

Poor SEO Gurus who didn't know about it till today.
Happy Birthday :)

By IBL Builder (WPN reader) - Tue, 06/16/2009 - 14:28