Comments on: DoFollow Links vs. NoFollow Links

By: anu

anu — Fri, 22 Jul 2011 13:41:56 +0000

Thanks for sharing useful information. You can get a dofollow link from some article and RSS Directories too.

By: Communibus Locis

Communibus Locis — Thu, 31 Mar 2011 18:01:16 +0000

@Kevin: Yeah, I don’t know why I approved those comments. Must be the LSD.

Of course I should come back here more often to see comments like yours…..from DECEMBER……

AGH!

By: Sam

Sam — Thu, 06 Jan 2011 16:52:00 +0000

Here is my opinion on the matter. No follow links may not pass a lot of juice, but I think they factor into your overall ranking. If you look at backlinking tools such as Site Explorer and Webmaster Tools no follow links appear in the report and often higher than other do follow links. I haven’t done extensive testing, but when I look at my competitors who have a high rankings, they have a lot of no follow links in their backlink portfolio

By: Kevin Kane

Kevin Kane — Wed, 15 Dec 2010 22:19:45 +0000

I agree with you, but the last two comments on this post are spam.

So it seems you’re having challenges moderating the spam?

By: froslo

froslo — Wed, 27 Oct 2010 06:43:33 +0000

You can get a dofollow link from RSS Directories too.
Froslo – Free Dofollow RSS Directory.

By: Sean

Sean — Wed, 16 Jun 2010 19:52:47 +0000

Some people suspect that Google actually does follow no-follow links, and count them (obviously speculation only).

It’s a conundrum for Google I think. For instance Wikipedia is now no-follow on all external links. That means that a huge, human moderated, source of links is unavailable to Google’s algorithm.

Of course Wikipedia did it to combat spam links, but consider this: would Google’s results be better counting those links, despite some spam (which is actively removed by moderators), or are they better ignoring all of them?

Extend it to its logical conclusion: every link on the internet becomes no-follow, which means no links are counted. Google is out of business, and the internet becomes unsearchable on a large scale, and presumably goes back to early 1990s directories (social bookmarking sites).

Seems to me that human moderation is the way to go, and if an unmoderated blog fills with spam, then Google can discount that site as a link source (after all they can detect the sort of egregious spam that results from that can’t they?).

By: Communibus Locis

Communibus Locis — Mon, 22 Feb 2010 13:49:53 +0000

@Dave:

your question makes my ass hurt… ;)

The answer is:

Engaging in quality communication in the blogosphere, quality content, quality questions and answers will ultimately work. It’s just slow.

By: Dave

Dave — Sun, 21 Feb 2010 15:17:16 +0000

Thanks for the info about dofollow and nofollow links.
The question is: “Is generating dofollow blog backlink traffic really worth the time and effort that it takes to make quality comments on dofollow blogs? Does it really work?”

By: neelam

neelam — Thu, 10 Sep 2009 09:06:27 +0000

thanks for the nice information and clearly defined the difference b/w Do follow link and No follow link.

By: Communibus Locis

Communibus Locis — Thu, 27 Aug 2009 21:01:01 +0000

Dofollow links pass on Google PageRank “link juice” and nofollow links do not.

That’s one sentence on a very contentious topic!

Basically, if you are worried about PageRank and you are vying for a top 10 spot in the SERPs in a tightly contested key word/phrase area like “weight loss” or “cheap viagra” then you might have to worry about dofollow and nofollow to sculpt PageRank passing. Otherwise, for mere mortals like us, who gives a flying fuck??

We’re lucky to have two readers a post let alone get into the top 10 on the SERPS.