Social Marketing by Michelle MacPhearson - Latest Comments in Do Nofollow Links Count - Redux

Re: Do Nofollow Links Count - Redux

Covek Bez — Mon, 24 Aug 2009 23:16:12 -0000

I believe that some links are better than none. When I first started creating my website, and link-building, I commented on some blogs that I was reading before I even knew about creating my own website. I knew that they were "nofollow", but they still helped out my website when they ranked. I'm in the affiliate marketing Niche, so I don't know if it's just the quality of my website, or if I was lucky and received a good amount of traffic. I agree with you on the comment where you said that something is better than nothing. It's always great to have your anchor links out there.

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Dallas Web Design — Mon, 24 Aug 2009 02:15:48 -0000

Are you sure about this? So they create link juice but you did not mention if it is less or equal to a regular link. Whats the point in everyone using nofollow then if it does not do its purpose? I really confused about he whole thing. I had just finished a project getting ranking under a very extremely competitive keyword and it took over 1200 backlinks to achieve it and I did not post a backlink on any site with less than a 3 PR. Also I skipped every site with nofollow tags. I wounder if it would have taken less than 1200 links to reach our goal if nofollow would have came into paly. Because most of the good sites that carry a lot of weight you can bet have nofollow. Just doesnt make since,but then again nothing with Google every does.

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Megaupload Premium Account — Tue, 18 Aug 2009 21:24:43 -0000

well, i have to tell that it was what i always suspected. i made the website wich i link here not many time ago, and in the same day i put it online i inserted a link in my other blog wich is nofollow and guess what... next day i had 3 pages indexed in Google.

Explain that SEO masters... also... how can i after 3 weeks be in G first page for my main keyword with only one dofollow link or 2 maybe and if they are 2, i can say they are from the same website just from different pages.

Do all the testing you want. after all i'm going to post the link here and the keyword i use.

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herniated disc nyc — Tue, 21 Jul 2009 19:40:35 -0000

Great post. I've been wondering this for a while and whether or not all the hard work actually pays off if someone has the no follow attribute turned on in there blog.

Thanks!

Dr. Sadovnik

Re: Do Nofollow Links Count - Redux

Spray Booth — Sun, 19 Jul 2009 01:28:06 -0000

great test michelle!!

here's my take... people should stop doing their nutz over nofollow / dofollow. google is heavily assessing on links coming from broad social contribution, ie blog comments, videos, web 2 properties, bookmarks, directories, photo sharing, social networks and the list goes on.

the point... be active in ALL of it and ignore what everyone says about nofollow -- just get LINKS!!!

the fact is the only reason I commented here was.

1/. I like Michelle
2/. To get a link with anchor text

I did not check if she has enabled dofollow on this blog -- personally i don't care.

Cheers,

Matty T

Re: Do Nofollow Links Count - Redux

Jody — Fri, 10 Jul 2009 13:24:55 -0000

In the spirit of this article, I thought it would be appropriate to leave this comment with a URL and see if my traffic increases. :) Of course, it looks like other people already did the same here. Anyway, I did find the post to be interesting, and it helped me to think about nofollow in ways I hadn't really explored it before.

Re: Do Nofollow Links Count - Redux

Malta — Tue, 02 Jun 2009 10:56:11 -0000

I agree that that nofollow links do help in ranking a keyword, what I'm not sure of yet is the importance being given by Google to the nofollow link. I believe that Google gives more importance to dofollow links than nofollow links.

Re: Do Nofollow Links Count - Redux

milly — Fri, 22 May 2009 12:23:10 -0000

I'm in the 'all links have value' camp too. Firstly, because google isn't the only search engine, but mainly because I believe any link to your site is a good thing and must count for something.

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Scott Galvin — Sun, 17 May 2009 06:58:00 -0000

I would guess that nofollow does pass some value, how much is obviously not clear, which is messed up since Google created it and told everyone to use it when they didn't want a link to pass value. But maybe what is more important for nofollow is that a site will not be penalized if they link to a "bad neighborhood" as long as they use nofollow.

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sports discussion — Tue, 12 May 2009 00:52:26 -0000

Hi there, I think posting to dofollow and nofollow blogs has its own benefits. If you are looking for a dofollow blogs and posting comment to it, Google will see at as "unnatural" because all your links are coming from a dofollow blogs or forums only.

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Wallpapers,widescreen wallpape — Thu, 30 Apr 2009 01:23:05 -0000

I use comment hut as well and is a valuable tool to find word press blog that accept comments. I avoided the no follow higher PR sites, but from now on I will comment on those sites as well. I think it still makes sense to make finding “do follow” blogs a higher priority if whatever tool or method you use has the capability

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Henri Junttila — Sat, 11 Apr 2009 11:45:59 -0000

I just found you and I love you already! Going through your Social Media Daily and it is rockin' (so far) ;)

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martin — Mon, 06 Apr 2009 23:45:08 -0000

Hi Michelle,

Should I post to forums with high index page but the actual page for putting links has no PR at all? Will google still consider this as a boost to my PR?

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Alex Wrobel — Sat, 28 Mar 2009 20:44:37 -0000

Good study. I had the same feeling that dofollow comments still counted to an extent. A lot of my good links were nofollow and they still helped me out.

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Anhdung — Mon, 16 Mar 2009 19:31:17 -0000

Hello Michelle,

would be nice to have someone experiment new stuff? I love it!....just found your site and scan around c what I can learn from you. I used to stay away "no-follow" site and forum for only one reason and you know what that is....? Hell spend five minute wouldn't be hurt.I give it a try.:) thanks again.

Re: Do Nofollow Links Count - Redux

Pregnancy — Mon, 02 Mar 2009 00:54:33 -0000

My conclusion is that you have two things going on with a link, the anchor text and the pagerank. My guess is no pagerank is passed with no-follow, but... the anchor text is still picked up and that is why search engines rank you, not pagerank. As said in a previous comment, stop following the green bar. I am interested in finding out if this test still holds true since this post was is over a year old. Thanks.

Re: Do Nofollow Links Count - Redux

bespoke cakes — Wed, 18 Feb 2009 21:26:24 -0000

I'm totally flexed, I'm going to go with nofollow links still count. Like sumone said above if u leave a good comment you'll get clicks anyway. there are 100s of SEs out there so if you have loads of nofollow links you will still get a bit of traffic from those combined.

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Chef Recipe Videos — Fri, 06 Feb 2009 03:31:34 -0000

Interesting experiment, and it confirmed my suspicions! Cheers!

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Chris at Christian books — Mon, 02 Feb 2009 14:32:07 -0000

Michelle, one thing to also note here, which I may have skipped, is the authority of the site that is using no follow. I have seen movement on pages where I used my link on a no follow blog and it was on a fairly competitive term bc the site was a PR 7.

I'm sure some others could comment on links on a authority site which uses no follow.

Chris

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Review FAQ — Fri, 23 Jan 2009 06:52:54 -0000

Yes Ray, you are correct. No Follow simply instructs Google not to pass Page Rank - it's a Google-specific piece of code they introduced initially to stop the 'benefits' of blog comment spamming. However, the anchor text benefits ARE passed as I've seen on my own sites so many times and that has most importance with ALL the major search engines at present.

Re: Do Nofollow Links Count - Redux

ray — Mon, 12 Jan 2009 19:22:02 -0000

There is a lot of confusion on nofollow/dofollow, I was under the impression that they both will pass the anchor text, but a nofollow will not pass Google pagerank?

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Jesse S - DSL Reviews — Mon, 12 Jan 2009 15:48:03 -0000

Hi Michelle,

To the best of my knowledge, the big G has never proclaimed that a) nofollows don't add to page reputation nor b) that the number of sites linking to you are not part of the algorithm. At minimum, it looks more natural if you have a good mix of backlinks.

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Intercambio — Tue, 06 Jan 2009 18:54:21 -0000

Great post, Michelle!

I noticed that Yahoo! Answers (which also has a NoFollow attribute) recognize some of my comments there and this is a great in terms of Search Engine rankings!
I love reading your articles and posts. Please keep us uptaded.

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Tucson Marketing Pro — Mon, 05 Jan 2009 17:56:46 -0000

Thanks Michelle... great post! I never tried testing "no follow" links, but I definitely will now!

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Rika Susan's Flooring Info — Mon, 05 Jan 2009 08:51:15 -0000

Thanks, Michelle. I think this just goes to show that we should just get on with the job of getting links - no matter if they are dofollow or nofollow. You will get a spread of both over time. Both will be beneficial in some way.