Should I care if backlinks are follow or nofollow?

by Ryan700

Posted: 15 years ago 20 replies

I have come across 3 scenarios when commenting on blogs. Some have dofollow on your name and allow anchor text in the comment which is nofollow.
Some have nofollow on the name of the commenter and dofollow on the anchor text in the comment.
And others have nofollow all the way around.
It's a lot of work trying to find blogs to comment on let alone choosing which one to make comments on.
Do you research as far as getting the best link juice for your comments by choosing only one kind of blog to make comments on?

#backlinks #care #follow #nofollow

tpw

15 years ago

Link Juice means that you are getting value for the link from the search engines.

NoFollow links carry No Value in Google's search algorithms, but the NoFollow does not apply to Yahoo or Bing, only Google.

The flip-side is links that could generate click-through traffic to your website. If a particular page offers you the hope of click-through traffic to your website, then the NoFollow does not matter.

If you are seeking Link Popularity value from Yahoo or Bing, then NoFollow does not matter.

But if you are leaving comments ONLY for Google-recognition, then you should avoid NoFollow links, because they will be a waste of your time.

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butters

15 years ago

Originally Posted by tpw

But if you are leaving comments ONLY for Google-recognition, then you should avoid NoFollow links, because they will be a waste of your time.

Before you take that advice, question to all I guess, does only having DO-Follow backlinks look natural?

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Midas3 Consulting

15 years ago

Originally Posted by butters

Before you take that advice, question to all I guess, does only having DO-Follow backlinks look natural?

Nope, it doesn't.

It's very hard to gauge however whether it's a part of the rankings algo and if so , to what degree.

To be safe we also throw a few in to the mix on any campaign.

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butters

15 years ago

Originally Posted by SimonHarrison

Nope, it doesn't.

It's very hard to gauge however whether it's a part of the rankings algo and if so , to what degree.

To be safe we also throw a few in to the mix on any campaign.

Yeah, that was my thinking to.

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Mike Anthony 15 years ago

Originally Posted by butters

Before you take that advice, question to all I guess, does only having DO-Follow backlinks look natural?

Thats not something that anyone who does alot of backlinking has to worry about. Its the nature of backlinking that you will lose some backlinks pretty early on to them being made nofollow. You don't have to go out looking for nofollow. They find you while you are looking for dofollow anyway.
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tpw 15 years ago

Originally Posted by butters

Before you take that advice, question to all I guess, does only having DO-Follow backlinks look natural?

Personally, I could care less whether a blog is DoFollow or NoFollow... If I want to leave a comment, I leave a comment...

I never take the time to look to see if the link is a DoFollor or NoFollow... I consider that a waste of MY time...

I think that if you are pursuing a more natural linking portfolio, then yes, you should try to get some NoFollows and DoFollows, and you should seek links from as diverse a set of websites as possible...
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- colgate 15 years ago
  
  Simple
  
  Follow= Good (if the page has good PR)
  Follow= Okay (if the page has low or no PR)
  NoFollow= No value. Waste of time (do not bother)
  
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shaktimaan

15 years ago

Originally Posted by tpw

If you are seeking Link Popularity value from Yahoo or Bing, then NoFollow does not matter.

Can you show any official statement from bing and yahoo to prove this?

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tpw

15 years ago

Originally Posted by shaktimaan

Originally Posted by tpw

If you are seeking Link Popularity value from Yahoo or Bing, then NoFollow does not matter.

Can you show any official statement from bing and yahoo to prove this?

According to the subsection "Interpretation by the individual search engines" at the Wikipedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nofollow):

# Yahoo! "follows it", but excludes it from their ranking calculation.

# Bing respects "nofollow" as regards not counting the link in their ranking, but it is not proven whether or not Bing follows the link.

# Ask.com ignores the attribute altogether. [1]

In the official Bing documentation, they seem to be saying that they only respect a NoFollow if it is in the Meta Tag... Be your own judge of what they are saying: Bing - Robots Exclusion Protocol: joining together to provide better documentation - Webmaster Center Blog - Bing Community

In this article, Search Engine Journal asked the powers that be at Google, Yahoo and Ask about how they treat NoFollow links, and each of the three engines responded: How Google, Yahoo & Ask.com Treat the No Follow Link Attribute | Search Engine Journal

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Underground SEO 15 years ago

yeah, I don't really look into getting no-follow links, I would advise you to just concentrate on google and just maybe sprinkle a few no-follow for yahoo etc, but concentrate your main linking efforts on do-follow links.
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JosephCosgrave 15 years ago

Personally I like to drop mostly dofollow links. But if I find a blog that's PR4+ and nofollow, I still drop a link
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- Ryan700 15 years ago
  
  I found something interesting. As I was going through my bookmarks in Firefox - I have a folder with blog bookmarks - I found that the "Gurus with Blogs" have fewer blogs that are "follow" than the people who aren't "gurus". So these ones aren't going into my "Follow Blogs" folder from now on.
  I found this out little quirk out through the "NoDoFollow" plugin for the Firefox browser.
  
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rosaline 15 years ago

Do follow and No follow link is the main aspect in SEO.We should care about do follow and no follow link.For google no follow link has no value but it has value in yahoo , bing etc.
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Dr.faizan 15 years ago

Any backlink is better. But Quality backlinks to matter..
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actionplanbiz 15 years ago

in think nofollows from high PR sites still helps raise your PR
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- kevinflatt 15 years ago
  
  Yahoo includes nofollow sites in its list of backlinks to my sites.
  
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IntegratedS 15 years ago

SEO will generally care about the do follow links as the can increase the backlinks...
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Marko Vel 15 years ago
Yes it's true about nofollows, Wikipedia recently added rel="nofollow" to all of there external links, so links from Wikipedia will not allow you pages to be seen by search engines.

Check this:

1. How does your search engine treat the No Follow attribute?
- Google : The Google bot does not follow that link.
- Yahoo : If we find a link we make it available to our algorithms to find new content, whether it has a 'no follow' attribute or not. However, if the 'no follow' attribute is present, it means that no attribution is given to the target from the source of the link.
- Ask.com : We have never officially supported No Follow, so your questions don't apply to our crawler/ranking.
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- stevejobs 15 years ago
  
  Not to worry much as both nofollow/dofollow never resist any traffic.
  
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Alexander CPA 15 years ago

Interesting question, you should care in some senses, obviously building do-follow high pagerank backlinks is good for improving your websites overal pagerank, we know this because of the 'link juice' being passed on from one website to another, but to have a natural looking website, you need to have a natural looking mix of backlinks, so in order to do that, you'll also need to build no-follow backlinks.

Overall, you shouldn't pay too much attention to this, unless your trying to improve your pagerank directly, for simple link building, you don't need to worry, either way it's going to help the website's SERP ranking, that's what really matters.
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