I don't think he meant any harm.. cheers for the feedback guys.
Sorry sir, won't happen again!
Do-Follow vs No-Follow.. What's Really Up!?
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I don't think he meant any harm.. cheers for the feedback guys.
Sorry sir, won't happen again!
Ok so last night I kind of left a short reply here and I would like for my personal illumination to augment it a little.
While a link is a link, and most people should go by this more often than they should, do not expect magic to happen.
Tommy here is providing a very special example that applies maybe for 1% of this forum or less. Not sure how many purchase forbes and the like guest posts considering the price.
So what will happen is most people will try and adapt to their own possibilities and say "ok, so no follow counts for something".
While I can't disagree that it doesn't, you have to take under consideration that a mention ( even a no follow one )from one of the pillar websites of the internet is not going to help you THAT much as you might think.
OP is talking about clients who are already doing ok, they want to secure their brand name, their presence online. They are creating a name for themselves, so do or no follow is equally the same for them.
But this too is not applicable for all. Again, we are talking about authority websites that provide some sense and quality to the web. Most of us people here run affiliate sites and cpa blogs. Securing your brand name "IsellAMAZOnthingsANdMakeMoney" won't do you any good. In 99% of these cases, even 10 wikipedia links won't help. Why? Because there is nothing to help.
On the other hand, say we have ourselves a nice blog, full of information, and it starts getting mentions ( no follow ones ) from all over the big guys left and right directly on its brand name. Then yes, in this case it would be a totally different situation. Even with no follow link, the minute that blog is going to post an article for say a low-medium keyword, they will start ranking it from position 6-12# which makes all the difference in the world.
There is one minor exception that OP left out or didn't consider worth mentioning. No follow links will help you with bing. Yes, bing, that old forsaking search engine. Somehow, its like bing doesn't care about follow tags. Everytime bing catches one decent article from no follow link, it just shoots it in the first page. Traffic from bing is not neglijable. There are cases when they make a huge difference. Personal example would be getting 200 organic peple from bing on an article per day for a specific keyword and just 30 from google. Said article being ranked up just with a bunch of no follow links.
While a link is a link, and most people should go by this more often than they should, do not expect magic to happen.
Tommy here is providing a very special example that applies maybe for 1% of this forum or less. Not sure how many purchase forbes and the like guest posts considering the price.
So what will happen is most people will try and adapt to their own possibilities and say "ok, so no follow counts for something".
While I can't disagree that it doesn't, you have to take under consideration that a mention ( even a no follow one )from one of the pillar websites of the internet is not going to help you THAT much as you might think.
OP is talking about clients who are already doing ok, they want to secure their brand name, their presence online. They are creating a name for themselves, so do or no follow is equally the same for them.
But this too is not applicable for all. Again, we are talking about authority websites that provide some sense and quality to the web. Most of us people here run affiliate sites and cpa blogs. Securing your brand name "IsellAMAZOnthingsANdMakeMoney" won't do you any good. In 99% of these cases, even 10 wikipedia links won't help. Why? Because there is nothing to help.
On the other hand, say we have ourselves a nice blog, full of information, and it starts getting mentions ( no follow ones ) from all over the big guys left and right directly on its brand name. Then yes, in this case it would be a totally different situation. Even with no follow link, the minute that blog is going to post an article for say a low-medium keyword, they will start ranking it from position 6-12# which makes all the difference in the world.
There is one minor exception that OP left out or didn't consider worth mentioning. No follow links will help you with bing. Yes, bing, that old forsaking search engine. Somehow, its like bing doesn't care about follow tags. Everytime bing catches one decent article from no follow link, it just shoots it in the first page. Traffic from bing is not neglijable. There are cases when they make a huge difference. Personal example would be getting 200 organic peple from bing on an article per day for a specific keyword and just 30 from google. Said article being ranked up just with a bunch of no follow links.
Trained Wolf
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Great post to read buddy
EasyProfits
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Impressive post! I still don't understand why some people entirely ignore nofollow links...
justbrowsing1
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I don't think anyone is saying that. Just that paying $1000 for a nofollow link isn't worth it. The SEO benefits from those types of sites wasn't that great even when they were do follow.
And most businesses won't get a ROI with the traffic from those links, people on here with affiliate sites definitely won't lol.
didnt do anything
the proespect bught them himself in hope of ranking.
however, I'm out. no time for seoroundtable style articles now.
Good.. although not bothering to comment in the first place would have been better, but I know you can't help yourself.. you need that ego fix.
You're like a 16 year old kid going round the forum posting abnoxious self righteous replies to people. You seem to have some sort of chip on your shoulder.. hard life maybe? I've seen your activity here on a few levels and across a lot of threads.. you like to think you're better than other members, yet you can barely string a coherent sentence together most of the time.
This is the white hat SEO section, and even at that if you don't like a thread then simply scroll on by.. or here's an even better idea, since you know so much why don't you save some of the time you spend posting asshat comments and funnel that into something constructive for us.
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I do. It aint that much fun repeating the same old stuff .
MrshunE
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rickydzine
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I agree with most of this and to add, I believe No-Follow links are mostly important to ensure googles web crawlers aren't sent to every single website on a basis of "Trust this site, I recommend this website". They still follow no-follow links, but it's the referring page doesn't "endorse" the link. If it is that the link followed makes perfect sense and is very relevant, if the page which sent the links have authority then naturally you will get an increase in rankings.
damoneyleague
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This article is incorrect, no-follow links have no effect on Seo at all. They are good for generating traffic from clicks, but even Matt Cutts himself has said the links are dropped from Googles graph of the web altogether. Any SEO "experts" selling you the link diversity myth is misinformed or selling you a lie
damoneyleague
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Though I will say, they have a "indirect" impact only when they lead to getting do follow links elsewhere; more than likely the case with seo's saying they are actually ranking with them
How about 35, pure NOFOLLOW blog comments pointing to Homepage.
why not
Really dude? If we all listened to Matt Cutts we wouldn't be buying or even building links at all.. we'd be hammering out content all day waiting and praying to get noticed naturally.
No-follow links help rankings.. I don't care whether Matt admits it or not (of course he won't, he's a master of deception), I've seen it first hand.
