zerofoxtrot
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Now I've googled alot about nofollow & d0follo\_l_/, some say they help, some they they don't. So I'll just ask here: Do NoFollow backlinks increase SERP?
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Jinko
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Not really. They don't pass on much (if any) authority/link juice but as stated above they can help overall as it seems like a more natural linking pattern to your site. Thousands of DF links and zero nofollow links flags suspicion! There has been talk of G changing the way they view nofollow links but I guess we'll have to wait and see how that one turns out..
veheme
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The strategy is always to make the link profile appear natural. This means that naturally, people will link to you despite being no follow. This means that if your site or your page is truly interesting, different types of links are going to point at you which includes the no follow links. To answer your question, yes, they are important not as as SERP boosters but as SERP protectors.
Techxan
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I have also gotten a site indexed with one link from Yahoo answers, proveing that n0follow is followed.
Just because a lot of people believe something is true, doesn't make it so. Get any natural looking links you can, and ignore the follow attribute. The truth is they ARE followed, they pass (some) authority, and they are natural links for a normal site to have, increasing the PR of the site they point to, especially if they are related to your niche.
There are no absolutes in SEO except that Matt Cutts will lie to you.
blackfrank
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For every 100 people on here that say no follow helps, you'll find 100 who says it doesn't.
JanaSEO
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No Follow links will not directly increase SERPs.. but do not think that you dont need them.
No Follow links are very natural to the search engines and can help out immensely in maintaining consistent rankings.
Ex: Just imagine taking steroids, you will see significant gains from this.. these are like do follow links. Now think of No Follow links like vitamins.. even though you are not noticing an immediate impact from the vitamins, they are still adding things to your body that it needs. If you do not take these vitamins you can even crash from all the steroids.
Example might be lame but its the best I can think about for this relation.
Enjoy!
No Follow links are very natural to the search engines and can help out immensely in maintaining consistent rankings.
Ex: Just imagine taking steroids, you will see significant gains from this.. these are like do follow links. Now think of No Follow links like vitamins.. even though you are not noticing an immediate impact from the vitamins, they are still adding things to your body that it needs. If you do not take these vitamins you can even crash from all the steroids.
Example might be lame but its the best I can think about for this relation.
Enjoy!
mikenielson143
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No follow links does not help in increasing ranking but it is beneficial for the traffic purposes.
indusharma
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According to mine no follow backlinks are usefull in increasing traffic to website. so i think no follow backlinks are also important.
Although no follow links don't pass link juice to your site they do pass relevance. So if nofollow link comes from website relevant to yours then it is still huge value. For example if you sell gadgets and you have no follow link from technology related blog it is still very good value and this link worth a lot from SEO perspective.