PR5 NoFollow Links from Yale.edu

Micallef

Supreme Member

Apr 29, 2009

1,345

1,231

• Aug 8, 2009

• #1

Ordinarily I wouldn't have put this up, thinking it useless, but I've seen a lot of people here saying that they think nofollow links are valuable. If you are among these people then you might be able to make use of this:

site:http://research.yale.edu inurl:wiki

A lot of the results have PR 5. You can sign up to some of the the wikis and edit them with your link.

Why am I posting this? I found it, didn't want to use it myself and remembered all those comments left by people who think nofollow is useful.

 

X

xgnux

Regular Member

Sep 26, 2008

492

154

• Aug 8, 2009

• #2

no follow isnt usefull.

 

Micallef

Supreme Member

Apr 29, 2009

1,345

1,231

• Aug 8, 2009
• Thread Starter Thread Starter

• #3

I know But a lot of people on this forum disagree.

 

V

Vas^Co

Junior Member

Feb 27, 2009

104

12

• Aug 8, 2009

• #4

everthing you share it's usefull or not i always say thanks like my mother teach me ^^V

 

mightybh

Senior Member

Feb 27, 2008

1,029

1,734

• Aug 8, 2009

• #5

Nofollow links have been actually proven to boost your SERPs. Fair enough, you won't get any PR but what is the point of PR when all you need is search engine traffic?

 

designsonline

Power Member

Jan 22, 2009

651

146

• Aug 8, 2009

• #6

Matt Cuts openly said on his blog that No-Follow links dont pass PR, NOR do they pass anchor text. So unless you think the link will actually bring you visitors, then a no-follow link is useless...

 

M

Motamindi

Newbie

Jun 13, 2009

16

1

• Aug 8, 2009

• #7

I also do not believe that no-follow links are useful. I just lost a few links because they were made no-follow and the related pages dropped about 10 positions in the serps.

 

mightybh

Senior Member

Feb 27, 2008

1,029

1,734

• Aug 8, 2009

• #8

Like Japanese say being told is not experiencing. I actually went and generated nothing but nofollow links to one of my new domains and managed to rank it for the keywords I was targeting. Matt Cuts also said that bowling is impossible and that Google does not treat Edu and Gov domains any differently yet everyone is doing this.

 

M

m7shsh

Regular Member

Jun 17, 2007

202

128

• Aug 8, 2009

• #9

great i will try it

thanks for this post

 

Bacanze

Junior Member

Nov 12, 2008

159

54

• Aug 8, 2009

• #10

As usual, no one I'm aware of can post concrete evidence to support either theory, however we know than G does follow no follow links, due the sheer amount of times people have been index with nofollow links (yes this has happened to me), it's just that weight isn't given to that particular link. A nofollow is a protocol which basically says "I don't editorially endorse this link" which much of the time makes sense, take blog commenting for example (although most now use moderation, they generally don't check each website).

Overall I believe nofollow may be used to determine relevance in Google at least, or even contribute to authority (yes that doesn't make a lot of sense, but you might figure why possibly ).

 

S

squelsh

Regular Member

Mar 19, 2009

349

171

• Aug 8, 2009

• #11

Stephan Spencer: OK. So, I guess, a follow on to that would be: a .edu and .gov link, and so forth, has, typically, a more pristine link neighborhood, so it is not just about the PageRank, right? The link neighborhood comes into play.
Matt Cutts: That is a little bit of a "secret sauce" question, so I am not going to go into how much we do trust that sort of stuff.
Stephan Spencer: OK. I am going to slap my wrist now. Ouch, ouch!
Matt Cutts: [laughing]