What is up with nofollow links, anyway??

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I cannot wrap my head around nofollow links. Of course I understand that it tells google to not count the link toward PR or whatever, but what I do not understand is why it might be beneficial at all. Sure, someone might click on the link and find the website, creating organic traffic, but that hardily counts for anything.

Doing an internet search just gives vague reasons for why nofollow links are beneficial. And yet SER and Scrapebox blast them in the form of blog comments. So they must have a real purpose, or else they would not have this ability... right?

Seriously, no BS, do nofollow links do anything?
 
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you need them for diversity

as for nofollow....
Wikipedia said:
Google announced in early 2005 that hyperlinks with rel="nofollow"[4] would not influence the link target's PageRank.[5] In addition, the Yahoo and Bing search engines also respect this attribute value.[6]

On June 15, 2009, Google software engineer Matt Cutts announced on his blog that GoogleBot changed the way it treats nofollowed links, in order to prevent webmasters from using nofollow for PageRank sculpting. Prior to this, webmasters would place nofollow tags on some of their links in order to maximize the PageRank of the other pages. As a result of this change, the usage of nofollow leads to evaporation of pagerank of outgoing normal links as they started counting total links while calculating page rank. The new system divides page rank by total number of out going links irrespective of nofollow or follow links, but passes the page rank only through follow or normal links. Cutts explained that if a page has 5 normal links and 5 nofollow out going links, the page rank will be divided by 10 links and one share is passed by 5 normal links.[7] In order to avoid the above, alternative techniques were developed that replace nofollowed tags with obfuscated JavaScript code and thus permit PageRank sculpting. Additionally several techniques have been suggested that include the usage ofiframes, Flash and JavaScript.[citation needed]
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also is anyone still using scrapebox to simply blast out comments? thought that died years ago. Its a scraper not a poster really IMO
 
also is anyone still using scrapebox to simply blast out comments?
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I have no idea, I have experimented with using it for manual posting, because it makes it more convenient to go down a list. But if they are all nofollows, seems like a waste of time.
 
Nofollow links are useless if you ask me even if its from google.com

Some say they give your site "authority"

I say they are useless.
 
Diversity is really important ..and we need nofollow links for diversity.
 
In a natural link profile a site gets links from variety of sources, no pattern of anchor text, deep page links , home page links, do follow links and no follow links. Google likes natural link profile. If you get no-follow links it will not help to rank directly. It helps indirectly to create some good impression to Google.
 
Mixed of do and no follow links will be more natural and gives you diversity, it would be good to use 20% no follow links
 
ive ranked something with 100% nofollow in the past. blog comments. so i can't agree with the "nofollow has nothing" crowd. if you see something good and its nofollow, still take it IMO
 
Hmm, Google seems to only say they don't effect PageRank though. Google doesn't say that nofollow links aren't effecting actual Search engine rankings...
 
"but that hardily counts for anything"

I'd say getting a targeted visitor is more important than ranking and not getting one?
 
Nofollow links are still useful to diversify anchor text portfolio and backlink portfolio. Also, they help website look more natural because having 100% ******** backlinks is not natural at all =)
 
Nofollow basically means unsanctioned imo... I think the primary intended use originally was probably user generated content to combat comment spam, etc
 
Unless I rank, I wouldn't worry too much about creating diversity wth no links
 
jelloshot said:
I cannot wrap my head around nofollow links. Of course I understand that it tells google to not count the link toward PR or whatever, but what I do not understand is why it might be beneficial at all. Sure, someone might click on the link and find the website, creating organic traffic, but that hardily counts for anything.

Doing an internet search just gives vague reasons for why nofollow links are beneficial. And yet SER and Scrapebox blast them in the form of blog comments. So they must have a real purpose, or else they would not have this ability... right?

Seriously, no BS, do nofollow links do anything?
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They give diversity as the other members said, but they are still HYPERLINKS you know, so they have to count for something.

NoFollow is just a tag, it is up to the search engine company to decide what its worth is. It isn't like there is a global consortium that oversees search engines to make sure NoFollow links aren't counted as link juice ;)
 
asap1 said:
Nofollow links are useless if you ask me even if its from google.com

Some say they give your site "authority"

I say they are useless.
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Yes, nofollow links are a JOKE.

Wikipedia nofollow links are also bad. I removed my links from Wikipedia because Wiki scraper sites get set up all the time and some of those have DF links! So basically what you get is a bunch of DF links from spam scraper sites. Google fanboy nerds on productforums say that Googlebot is super smart and ignores these types of sites. What a load of bullsh*tters, the crawler is dumb and still gets tricked on a daily basis by blackhat tactics, still indexes some pure scraped content etc. How can they say things which are blatantly and obviously not true?

Removing my links from Wikipedia had ZERO impact whatsoever. One of my first sites had a Wiki link and still got slapped by algo updates left right and center... So much for passing authority and trust.

Never pay money for NF if your aim is to increase ranking, only ever take free ones. You could use them for referral traffic but it would have to be a perfect scenario to make the money viable. Many people here charge big for both DF and NF links on authority sites. Might as just get DF then you get power/authority as well as referral traffic.
 
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wblteam said:
In a natural link profile a site gets links from variety of sources, no pattern of anchor text, deep page links , home page links, do follow links and no follow links. Google likes natural link profile. If you get no-follow links it will not help to rank directly. It helps indirectly to create some good impression to Google.
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This pretty much answers the question.
 
How do i know if i can place a do-f-ollw link on a website?
 
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