7:54 AM
chethan
Another factor that affects links is whether or not they have
the nofollow link element applied to them. The nofollow link
attribute was created to tell Google to ignore certain links. In
essence these would be links to sites that you aren't
completely comfortable linking out to. Google states that the
nofollow tag should be used for links that are paid or lead to
untrusted content. Also, they are a little vague about how they
crawl nofollow links. They say that they generally do not, but
they do sometimes :/ (I know right?) So what does this mean for
our backlinking?
Google states very clearly that nofollow links do NOT pass
anchor text or PR. Matt Cutts, Google's outspoken web spam
engineer, has also said plainly that there is no SEO benefit in
a nofollow link. He might have said that in an effort to slow
down people spamming sites/pages with nofollow links, or he
might have been completely truthful. We can't really tell, so
I'll let you be the judge.
So do we care or not if a backlink is nofollow? Here's a
logical way to decide which links will be worth your time:
When blog commenting, if you come across a blog, and all the
comments are "nofollowed" ask yourself this: Will I get
traffic from this link? If the answer is yes then post a
comment, if not, you might want to just move on. Don't forget -
the whole point of doing SEO is to get targeted traffic, so why
would you ever turn down targeted traffic just because a link is
nofollow? I will still leave comments on blogs that use nofollow
on comment links, but only if there are signs of decent traffic
on the blog.
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3 comments:
Very nice article. I usually comment of dofollow blogs and I get some decent traffic to my blog.
Hi thanx for shring this difference with us.I want to make some of my blog as do follow
Ya I also always prefer do follow..But according to me 'no follow' will drive traffic to my site..
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