Quote: A few months ago we shared the poll results showing 50% nofollow their internal links for PageRank flow. So a month ago, I posted a poll asking how many people nofollow external links.
Nofollowing external links is thought to be a way of "hoarding" your PageRank or just being very careful with who you link to. So we asked in our poll the percentage of links nofollowed on your sites, on average.
We had 208 responses and 40% said they don't nofollow any of their external links. Here is the break down:
40% said Non Of My External Links NoFollowed
20% said only 25% Of External Links NoFollowed
15% said 50% Of Of External Links NoFollowed
13% said 75%+ Of External Links NoFollowed
8% said 100% Of External Links NoFollowed
There were some "other answers."
Are you surprised by any of these results? Source: http://www.seroundtable.com/archives/022937.html I guess that whether or not you go to nofollow depends on how attractive your site is to spammers who can insert their spammy links on your site so I don't think you can conclude much from the results unless they are broken down by some kind of category in terms of what kind of website it is (like blog, forum, merchant etc.). There is a forum where a guy tested progress with multiple sites, on one using nofollow for almost every external link (excluding link trades) and on the other following every link. And there was no difference. Nofollow-ing your links is ok for precaution, but it does nothing big. Quote: Originally Posted by stevemarino I guess that whether or not you go to nofollow depends on how attractive your site is to spammers who can insert their spammy links on your site so I don't think you can conclude much from the results unless they are broken down by some kind of category in terms of what kind of website it is (like blog, forum, merchant etc.). I agree. Even if you offer them nofollow links they wouldn't mind as long as they can have the opportunity to post a link.
Quote: Originally Posted by theentry There is a forum where a guy tested progress with multiple sites, on one using nofollow for almost every external link (excluding link trades) and on the other following every link. And there was no difference. Nofollow-ing your links is ok for precaution, but it does nothing big. Well that's because Google already prevented this kind of technique. Before webmasters use nofollow to block other links from getting link juice and authority and pass it to the other chosen links that they like to gain more link juice. People need to stop placing so much faith in PageRank! Where your site appears in the organic ranking in a search engine is the most important for SEO. PR is (and, IMHO, was only in the early days of the Web) no longer useful. Hi,
In my own experiences, making blogs dofollow would be really helpful for new small blogs. This would be a nice channel for them in increasing traffics. Also, honestly, almost all big authority blogs would be nofollow after they have owned a really nice PR.
thanks, Making links nofollow does not hoard link juice! That link gets its share of the link juice, but instead of being passed over, the juice is just thrown away. True. Sad... but true. Quote: Originally Posted by C0ldf1re Making links nofollow does not hoard link juice! That link gets its share of the link juice, but instead of being passed over, the juice is just thrown away. True. Sad... but true. Hm interesting point, maybe got an url for an article where you read it? Im not suprised! But when you can find follow links why do you write with nofollow?
Mine 90% are dofollow Quote: Originally Posted by theentry Hm interesting point, maybe got an url for an article where you read it? Google search matt cutts pagerank sculpting
we dont nofollow anything, if its good enough to get linked to, it gets juice. I would never bother to explicitly nofollow any internal links in any of my blogposts.
Wordpress/Joomla/Drupal have all links pointing internally as dofollow by default.
Tags and categories can be nofollowed however but just for the sake of keeping the link limit within a page within 100 for the searchbots.
As far as nofollowing external links is concerned, it's sometimes a must considering the 'bad neighborhood' issue that can result in a SERP penalty.
That's basically the main reason many people do not bother to strip the default nofollow tags from links within comments of the major blogging platforms like wordpress, blogger, etc... It is true that dofollow links are more effective but it doesn't mean that nofollow links have no weightage. Definitely they will increase your quality linking if you do not spam. So I prefer both for my SEO projects. Hi,
Yeah nice article. most of the time when we posted and submitted in site we don't know its do-follow, no- follow. Quote: Originally Posted by C0ldf1re Making links nofollow does not hoard link juice! That link gets its share of the link juice, but instead of being passed over, the juice is just thrown away. True. Sad... but true. True. All the link juice is just thrown away once you make the link nofollow.
But you can't just ignore the importance of nofollow links. very great analysis indeed on cant ignore nofollow links simply
Nofollowing external links is thought to be a way of "hoarding" your PageRank or just being very careful with who you link to. So we asked in our poll the percentage of links nofollowed on your sites, on average.
We had 208 responses and 40% said they don't nofollow any of their external links. Here is the break down:
40% said Non Of My External Links NoFollowed
20% said only 25% Of External Links NoFollowed
15% said 50% Of Of External Links NoFollowed
13% said 75%+ Of External Links NoFollowed
8% said 100% Of External Links NoFollowed
There were some "other answers."
Are you surprised by any of these results? Source: http://www.seroundtable.com/archives/022937.html I guess that whether or not you go to nofollow depends on how attractive your site is to spammers who can insert their spammy links on your site so I don't think you can conclude much from the results unless they are broken down by some kind of category in terms of what kind of website it is (like blog, forum, merchant etc.). There is a forum where a guy tested progress with multiple sites, on one using nofollow for almost every external link (excluding link trades) and on the other following every link. And there was no difference. Nofollow-ing your links is ok for precaution, but it does nothing big. Quote: Originally Posted by stevemarino I guess that whether or not you go to nofollow depends on how attractive your site is to spammers who can insert their spammy links on your site so I don't think you can conclude much from the results unless they are broken down by some kind of category in terms of what kind of website it is (like blog, forum, merchant etc.). I agree. Even if you offer them nofollow links they wouldn't mind as long as they can have the opportunity to post a link.
Quote: Originally Posted by theentry There is a forum where a guy tested progress with multiple sites, on one using nofollow for almost every external link (excluding link trades) and on the other following every link. And there was no difference. Nofollow-ing your links is ok for precaution, but it does nothing big. Well that's because Google already prevented this kind of technique. Before webmasters use nofollow to block other links from getting link juice and authority and pass it to the other chosen links that they like to gain more link juice. People need to stop placing so much faith in PageRank! Where your site appears in the organic ranking in a search engine is the most important for SEO. PR is (and, IMHO, was only in the early days of the Web) no longer useful. Hi,
In my own experiences, making blogs dofollow would be really helpful for new small blogs. This would be a nice channel for them in increasing traffics. Also, honestly, almost all big authority blogs would be nofollow after they have owned a really nice PR.
thanks, Making links nofollow does not hoard link juice! That link gets its share of the link juice, but instead of being passed over, the juice is just thrown away. True. Sad... but true. Quote: Originally Posted by C0ldf1re Making links nofollow does not hoard link juice! That link gets its share of the link juice, but instead of being passed over, the juice is just thrown away. True. Sad... but true. Hm interesting point, maybe got an url for an article where you read it? Im not suprised! But when you can find follow links why do you write with nofollow?
Mine 90% are dofollow Quote: Originally Posted by theentry Hm interesting point, maybe got an url for an article where you read it? Google search matt cutts pagerank sculpting
we dont nofollow anything, if its good enough to get linked to, it gets juice. I would never bother to explicitly nofollow any internal links in any of my blogposts.
Wordpress/Joomla/Drupal have all links pointing internally as dofollow by default.
Tags and categories can be nofollowed however but just for the sake of keeping the link limit within a page within 100 for the searchbots.
As far as nofollowing external links is concerned, it's sometimes a must considering the 'bad neighborhood' issue that can result in a SERP penalty.
That's basically the main reason many people do not bother to strip the default nofollow tags from links within comments of the major blogging platforms like wordpress, blogger, etc... It is true that dofollow links are more effective but it doesn't mean that nofollow links have no weightage. Definitely they will increase your quality linking if you do not spam. So I prefer both for my SEO projects. Hi,
Yeah nice article. most of the time when we posted and submitted in site we don't know its do-follow, no- follow. Quote: Originally Posted by C0ldf1re Making links nofollow does not hoard link juice! That link gets its share of the link juice, but instead of being passed over, the juice is just thrown away. True. Sad... but true. True. All the link juice is just thrown away once you make the link nofollow.
But you can't just ignore the importance of nofollow links. very great analysis indeed on cant ignore nofollow links simply