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Hello All,
I've been reading up on the attribute "No Follow", which appears to block SERPs from leaving a referenced link on one site to go off and crawl/index another that the said link would be referring to.
I noticed that sites that have back links to our own site still continue to generate solid traffic, even though their "No Follow" attribute is turned on, as a rule of those sites. I believe that since traffice continues to flow through, this means that even though a SERP doesn't "Follow" through and index the referred site the Page Rank is really not impacted because the referring site still has a live link to us and traffic continues to come from it.
Is this interpretation correct?
My Best,
Frank NO follow links do still generate a help in SERP, just maybe not as much as a normal follow.
Traffic generation is still the same regardless though You're right - a nofollow link can absolutely generate as much traffic as a dofollow link. For example, if you publish an article on a nofollow article directory, you may not get credit from Google, but your readers can still click on your link in the resource box, and head to your site.
Nofollow links are a normal part of link building. Every good site is going to have some nofollow links, In fact, if you have zero nofollow links, it can actually look a little fishy to Google; they may think you're not building links naturally (i.e. buying links). I agree. Nofollow is part of your natural link profile when done for SEO. Even though no PR is passed it's still good to get some nofollow links. But don't go overboard and start comment spamming.
And again nofollow links can be good for traffic. Not only with articles, but also on social sites such as Facebook, Digg, Twitter, etc.
Quote: Originally Posted by nicolebeckett
You're right - a nofollow link can absolutely generate as much traffic as a dofollow link. For example, if you publish an article on a nofollow article directory, you may not get credit from Google, but your readers can still click on your link in the resource box, and head to your site.
Nofollow links are a normal part of link building. Every good site is going to have some nofollow links, In fact, if you have zero nofollow links, it can actually look a little fishy to Google; they may think you're not building links naturally (i.e. buying links). No follow tag and traffic are tow different thing . how many traffic flow from no follow is not related to no follow attribute . for good back link you must have link dofollow . i think that is good, but if you have back link form domain .edu. nofollow or dofollow is good You should separate dofollow/nofollow from traffic creation since they are generally separate things. Dofollow links can aid in generating traffic in the longer term; nofollow links (at good sites like Digg) can aid in generating traffic in the shorter term. However, you should make sure you don't spent a lot of time creating nofollow links that will give you little/no traffic. This works for me just the same. I got solid and more positive inquiries about our properties on our "nofollow" links. What is important for us is that those inquiries are converted into a sale. But we also work on improving our backlinks by posting on "dofollow" sites to rank higher in SERPs. Both are actually important. "NoFollow" will give you traffic, "DoFollow" will give you Page Rank I did some strong research on this recently and condohunter gets a pretty good shot at the definition I am going to give. Nofollow basically stops the flow of PageRank or "link juice". However there are times that search engine spiders follow these links and give you a string pr boost if especially if you are being linked from .edu or .gov TLDs. Now it is also smart to use nofollow on your website so you can stop the flow of your homepage's pagerank to the pages that you don't want indexed like an about page or contact us. you are right, both links are useful. We can generate traffic from both links. Most of search engine don't follow no-follow links but it can generate traffic. Do-follow links help in keyword SERP.
I've been reading up on the attribute "No Follow", which appears to block SERPs from leaving a referenced link on one site to go off and crawl/index another that the said link would be referring to.
I noticed that sites that have back links to our own site still continue to generate solid traffic, even though their "No Follow" attribute is turned on, as a rule of those sites. I believe that since traffice continues to flow through, this means that even though a SERP doesn't "Follow" through and index the referred site the Page Rank is really not impacted because the referring site still has a live link to us and traffic continues to come from it.
Is this interpretation correct?
My Best,
Frank NO follow links do still generate a help in SERP, just maybe not as much as a normal follow.
Traffic generation is still the same regardless though You're right - a nofollow link can absolutely generate as much traffic as a dofollow link. For example, if you publish an article on a nofollow article directory, you may not get credit from Google, but your readers can still click on your link in the resource box, and head to your site.
Nofollow links are a normal part of link building. Every good site is going to have some nofollow links, In fact, if you have zero nofollow links, it can actually look a little fishy to Google; they may think you're not building links naturally (i.e. buying links). I agree. Nofollow is part of your natural link profile when done for SEO. Even though no PR is passed it's still good to get some nofollow links. But don't go overboard and start comment spamming.
And again nofollow links can be good for traffic. Not only with articles, but also on social sites such as Facebook, Digg, Twitter, etc.
Quote: Originally Posted by nicolebeckett
You're right - a nofollow link can absolutely generate as much traffic as a dofollow link. For example, if you publish an article on a nofollow article directory, you may not get credit from Google, but your readers can still click on your link in the resource box, and head to your site.Nofollow links are a normal part of link building. Every good site is going to have some nofollow links, In fact, if you have zero nofollow links, it can actually look a little fishy to Google; they may think you're not building links naturally (i.e. buying links). No follow tag and traffic are tow different thing . how many traffic flow from no follow is not related to no follow attribute . for good back link you must have link dofollow . i think that is good, but if you have back link form domain .edu. nofollow or dofollow is good You should separate dofollow/nofollow from traffic creation since they are generally separate things. Dofollow links can aid in generating traffic in the longer term; nofollow links (at good sites like Digg) can aid in generating traffic in the shorter term. However, you should make sure you don't spent a lot of time creating nofollow links that will give you little/no traffic. This works for me just the same. I got solid and more positive inquiries about our properties on our "nofollow" links. What is important for us is that those inquiries are converted into a sale. But we also work on improving our backlinks by posting on "dofollow" sites to rank higher in SERPs. Both are actually important. "NoFollow" will give you traffic, "DoFollow" will give you Page Rank I did some strong research on this recently and condohunter gets a pretty good shot at the definition I am going to give. Nofollow basically stops the flow of PageRank or "link juice". However there are times that search engine spiders follow these links and give you a string pr boost if especially if you are being linked from .edu or .gov TLDs. Now it is also smart to use nofollow on your website so you can stop the flow of your homepage's pagerank to the pages that you don't want indexed like an about page or contact us. you are right, both links are useful. We can generate traffic from both links. Most of search engine don't follow no-follow links but it can generate traffic. Do-follow links help in keyword SERP.