Comments on: Do Nofollow Links Count – Redux

By: The Domain Naming Dude

The Domain Naming Dude — Sun, 14 Feb 2010 12:56:46 +0000

Yes, I’ve noticed the same benefits from “nofollow” links. ALL links are good. Plus, a good comment can also be a lead generator as well as establish authority and credibility. Plus it’s fun to just participate, which is a personal benefit much overlooked in the hyper SEO mindset.

By: Pariloto

Pariloto — Tue, 12 Jan 2010 19:29:46 +0000

Thanks a lot for this study, i’ll just ignore the nofollow tag from now on..

By: Covek Bez

Covek Bez — Tue, 25 Aug 2009 01:16:12 +0000

I believe that some links are better than none. When I first started creating my website, and link-building, I commented on some blogs that I was reading before I even knew about creating my own website. I knew that they were “nofollow”, but they still helped out my website when they ranked. I'm in the affiliate marketing Niche, so I don't know if it's just the quality of my website, or if I was lucky and received a good amount of traffic. I agree with you on the comment where you said that something is better than nothing. It's always great to have your anchor links out there.

By: Dallas Web Design

Dallas Web Design — Mon, 24 Aug 2009 04:15:48 +0000

Are you sure about this? So they create link juice but you did not mention if it is less or equal to a regular link. Whats the point in everyone using nofollow then if it does not do its purpose? I really confused about he whole thing. I had just finished a project getting ranking under a very extremely competitive keyword and it took over 1200 backlinks to achieve it and I did not post a backlink on any site with less than a 3 PR. Also I skipped every site with nofollow tags. I wounder if it would have taken less than 1200 links to reach our goal if nofollow would have came into paly. Because most of the good sites that carry a lot of weight you can bet have nofollow. Just doesnt make since,but then again nothing with Google every does.

By: Megaupload Premium Account

Megaupload Premium Account — Tue, 18 Aug 2009 23:24:43 +0000

well, i have to tell that it was what i always suspected. i made the website wich i link here not many time ago, and in the same day i put it online i inserted a link in my other blog wich is nofollow and guess what… next day i had 3 pages indexed in Google.

Explain that SEO masters… also… how can i after 3 weeks be in G first page for my main keyword with only one dofollow link or 2 maybe and if they are 2, i can say they are from the same website just from different pages.

Do all the testing you want. after all i'm going to post the link here and the keyword i use.

By: herniated disc nyc

herniated disc nyc — Tue, 21 Jul 2009 23:40:35 +0000

Great post. I’ve been wondering this for a while and whether or not all the hard work actually pays off if someone has the no follow attribute turned on in there blog.

Thanks!

Dr. Sadovnik

By: Spray Booth

Spray Booth — Sun, 19 Jul 2009 05:28:06 +0000

great test michelle!!

here’s my take… people should stop doing their nutz over nofollow / dofollow. google is heavily assessing on links coming from broad social contribution, ie blog comments, videos, web 2 properties, bookmarks, directories, photo sharing, social networks and the list goes on.

the point… be active in ALL of it and ignore what everyone says about nofollow — just get LINKS!!!

the fact is the only reason I commented here was.

1/. I like Michelle
2/. To get a link with anchor text

I did not check if she has enabled dofollow on this blog — personally i don’t care.

Cheers,

Matty T

By: Jody

Jody — Fri, 10 Jul 2009 17:24:55 +0000

In the spirit of this article, I thought it would be appropriate to leave this comment with a URL and see if my traffic increases. Of course, it looks like other people already did the same here. Anyway, I did find the post to be interesting, and it helped me to think about nofollow in ways I hadn’t really explored it before.

By: Malta

Malta — Tue, 02 Jun 2009 14:56:11 +0000

I agree that that nofollow links do help in ranking a keyword, what I’m not sure of yet is the importance being given by Google to the nofollow link. I believe that Google gives more importance to dofollow links than nofollow links.

By: milly

milly — Fri, 22 May 2009 16:23:10 +0000

I’m in the ‘all links have value’ camp too. Firstly, because google isn’t the only search engine, but mainly because I believe any link to your site is a good thing and must count for something.

By: Scott Galvin

Scott Galvin — Sun, 17 May 2009 10:58:00 +0000

I would guess that nofollow does pass some value, how much is obviously not clear, which is messed up since Google created it and told everyone to use it when they didn’t want a link to pass value. But maybe what is more important for nofollow is that a site will not be penalized if they link to a “bad neighborhood” as long as they use nofollow.

By: sports discussion

sports discussion — Tue, 12 May 2009 04:52:26 +0000

Hi there, I think posting to dofollow and nofollow blogs has its own benefits. If you are looking for a dofollow blogs and posting comment to it, Google will see at as “unnatural” because all your links are coming from a dofollow blogs or forums only.

By: Wallpapers,widescreen wallpapers

Wallpapers,widescreen wallpapers — Thu, 30 Apr 2009 05:23:05 +0000

I use comment hut as well and is a valuable tool to find word press blog that accept comments. I avoided the no follow higher PR sites, but from now on I will comment on those sites as well. I think it still makes sense to make finding “do follow” blogs a higher priority if whatever tool or method you use has the capability

By: Henri from Colon Health Advice

Henri from Colon Health Advice — Sat, 11 Apr 2009 15:45:59 +0000

I just found you and I love you already! Going through your Social Media Daily and it is rockin’ (so far)

By: martin

martin — Tue, 07 Apr 2009 03:45:08 +0000

Hi Michelle,

Should I post to forums with high index page but the actual page for putting links has no PR at all? Will google still consider this as a boost to my PR?

By: Alex Wrobel

Alex Wrobel — Sun, 29 Mar 2009 00:44:37 +0000

Good study. I had the same feeling that dofollow comments still counted to an extent. A lot of my good links were nofollow and they still helped me out.

By: Anhdung

Anhdung — Mon, 16 Mar 2009 23:31:17 +0000

Hello Michelle,

would be nice to have someone experiment new stuff? I love it!….just found your site and scan around c what I can learn from you. I used to stay away “no-follow” site and forum for only one reason and you know what that is….? Hell spend five minute wouldn’t be hurt.I give it a try.:) thanks again.

By: Pregnancy

Pregnancy — Mon, 02 Mar 2009 05:54:33 +0000

My conclusion is that you have two things going on with a link, the anchor text and the pagerank. My guess is no pagerank is passed with no-follow, but… the anchor text is still picked up and that is why search engines rank you, not pagerank. As said in a previous comment, stop following the green bar. I am interested in finding out if this test still holds true since this post was is over a year old. Thanks.

By: bespoke cakes

bespoke cakes — Thu, 19 Feb 2009 02:26:24 +0000

I’m totally flexed, I’m going to go with nofollow links still count. Like sumone said above if u leave a good comment you’ll get clicks anyway. there are 100s of SEs out there so if you have loads of nofollow links you will still get a bit of traffic from those combined.

By: Chef Recipe Videos

Chef Recipe Videos — Fri, 06 Feb 2009 08:31:34 +0000

Interesting experiment, and it confirmed my suspicions! Cheers!