About Nofollow Links

[flashgordon]

I would tend to disagree with some about NoFollow. I don't think Google completely ignores them as they claim they do, but only awards partial credit. So if they give you 1 point for a DoFollow, they only give you .25 for a NoFollow. I have no evidence other then circumstantial, but I've seen sites crawl up the SERPs slowly that have both Do and NoFollow links pointing to them.

[Strongbow]

Originally Posted by EverythingEverywhere

I use nofollow for all large, corporate websites I link to. That includes Wikipedia (which uses nofollow for all of their outgoing links, so you might as well do it back to them), Flickr, etc.

I save my link juice for smaller sites and people I have had contact with personally, and also for my internal pages.

I have modified some WordPress plugins to auto-nofollow every link from Flickr and Wikipedia.

That is probably the best course of action to take without a shadow of a doubt.

[EverythingEverywhere]

I link to WIkipedia and Flickr extensively, so using nofollow has really helped me with Google. When I nofollowed everything from Wikipedia and Flickr (which and multiple links on hundreds of pages), my search rank increased, I assume because my internal pages were all ranked higher.

[IronBlogger]

I usually do not use no-follow links on my website, except for maybe affiliate links and the such.