About Nofollow Links

[susival]

I read a little about nofollow links but I still can't understand it's use. I would really love if someone here can explain it for me in a clearer way, since I just know it's a SEO practice in order to prevent spam (right?). I was wandering if it's an attribute you put on your links or you can configure it in your blog in order links there are automatically catalogued as nofollow. Isn't it supposed to be a good thing that search engines take this links into account?

[Skolor]

Its because you only get so much authority. Think of it this way: You get 20 links from sites which each have 1 authority, and only link to you. This gives you 20 authority. Now, lets say you link to 5 sites, each of them would get 4 authority from you. Now, lets say one of those links is a nofollow link. Then, the other 4 sites you link to will get 5 authority instead of 4.


Essentially its used to make the other links more important.

[Bloggeries]

I could be wrong but I *BELIEVE* nofollow is strictly a google thing. That being said for yahoo and live it should still pass strength on however their algorithms are setup.

[susival]

I think it started with google but yahoo and livemsn are working the same way, still I don't understand quite well. If I put a certain HTML code all the links in my webpage or my comments will be nofollow links? If I do so, woudn't that be
counterproductive? The only use this has is avoiding spammers?

[Skolor]

nofollow - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia


Yahoo and Ask.com ignore it. MSN and Google use it.

[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.

[susival]

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 guess that's the better thing to do
thx for the answers ^^

[rjleaman]

Originally Posted by EverythingEverywhere

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

I like your outlook - it's a mark of a large spirit, for a person to go out of his way to help the little guy.

[legendary11]

nofollow was basicly employed becuase google carnt handle advertisements and becuase they want to stop such thigns as paid links and blgo sponsoring links used for those before mentioned should be no follow as they should only be for traffic reasons

[narendrasv]

nofollow link are not considered by the search engines!