no follow tag and its impact on SEO

July 31st, 2010 | by admin |


www.thinkseer.com – No follows are all the rage, people are always asking me if they should no follow everything on their site for SEO. Or the fact that wikipedia, Twitter, Youtube, etc uses no-follows, and if that should keep them from having their URLs there.

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  1. 17 Responses to “no follow tag and its impact on SEO”

  2. By aoclarkejr on Jul 31, 2010 | Reply

    Nofollow is pointless…Just checkout your inbound on yahoo. Sure they are “nofollow” but this doesn’t mean they are “nocrawler” =)

  3. By DaveWilliamsJr on Jul 31, 2010 | Reply

    very good information, nice job

  4. By wilreynolds on Jul 31, 2010 | Reply

    @scott231us – entirely TRUE! Thanks for the update, I’ll add an annotation to this video.

  5. By scott231us on Jul 31, 2010 | Reply

    This is outdated.. Nofollow links don’t do squat now..

  6. By nikomaster12 on Jul 31, 2010 | Reply

    I believe nofollow tag is like a flag, where the search engine may determine if the link is a valid vote or not. If search engines are that good ranking pages, they might be capable of analyze the link and to determine if is a relevant link and a quality site. Well, that is what I would do if I were the search engine designer.

  7. By wilreynolds on Jul 31, 2010 | Reply

    no follow the “dumb” pages for sure when attempting to sculpt internal link juice flow.

  8. By wilreynolds on Aug 1, 2010 | Reply

    It would be great, but I can image Matt would say, go get good links regardless of the no follow, just build a good site, you know.

  9. By HOWTOtony on Aug 1, 2010 | Reply

    how do you handle no follows when sculpting and molding the site your creating non-blog)?

    should I no follow as the dumb page ie: about-us, history, links page

  10. By goldsteinmedia on Aug 1, 2010 | Reply

    Very infomative and insightful. I think it would be stupid of Google to ignore great content because of the nofollow but nailing Matt Cutts down on that point might be hard all the same! :-D

  11. By wilreynolds on Aug 1, 2010 | Reply

    Yeah, not to mention, I think the links do still have seo value in certain instances.

  12. By wilreynolds on Aug 1, 2010 | Reply

    You got it! Thanks for the kind words!

  13. By YunTraining on Aug 1, 2010 | Reply

    excellent points. having links weather no follow or not are still important to drive traffic to your sites

  14. By japroctor on Aug 1, 2010 | Reply

    Hi excellent videos, I have just come across you in my adventure to improve my views on you tube thanks for some excellent information regards John

  15. By aminozuur on Aug 1, 2010 | Reply

    It does, indeed. I like that you learn us to think for ourselfs what makes the most sense when it comes to Google’s factors (instead of blindly practice what we read about SEO on the internet) . More of these videos are always welcome.

  16. By wilreynolds on Aug 1, 2010 | Reply

    You got it! Just makes sense that it has some value right?

  17. By aminozuur on Aug 1, 2010 | Reply

    Thanks! This is exactly the way i felt about the nofollow tag. I also felt that Google perhaps gives more points to certain nofollowlinks on certain websites. I think a link on Youtube is higher in the hierarchy then just some link in a blogcomment.

  18. By nealg2g on Aug 1, 2010 | Reply

    Short and sweet!

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